Leaving China: Media, Migration, and Transnational ImaginationMore than ever before, China is on the move. When the flow of people and images is fused, meanings of self, place, space, community, and nation become unstable and contestable. This fascinating book explores the ways in which movement within and across the national borders of the PRC has influenced the imagination of the Chinese people, both those who remain and those who have left. Travelers or no, all participate in the production and consumption of images and narratives of travel, thus contributing to the formation of transnational subjectivities. Wanning Sun offers a fine-grained analysis of the significant narrative forms and discursive strategies used in representing transnational space in contemporary China. This includes looking at how stay-at-homes fantasize about faraway or unknown places, and how those in the diaspora remember experiences of familiar places. She considers the ways in which mobility-of people, capital, and images-affects localities through individuals' constructions of a sense of place. Relatedly, the author illustrates how economic, social, and political forces either facilitate or inhibit the formation of a particular kind of transnational subjectivity. |
Contents
Going Home or Going Places Television in the Village | 21 |
Going Abroad or Staying Home Cinema Fantasy and the World City | 43 |
Arriving at the Global City Television Dramas and Spatial Imagination | 67 |
Haggling in the Margin Videotapes and Paradiasporic Audiences | 91 |
Fantasizing the Homeland The Internet Memory and Exilic Longings | 113 |
Eating Food and Telling Stories From Homeland to Homepage | 137 |
Fragmenting the National TimeSpace Media Events in the Satellite Age | 159 |
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