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Game industry and cultural policy -- Hong Kong game industry -- Game industry and markets in China -- Cultural policies in China -- East Asian cultural policies and market -- Conclusion: Hong Kong's creative industries and East Asian rivalry -- Epilogue: study of cultural policy as vocation -- References -- Index

pt. 1. The dominance of global continuity : cultural localization and adaptation -- pt. 2. Global discontinuity : the local absorption of global culture -- pt. 3. Cultural domestication : a new form of global continuity -- pt. 4. China as a rising market : cultural antagonism and globalization.

Privacy, globalization and politics -- From globalization to glocalization -- Globalizing China: cases of transnational music records -- WTO, politics of control and collaborations -- A tale of two localizing global capitals: MTV and Channel V -- Active nation, active audience -- Toward an emerging (national) global culture

Ten years after the handover, this article examines the macro and collective consequences of self-censorship, change of media ownership and, two major issues of press freedom during the transition period. The article argues that journalists working in media organizations acquired by 'pro-China' business tend to steer the media toward a 'neutral' and 'objective' position. The result is a new modal center in the spectrum of political ideology and reduced diversity in the marketplace of opinions. (Asian J Commun/NIAS)

Addressing the debate over the emancipatory potential of the internet, this article analyses the archival data of an electronic discussion group (e-group), Hong Kong Net (HKnet), to assess the use of the internet by a group of Hong Kong Chinese in the United States to engage in the construction of their own identity within the context of decolonization and the transfer of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty. The study adopts a Foucauldian perspective to examine not only the significance of the texts but also what marginal groups actually do with the text and the internet. The argument is developed that while the Hong Kong Chinese cannot not evade the power of the dominant discourses of the social networks within which they are located, they are able to confirm their own independent subjectivity for themselves in this specific local site through online practice at a specific historical juncture.

This book challenges assumptions that have underpinned critiques of globalization. Combining cultural theory with media industry analysis the authors set out a groundbreaking account of how the medium of television is evolving in the post-broadcasting era, and how programming ideas are creatively redeveloped and franchised in East Asia. While many of the television programs, formats, and genres in this study originate from Western origins, it is their reception and adaptation within East Asia that illustrates what the authors term the East Asian cultural imagination

Survey results show that more Hong Kong people claim a mixed identity, seeing themselves as both Hongkongers and Chinese. Their perceptions of Hong Kong-mainland differences are disappearing in terms of economic values but are still conspicuous in terms of political values. They identify with the cultural and historical aspects of their national identity more; political identification remains weak. The authors try to problematize the once dominant mediated local-national dichotomy and propose a multidimensional understanding of the formations of Hong Kong's national identity. (Asian J Commun/NIAS)