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i Making Culture provides an in-depth discussion of Australia's relationship between the building of national cultural identity - or 'nationing' - and the country's cultural production and consumption. With the 1994 national cultural policy Creative Nation as a starting point for many of the essays included in this collection, the book investigates transformations within Australia's various cultural fields, exploring the implications of nationing and the gradual movement away from it. Underlying these analyses are the key questions and contradictions confronting any modern nation-state that seeks to develop and defend a national culture while embracing the transnational and the global. Including topics such as publishing, sport, music, tourism, art, Indigeneity, television, heritage and the influence of digital technology and output, Making Culture is an essential volume for students and scholars within Australian and Cultural Studies.

iWith the rapid economic development of China and the overall shift in the global political economy, there is the emergence of new Chinese on the move. These new Chinese migrants and diasporas are pioneers in the establishment of multiple homes in new geographical locations, the development of new (global and hybrid) Chinese identities, and the creation of new (political, economic and social) inspirations through their mobile lives. This book identifies and examines new forms and paths of Chinese migration since the 1980s. It provides updated trends of migration movements of the Chinese, including their emergent geographies. With chapters highlighting the diversities and complexities of these new waves of Chinese migration, this volume offers novel insights to enrich our understanding of Asian mobility in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book will be of interest to academics examining migration, mobility, diaspora, Chinese identity, overseas Chinese studies and Asian diaspora studies.ii iii

\"It's true that an arcane word has a dictionary meaning,\" [Lloyd Evans] wrote in a condemnation of Will Self's verbal wankery. \"But this is purely hypothetical. In practice, it has no meaning at all. It's like putting tlfdtjdtx in the middle of this sentence.\" It's five weeks into semester one and I've ploughed through enough idiot guides on critical theory to be able to read -- as opposed to merely observe the outpouchings of -- my required texts. Casual references to \"Gramscian resonance\" no longer leave me at risk of a restraining order and I can even understand enough of [Ien Ang] to realise she makes some fascinating points. (Happily, my initial reaction to her book turns out to be a differential response negotiated from my concrete local context and is therefore completely legitimate.) What I can't understand, however, is the argument that complex ideas require complex language.

One of the researchers, Dr Greg Noble of the University of Western Sydney, said there was an interesting contradiction that many migrants regarded Australia as home yet lacked a sense of belonging. Professor [Ien Ang] said there was no evidence of ethnic ghettos in Australia, and the study had found Australia had one of the highest rates of inter-ethnic marriages and relationships in the world.

The claim that scholars of multiculturalism in Australia only \"publish in obscure cultural studies journals\" is incorrect. We could name at least a dozen academics (Ang, Noble, Scott Poynting, Ghassan Hage, Cliff Evers, Graeme Turner, among them) who have engaged in public debates about multiculturalism, especially after the Cronulla riots. Their commentary has appeared in leading metropolitan newspapers and on radio, television and the internet. There are many others doing this work, too. Ien Ang is a leading scholar and known for her groundbreaking work in making cultural research relevant to audiences and end users beyond the academy. [Emma Dawson] worked on an SBS research project led by Ang and Greg Noble, both keynotes at the Everyday Multiculturalism conference. The Connecting Diversity project explored how young Australians of culturally diverse backgrounds understand and experience multiculturalism and the media. Acknowledging its relevance, Dawson describes this research as important myth-busting social research that \"makes an invaluable contribution to the national discussion on cultural diversity and social cohesion\". The research team paid a great deal of attention to promoting this work through the media.

Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World by Ien Ang is reviewed.

Paul S. Ropp reviews \"Male Anxiety and Female Chastity: A Comparative Study of Chinese Ethical Values in Ming-Ch'ing Times,\" by T'ien Ju-K'ang.