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Phoebe H. Li, A Virtual Chinatown: The Diasporic Mediasphere of Chinese Migrants in New Zealand

Over the last few decades, China’s desire for economic growth, labor mobility, and global integration increased the size of Chinese diasporic communities around the globe. This process, in turn, created a greater need for media content that bridges the homeland and the host land, providing Chinese migrants with both connections to their place of origin and socialization resources in their new locality. An example of this relationship is presented in Phoebe H. Li’s A Virtual Chinatown: The Diasporic Mediasphere of Chinese Migrants in New Zealand. Focusing on the 2005 New Zealand general election, Li discusses the ways in which the diaspora-oriented Chinese-language media has become a “virtual Chinatown,” pulling together different Chinese migration waves in New Zealand into one mediated center. While usually referred to as a tangible common place for the Chinese community in diaspora, the Chinese-language media in New Zealand became a nontangible manifestation of a Chinatown.