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ItemThe new migrant-led transformation of the Chinese community media in Australia(China Social Sciences Press ~ Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Chubanshe, 2017)Overseas Chinese media is an essential part of the international media system. Due to the close relationship between Australia and China and the huge population of Chinese Australians, overseas Chinese media is more typical in Australia than in other countries or regions. This research adopts a multi-methodology approach which combines long-term observations, interviews, and textual analyses. It seeks to examine the changes that resulted from the resumption of the significant immigration from the mainland China to Australia in the early 1990s, with the purpose to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Chinese mediascape in Australia from a political economic perspective. Specifically, the changing dynamics of the Chinese community media will be divided into three stages, which are the ‘re-establishment’ phase from the early 1990s to the late 1990s, the ‘diversification’ phase from the late 1990s to the late 2000s and the ‘transformation’ phase since the late 2000s. Factors such as the Sino-Australian relationship, the constitution of the Chinese Australians, economic activities of the Chinese community and technological globalisation will be considered when discussing the driving forces, characteristics, development patterns and typical cases of the Chinese community media in different stages
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ItemThe Australian Chinese community reshaped by two historical trends: A dual-embeddedness perspective(China Social Sciences Press ~ Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Chubanshe, 2017)With China continuing its policy of reform and opening and Australia strategically turning to Asia, the period since the mid-1980s has witnessed escalating Chinese immigration to Australia. Against this backdrop, the ethnic Chinese community in Australia has changed significantly, particularly in respect of its demographic characteristics, socio-economic activities, and status, and is now widely perceived as a model and middle class ethnic community. Adopting a “dual-embeddedness” framework, this chapter offers a political-economic analysis of the ethnic Chinese community's transformation over the past three decades or so, highlighting the influence of socio-economic and political macro-contexts and ever-increasing inflows of Chinese migrants, students, investors, and tourists. This chapter details the expression and mechanism of Australian Chinese community’s dual embeddedness. It shows that the ethnic Chinese community in Australia has been simultaneously embedded in the nation building processes in both Australia and China and suggests that the community is not merely a beneficiary of these processes, but also an active agent and contributor.
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ItemFrom multicultural ethnic migrants to the new players of China’s public diplomacy: The Chinese in Australia(Routledge, 2018-03)Since the 1978 opening up of China and her active engagement in economic reformation and modernization, China has become a truly global economic power. These developments have, consequently, had an impact on ethnic Chinese people living across the world. Traditionally, the study of immigrant communities has focused on internal factors, such as the leadership and social organization of the actors inside the communities. This book, however, turns attention to the exogenous factors, which have helped shape the lives of the Chinese diaspora. In doing so, it provides a valuable contribution to the recent literature, which focuses on the effect of globalisation on the Chinese overseas. Using a number of empirical case studies, including the San Francisco Bay, Canada, South Africa and Hungary, it provides an investigation into how China’s contemporary position in the world has affected the identity of the various locales of the Chinese in different continents. Whilst demonstrating the implications of China’s rise on patterns of circular migration and transnational movements, it also explores how the social and economic relations between Chinese communities and their host and ancestral countries have changed. Ultimately, it highlights how China’s rise has brought new economic opportunities and political clout for the Chinese overseas, but at the same time, has created new stereotypes and racial images by association.
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ItemThe changing Chinese community mediascape since the early 1990s(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-03-03)This book examines the relationships between ethnic and Indigenous minorities and the media in Australia.
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ItemRediscovering the New Gold Mountain: Chinese immigration to Australia since the mid-1980s(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-10-21)
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ItemMiddle-class status of Chinese Australians and their demands for political participation: Changes since the 2007 election(Heilongjiang People's Publishing House, 2016)