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Self-hybridisation: China as a global media player
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Self-hybridisation: China as a global media player

Yingchi Chu
Media Asia, Vol.40(4), pp.344-353
2013
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The paper argues that self-hybridisation by Chinese media producers is one of their strategies in wooing international audiences in the global media. The paper places the notion of self-hybridisation in the context of cross-cultural, inter-cultural, and trans-cultural relations, as discussed in the literature. In doing so, the author draws a sharper-then-usual distinction in negotiating cross-cultural and inter-cultural competence. Contrary to Kraidy’s influential arguments in favour of trans-culturalism as a way of overcoming both cultural imperialism and cultural pluralism, the paper places hybridisation between cultural imperialism and cultural essentialism as a way of avoiding both extremes and at the same time making cultural difference accessible. This concept is then illustrated by two case studies.

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