Culture

By Wanning Sun

Note: This article appeared in Crikey on May 17 2023.

For first-generation migrants from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Australia’s Chinese-language media assumes a significant role in their daily efforts to negotiate the political, social and cultural challenges experienced on daily basis. This role has increased in importance during the current period of heightened tensions between Australia and the PRC.

By Wanning Sun

Note: This article appeared in Crikey on March 16 2023.

Note: This chapter appeared in the Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation report, Taiwan and Australia: Advancing the partnership of four decades, in October 2022.

1. Introduction

In Dreams of Flight (Duke University Press, 2022) Fran Martin, Associate Professor and Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne, explores how young women from China negotiate competing pressures while studying in Australian universities. Unmarried middle-class students from the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professionals through international education, and mould themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals.

By Wanning Sun

Chinese-language media in Australia include both long-established legacy media and more recently developed digital/social media. In recent years, this sector has come under increasing scrutiny as discussion around influence and interference by the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has grown.  

By Wanning Sun

By Wanning Sun

By Wanning Sun