Asian National Cultures in Media: China and Thailand
An examination of the concepts of national branding and soft power–and the role the media plays in those concerted attempts by states to control their image. This is strongly related to the representation of domestic minorities, whether ethnic, religious, linguistic, or cultural.
Reading examples:
- Gladney, Dru C. Representing Nationality in China: Refiguring Majority/Minority Identities. The Journal of Asian Studies 53.1 (1994): 92-123. UBC library [link]
- Hoddie, Matthew, and Diqing Lou. 2009. “From Vice to Virtue: Changing Portrayals of Minorities in China’s Official Media.” Asian Ethnicity 10 (1): 51-69. UBC library [link]
- Wei-ming, Tu, ed. The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.
- McCargo, Duncan. Politics and the Press in Thailand: Media Machinations. Routledge, 2000.
- Tambiah, Stanley J. 1992. Buddhism Betrayed: Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka. University of Chicago Press.
- Willford, Andrew Clinton, and Kenneth M. George, eds. Spirited Politics: Religion and Public Life in Contemporary Southeast Asia. SEAP Publications, 2005.
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