TY - BOOK AU - Sun,Wanning TI - Leaving China: media, migration, and transnational imagination T2 - World social change SN - 9781461638780 AV - P92.C5 U1 - 302.23/0951 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Lanham PB - Rowman & Littlefield KW - Mass media KW - China KW - Migration, Internal KW - Chinese KW - Foreign countries KW - Communication KW - Médias KW - Chine KW - Migration intérieure KW - Chinois KW - Pays étrangers KW - PSYCHOLOGY KW - Social Psychology KW - bisacsh KW - Emigration and immigration KW - fast KW - Migratie (demografie) KW - gtt KW - Identiteit KW - Verbeelding KW - Massamedia KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-229) and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=622414 ER -