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Global Capital, Local Culture: Transnational Media Corporations in China (Popular Culture and Everyday Life #16) (Paperback)

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This book examines the way transnational media companies have entered the Chinese entertainment market. Based on the author's ethnographic work and over 100 interviews with senior executives in global media corporations, including Warner Bros. Pictures, Viacom's MTV Channel, and Nickelodeon and News Corporation's Channel V, the book analyzes the concrete globalization/localization strategies of these corporations and how they cope with the various political and economic constraints of working in China.

About the Author


The Author: Anthony Y.H. Fung is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include political economy of transnational media corporations, popular culture, and cultural studies.

Product Details
ISBN: 9780820495002
ISBN-10: 082049500X
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Publication Date: July 2nd, 2008
Pages: 208
Language: English
Series: Popular Culture and Everyday Life