This book details original research into the practices and discourse of multimedia stardom
alongside changing social and cultural landscapes in Hong Kong since 1980. It examines …

This article utilizes a 14-country comparative data set and analyzes how different countries'
television news has covered the events and controversies surrounding the Beijing Olympics …

Abstract China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has encountered much backlash locally and
internationally and had different, conflicting versions of media reality. While China-led mass …

This chapter discusses the UK press's representation of contemporary UK-China relations
by analysing how four major UK newspapers have covered China in the 21st century. This …

This dissertation analyzes the identity formation and transformation of Taiwanese migrants
to China in light of globalization. Combining migrant studies and media studies, it explores …

Recent years have witnessed renewed interest in Africa and public diplomacy has emerged
as the vital tool being used to cultivate these relations. China has been leading in pursuing …

The peasant workers' fortunes in China's littoral regions were a roller-coaster experience
from September 2008 to March 2010. When the repercussions of the global financial crisis …

This article explores a special type of trickster discourse, networked spoof videos and the
'narrative dissidence'embedded in their construction of an alternative memory in China. I …

China's performance on its compliance with international human rights standards, from a
normative perspective, involves and depends on the dynamic of selective adaptation. Such …

Since the beginning of this century, and up to the protests that preceded the 2014 World
Cup, a common point made by academics, journalists and commentators interested in Brazil …