Francis L. F. Lee This article examines media effects on Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong people's attitudes towards globalization. In the case of China, it is argued that the Chinese national media largely reflect the official view on globalization, which is largely positive in tone, focuses more on its benefits than its dangers, and sees
Wan-Ying Lin Like many other major transformative processes, globalization produces winners and losers. While large-scale surveys and cases studies have revealed different levels of resistance to globalization in many countries all over the world, little is known about how this movement is received or opposed in the Chinese society. This study intends to unravel global
Mike Z. Yao As Mainland China becomes an increasingly globalized society, there are more opportunities for Mainland Chinese to be exposed to and interact with the outside world. However, the Chinese government still attempts to restrict foreign television programs, books, newspapers, Web sites, and other forms of media in an effort to control China's cultural
Chin-Chuan Lee This paper seeks to compare the role of the media and nationalist feelings in constructing the image of the United States as an ambivalent other among mainland Chinese and Hong Kong Chinese. The image of the United States incorporates four dimensions: U.S. global leadership, U.S. hegemony, positive way of life, and negative way
Professor Lee Chin-Chuan was the invited keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Chinese Communication Society held in Taipei on 4 July 2008, and again at the first Young Communication Scholars' Forum held at Nanjing University on 1 August 2008. His speech was entitled “Communication Research: Its Identity Problems and Further Challenges.”
