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Leaving China : media, migration, and transnational imagination, Wanning Sun

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This fascinating book offers fresh insight into contemporary China and the Chinese diaspora experience and consciousness through a lively and innovative examination of media old and new. Exploring the relationship between media, mobility, and the formation of transnational subjectivities, Wanning Sun shows how media production and consumption within China and among Chinese diasporic communities contributes to a changing sense of self, place, space, and nation. Writing with verve and understanding, Sun draws on a close reading of print, film, television, internet, and other new media technologi
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (x, 243 pages).
Contents
  • World Social Change; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: Leaving China; 1 -- Going Home or Going Places: Television in the Village; ERMO AND TELEVISION: TAKING ISSUE WITH SOME READINGS; ERMO AND THE CITY: AN ALTERNATIVE READING; ZHANG YIMOU AND TELEVISION: THE POLITICS OF COMPASSION; RURAL WOMEN AND TELEVISION: ON HOW TO GET ON TV; BETWEEN THE VILLAGE AND THE CITY: DEPARTURES AND ARRIVALS; NOTES; 2 -- Going Abroad or Staying Home: Cinema, Fantasy, and the World City; TO GO OR NOT TO GO: A "STORYBOARD" OF COLLECTIVE FANTASY
  • PHOBIA, PANIC, AND CLARA LAW'S FAREWELL CHINATO GO OR NOT TO GO: THE STORY OF THE ABSENT AMERICA; BE THERE OR BE SQUARE: SUNNY AND FUNNY LOS ANGELES; DEPARTURE LOUNGE AND ARRIVAL HALL: GAPS IN TRANSNATIONAL IMAGINATION; NOTES; 3 -- Arriving at the Global City: Television Dramas and Spatial Imagination; THE VISUAL VERSUS THE VERBAL; THE AERIAL VERSUS THE PEDESTRIAN: SPATIAL CONFIGURATION OF THE CITY; PLACE, TIME, AND NEW SUBJECTIVITLES; METAPHOR, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM; NOTES; 4 -- Haggling in the Margin: Videotapes and Paradiasporic Audiences; MOTION AND MEDIATION
  • VOLUNTARY INTERPELLATIONHAGGLERS AND RENTERS; ACTIVE HAGGLING: OUR LIVES AS OVERSEAS STUDENTS; NOTES; 5 -- Fantasizing the Homeland: The Internet, Memory, and Exilic Longings; FANTASIES OF THE HOMELAND; CND-A VIRTUAL COMMUNAL HOME; "THE SPECTACLE OF DYING"-THE NANJING MASSACRE MEMORIAL; AWKWARD HISTORY AND POSTNATIONAL IMAGINARY; CYBERSPACE AND DIASPORIC PUBLIC SPHERE?; NOTES; 6 -- Eating Food and Telling Stories: From Home(land) to Homepage; SENSORY MEMORY AND GOING HOME; EATING IN BETWEEN; MOUTH TO MOUSE-YUM CHA AS A METAPHOR; THE EXILED EATER, CONSUMPTION, AND TRANSNATIONAL IMAGINATION
  • NOTES7 -- Fragmenting the National Time-Space: Media Events in the Satellite Age; MEDIA EVENTS, POLITICAL SPECTACLES, AND NATIONAL TIME; MEDIA STORIES, UNOFFICIAL TIME, AND "REGULAR IMAGININGS"; CONVERGENCE OR DIVERGENCE?; NOTES; 8 -- Chinese in the Global Village: Olympics and an Electronic Nation; NATION, STATE, AND MEDIA EVENT; "PING BO" SPIRIT, SEMIOTIC OVERDETERMINATION, AND CHINESE VIEWERS; DIY CITIZENSHIP: WATCHING THE GAMES IN AUSTRALIA; "MY PATRIOTISM IS INSTINCTIVE"; PERFORMING IDENTITY; ACCUMULATING NATIONAL CAPITAL; "NATIONALISM IS DANGEROUS"; "AUSTRALIA HAS NO CULTURE, HAS IT?"
  • TOWARD AN ELECTRONIC CHINESE NATION?NOTES; Conclusion: Toward a Transnational China?; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Isbn
9781461638780
Instance
Label
Leaving China : media, migration, and transnational imagination
Title
Leaving China
Title remainder
media, migration, and transnational imagination
Statement of responsibility
Wanning Sun
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
This fascinating book offers fresh insight into contemporary China and the Chinese diaspora experience and consciousness through a lively and innovative examination of media old and new. Exploring the relationship between media, mobility, and the formation of transnational subjectivities, Wanning Sun shows how media production and consumption within China and among Chinese diasporic communities contributes to a changing sense of self, place, space, and nation. Writing with verve and understanding, Sun draws on a close reading of print, film, television, internet, and other new media technologi
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digitized
Cataloging source
OCLCE
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1963-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Sun, Wanning
Dewey number
302.23/0951
Index
index present
LC call number
P92.C5
LC item number
S86 2002
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
World social change
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Mass media
  • China
  • Migration, Internal
  • Chinese
  • PSYCHOLOGY
  • Emigration and immigration
  • Mass media
  • Migration, Internal
  • China
  • Migratie (demografie)
  • Identiteit
  • Verbeelding
  • Massamedia
Label
Leaving China : media, migration, and transnational imagination, Wanning Sun
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Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • World Social Change; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: Leaving China; 1 -- Going Home or Going Places: Television in the Village; ERMO AND TELEVISION: TAKING ISSUE WITH SOME READINGS; ERMO AND THE CITY: AN ALTERNATIVE READING; ZHANG YIMOU AND TELEVISION: THE POLITICS OF COMPASSION; RURAL WOMEN AND TELEVISION: ON HOW TO GET ON TV; BETWEEN THE VILLAGE AND THE CITY: DEPARTURES AND ARRIVALS; NOTES; 2 -- Going Abroad or Staying Home: Cinema, Fantasy, and the World City; TO GO OR NOT TO GO: A "STORYBOARD" OF COLLECTIVE FANTASY
  • PHOBIA, PANIC, AND CLARA LAW'S FAREWELL CHINATO GO OR NOT TO GO: THE STORY OF THE ABSENT AMERICA; BE THERE OR BE SQUARE: SUNNY AND FUNNY LOS ANGELES; DEPARTURE LOUNGE AND ARRIVAL HALL: GAPS IN TRANSNATIONAL IMAGINATION; NOTES; 3 -- Arriving at the Global City: Television Dramas and Spatial Imagination; THE VISUAL VERSUS THE VERBAL; THE AERIAL VERSUS THE PEDESTRIAN: SPATIAL CONFIGURATION OF THE CITY; PLACE, TIME, AND NEW SUBJECTIVITLES; METAPHOR, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM; NOTES; 4 -- Haggling in the Margin: Videotapes and Paradiasporic Audiences; MOTION AND MEDIATION
  • VOLUNTARY INTERPELLATIONHAGGLERS AND RENTERS; ACTIVE HAGGLING: OUR LIVES AS OVERSEAS STUDENTS; NOTES; 5 -- Fantasizing the Homeland: The Internet, Memory, and Exilic Longings; FANTASIES OF THE HOMELAND; CND-A VIRTUAL COMMUNAL HOME; "THE SPECTACLE OF DYING"-THE NANJING MASSACRE MEMORIAL; AWKWARD HISTORY AND POSTNATIONAL IMAGINARY; CYBERSPACE AND DIASPORIC PUBLIC SPHERE?; NOTES; 6 -- Eating Food and Telling Stories: From Home(land) to Homepage; SENSORY MEMORY AND GOING HOME; EATING IN BETWEEN; MOUTH TO MOUSE-YUM CHA AS A METAPHOR; THE EXILED EATER, CONSUMPTION, AND TRANSNATIONAL IMAGINATION
  • NOTES7 -- Fragmenting the National Time-Space: Media Events in the Satellite Age; MEDIA EVENTS, POLITICAL SPECTACLES, AND NATIONAL TIME; MEDIA STORIES, UNOFFICIAL TIME, AND "REGULAR IMAGININGS"; CONVERGENCE OR DIVERGENCE?; NOTES; 8 -- Chinese in the Global Village: Olympics and an Electronic Nation; NATION, STATE, AND MEDIA EVENT; "PING BO" SPIRIT, SEMIOTIC OVERDETERMINATION, AND CHINESE VIEWERS; DIY CITIZENSHIP: WATCHING THE GAMES IN AUSTRALIA; "MY PATRIOTISM IS INSTINCTIVE"; PERFORMING IDENTITY; ACCUMULATING NATIONAL CAPITAL; "NATIONALISM IS DANGEROUS"; "AUSTRALIA HAS NO CULTURE, HAS IT?"
  • TOWARD AN ELECTRONIC CHINESE NATION?NOTES; Conclusion: Toward a Transnational China?; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Control code
606860652
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (x, 243 pages).
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781461638780
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)606860652
System details
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Label
Leaving China : media, migration, and transnational imagination, Wanning Sun
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • World Social Change; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: Leaving China; 1 -- Going Home or Going Places: Television in the Village; ERMO AND TELEVISION: TAKING ISSUE WITH SOME READINGS; ERMO AND THE CITY: AN ALTERNATIVE READING; ZHANG YIMOU AND TELEVISION: THE POLITICS OF COMPASSION; RURAL WOMEN AND TELEVISION: ON HOW TO GET ON TV; BETWEEN THE VILLAGE AND THE CITY: DEPARTURES AND ARRIVALS; NOTES; 2 -- Going Abroad or Staying Home: Cinema, Fantasy, and the World City; TO GO OR NOT TO GO: A "STORYBOARD" OF COLLECTIVE FANTASY
  • PHOBIA, PANIC, AND CLARA LAW'S FAREWELL CHINATO GO OR NOT TO GO: THE STORY OF THE ABSENT AMERICA; BE THERE OR BE SQUARE: SUNNY AND FUNNY LOS ANGELES; DEPARTURE LOUNGE AND ARRIVAL HALL: GAPS IN TRANSNATIONAL IMAGINATION; NOTES; 3 -- Arriving at the Global City: Television Dramas and Spatial Imagination; THE VISUAL VERSUS THE VERBAL; THE AERIAL VERSUS THE PEDESTRIAN: SPATIAL CONFIGURATION OF THE CITY; PLACE, TIME, AND NEW SUBJECTIVITLES; METAPHOR, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM; NOTES; 4 -- Haggling in the Margin: Videotapes and Paradiasporic Audiences; MOTION AND MEDIATION
  • VOLUNTARY INTERPELLATIONHAGGLERS AND RENTERS; ACTIVE HAGGLING: OUR LIVES AS OVERSEAS STUDENTS; NOTES; 5 -- Fantasizing the Homeland: The Internet, Memory, and Exilic Longings; FANTASIES OF THE HOMELAND; CND-A VIRTUAL COMMUNAL HOME; "THE SPECTACLE OF DYING"-THE NANJING MASSACRE MEMORIAL; AWKWARD HISTORY AND POSTNATIONAL IMAGINARY; CYBERSPACE AND DIASPORIC PUBLIC SPHERE?; NOTES; 6 -- Eating Food and Telling Stories: From Home(land) to Homepage; SENSORY MEMORY AND GOING HOME; EATING IN BETWEEN; MOUTH TO MOUSE-YUM CHA AS A METAPHOR; THE EXILED EATER, CONSUMPTION, AND TRANSNATIONAL IMAGINATION
  • NOTES7 -- Fragmenting the National Time-Space: Media Events in the Satellite Age; MEDIA EVENTS, POLITICAL SPECTACLES, AND NATIONAL TIME; MEDIA STORIES, UNOFFICIAL TIME, AND "REGULAR IMAGININGS"; CONVERGENCE OR DIVERGENCE?; NOTES; 8 -- Chinese in the Global Village: Olympics and an Electronic Nation; NATION, STATE, AND MEDIA EVENT; "PING BO" SPIRIT, SEMIOTIC OVERDETERMINATION, AND CHINESE VIEWERS; DIY CITIZENSHIP: WATCHING THE GAMES IN AUSTRALIA; "MY PATRIOTISM IS INSTINCTIVE"; PERFORMING IDENTITY; ACCUMULATING NATIONAL CAPITAL; "NATIONALISM IS DANGEROUS"; "AUSTRALIA HAS NO CULTURE, HAS IT?"
  • TOWARD AN ELECTRONIC CHINESE NATION?NOTES; Conclusion: Toward a Transnational China?; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Control code
606860652
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (x, 243 pages).
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781461638780
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)606860652
System details
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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