...Lydia H. Liu Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Beijing Sojourners in New York: Postsocialism and the Question of Ideology in Global Media Culture Lydia H. Liu The television serial Beijing Sojourners in New York was aired on the CCTV...

.... In the absence of hard evidence from the informal “survival” sectors, the article draws on ethnographic and anecdotal evidence to explain the lack of political will in enforcing IPR laws. Taking into account the myriad ground-level practices around media forms and platforms, the concept of global media...

... media in the Hong Kong popular culture, are concerned with new theoretical development in the global media. We take the operational notion of “thingification of media,” as Scott Lash and Celia Lury proposed in their book Global Cultural Industry (2007), in our core analysis of these transformations...

... media coverage, and also in the particular local and transnational contexts of Shanghai, a rising global city with a large resident foreign population, including the largest Japanese population in any city in the world outside Japan. The interpretations of the protest thus developed across a series...

... this so-called third world country up to speed with pop trends, Idol reveals the neocolonial processes and the culturalist terms under which global modernity is engendered in late capitalism. The author contends that global mass media — seen as free flowing, immaterial, and unbounded — reinforces...

... in globalization. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 shanzhai branding WTO-era China new media intellectual property rights globalization From Bandit Cell Phones to Branding the Nation: Three Moments of Shanzhai in WTO-­era China Fan Yang Introduction The year...

... of the Moving Image, Marg, and South Asian Journal. Manishita Dass is a senior lecturer in film and global media at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Outside the Lettered City: Cinema, Modernity, and the Public...

... the provincial confines of media theory to a more global, materialist trajectory. This article connects the televised broadcast of Singapore’s independence in 1965 to early enthusiasm for radio’s disembodied voice during the colonial, interwar period. The discussion then examines how Amir Muhammad’s 2007...

... of local languages in local media to assert the identities of local communities, which have been insufficiently represented in a single Standard Mandarin. Finally, on one hand, this essay recognizes a dialectical relationship between the global and the local, which do not necessarily pose as cultural...

...; Health, Culture and Society; Global Media and China; Interventions: A Journal for Postcolonial Studies; Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art; JOMEC Journal; and Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research. He is coeditor of Queer/ Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism, and Media...

... students studying in the West used e-­mail and fax to influence the global media agenda.30 One can also trace back to the generation of Lu Xun in the late Qing Dynasty for a similar role played by overseas students. What’s new in the more recent...

...." Arjun Appadurai has argued that the transnational media is now a per- manent fixture in the global cultural economy.10 This is an economy, he tells us, that has unleashed the imagination. The imagination is central to all forms of agency...

... of the transnational movement of children reflect both broader neoliberal ideologies of family and selfhood and late socialist anxieties about class differentiation. Child welfare professionals, the media, and casual observers in Ho Chi Minh City explain rising adoption rates as due to the desperation, ignorance...

... not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Sino-Japanese history digital media online pedagogy global academy visual culture Visualizing Cultures controversy nationalism censorship open content digital humanities Guest Editors’ Introduction Unpacking a Controversy: National Histories...

... with sexed imageries produced by various media. Although Filipino “vaginal commodities” — feminized and sexualized bodies exploited in the unequal global market economy — are today found in all corners of the globe,2...

... as a dignified all-­male group outing.”1 In her study of photographs of people facing imminent death, Barbie Zelizer interrogates the moral ambiguities of visual representations and their unsettling power in the age of global media. She shows...

... November 2019 716 The resolution of any residual tension between liberalization and Hindu nationalism might be found in the mass media representations of the new Indian woman of the 1990s, who was educated, confident, career oriented, and modern, and who could compete in the global arena but was also...

... as modern- ization and internationalization.3 Under the rubric of globalization, local and global media (backed by state and corporate capital, respectively) natu- ralize hypermasculinity as part and parcel of the economic development...

... and the development of a global media system.”5 To grasp how this premise may have led to theories of “global cul- ture” one must recall the preference in postmodernism for fragmentation and dissension: the globalization concept undermines cruder...

... would Lili choose not to side instead with youth, fashion-conscious peo- ple, metropolitans, global media and the fashion industry, globally respected fashion standards, and powerful global discourses? The direction of resistance put up by older...