Contents

Figures and Appendixes

Contributors

Acknowledgments

1 Diasporas and the Media

John Sinclair and Stuart Cunningham

Shifting Ground

Delineating Diaspora

Constructing a Research Object

Australia as a Situated Research Field

Public “Sphericules” and Policy Scenarios

2 Chinese Cosmopolitanism and Media Use

John Sinclair, Audrey Yue, Gay Hawkins, Kee Pookong, and Josephine Fox

The Chinese in Australia: Global Diaspora in Microcosm

Narrowcast Institutions: SBS and New World

Distribution of Chinese-language Video and Film in Australia

Results of Household Interviews (Survey Phase)

Results of Household Interviews (Ethnographic Phase)

Floating Lives

3 Popular Media of the Vietnamese Diaspora

Stuart Cunningham and Tina Nguyen

Basic Demography

“Structured in Dominance”: The Vietnamese Media Diet

“The New York of the East”: Hong Kong Attractions

Vietnamese Diasporic Video

Conclusion

4 Bollywood Down Under: Fiji Indian Cultural History and Popular Assertion

Manas Ray

Different Diasporic Indias

Demography of Fiji Indians in Australia

Media and Identity Politics

Indenture and Beyond

From the Ramayan to Bollywood

Fiji Indian Cultural Ecology in Australia

Intercommunal Discord and Cultural Assertion

Fiji Indian Youth Culture and Post-Zee Bollywood

Diasporising Bollywood

Conclusion

5 Mi Arai Mai Mai Mai? Thai–Australian Video Ways

Glen Lewis and Chalinee Hirano

Thai–Australian Connections

Thai Community Use of Broadcast TV, Radio and the Press

Ethnic Videos and Thai Urban Culture

Thai Video Stores: A Product or a Community Service?

Thai Community Video Use and Cultural Representation

Thai–Australian Media Use and Cultural Identification

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

Index