This article interrogates what might be considered specifically ‘Chinese’ about Chinese media studies. Examining Chinese media studies from the complementary perspectives of Inter-Asian cultural studies and diasporic interventions into Chinese media, the article seeks to define (and to extend) the current limits of the field as it has emerged in both teaching and research. In doing so, it considers what has hitherto constituted the ‘legitimate’ object of Chinese media studies and asks what might be encompassed by this field in the future as it continues to grow.
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