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This book examines the role played by the media in China's ongoing cultural transformation. It demonstrates that the media is integral to China's changing culture in the age of globalization, whilst also being part and parcel of the State and its project of re-imagining national identity

This book examines the role played by the media in China?s ongoing cultural transformation. It demonstrates that the media is integral to China?s changing culture in the age of globalization, whilst also being part and parcel of the State and its project of re-imagining national identity.

AbstractThis article offers a critical analysis of China's health code system, a data-powered pandemic control and contact tracing system that supposedly subjects all individuals in the country to its panopticon control, a surveillance system that monitors and categorises the Chinese population into the healthy (green), the dubious (yellow), and the unhealthy (red). The article highlights the pretence of surveillance as care and the digital divide that normalises discrimination against the elderly and other digitally left-behind population. It also illustrates how, from policy making and technological design to user engagement, the health code system is implemented, optimised, and used in everyday life to meet the needs of the vulnerable population. The health code is better taken as a medium of adaptable and communicative process that can reset the relation between the system and the lifeworld. It is the process of interchange between the system and the lifeworld that deserves our critical attention.

This essay examines the phenomenon of embodied philanthropy on the move, with a focus on the WeRun (weixin yundong, an add-on to Weixin) for charity initiative. It analyzes key features of mobile-enabled micro and handy philanthropy that is at the same time on the move and examines its cultural and political implications on Chinese society. It also critiques embodied philanthropy, which is a market-driven, consumer-empowered, and individualistic form of bodily improvement or engagement in the name of charity. It points out that philanthropy on the move is used as a platform to educate, nurture, and realize neoliberal citizenship, which is managed, sponsored, and aspired by the Chinese state, the private sector, and individuals. It argues that cultivating neoliberal citizenship through micro, individual, and highly mediated activities (via volunteering and handy philanthropy) can displace criticism of the Party-state and disinterest people from participating in social actions on the ground. But it also has the potential to transcend the dichotomies of altruism versus self-interest or state versus society.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A New Direction in Global Chinese Studies? -- 1 Between Diaspora Identity and Citizenship: Social Capital in Transnational Space -- 2 Place-Making, Flexible Citizens, and the Reality of Living "In Between" -- 3 Soft Power and Diaspora Diplomacy -- 4 Digital Diaspora and Transnational Place-Making -- 5 Australia: A Country-Specific Approach -- 6 Chinese-Language Media as an Instrument of Chinese Influence? -- 7 Methods and Approach -- 8 Chapters -- 1 Media, Migration, and the New Chinese Diaspora: History, Politics, and Context -- 1 History of Earlier Chinese Migration -- 2 New Migrants from the PRC -- 3 "New New" Migrants from the PRC -- 4 Changing Demographic Patterns and Characteristics -- 5 Changing Political Climate -- 5.1 Agents of Public Diplomacy? "Pull" Factors from China -- 5.2 Spies and Agents of Influence? The "Push" Factor from Australia -- 5.3 Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- 5.4 Ambiguity and Ambivalence -- 6 Chinese-Language Media in Australia -- 6.1 Early Decades Prior to the Arrival of PRC Migrants -- 6.2 The Emergence of the Mandarin-Language Media Sector -- 6.3 The Threat of Online Media -- 6.4 The Diversity and Complexity of the Chinese-Language Media Landscape -- 2 WeChat Subscription Accounts: Regulation, Business Model, and Institutional Context -- 1 WeChat and WeChat Subscription Accounts -- 2 The Political and Economic Context -- 3 Typology of WSA s and Their Regulatory Framework -- 4 Top Fifty WSA s in Australia: A Collective Portrait -- 5 Beyond a Simplistic Notion of Control: Conclusion -- 3 Production and Consumption of News on WeChat: Platform, Market, and Readers -- 1 Methods -- 2 Top Ten WSA s: Typology of Content and Style -- 3 Case Studies: Hong Kong Protests and Horton Versus Sun.