131. Anne-Marie Brady, Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010): 163-164. 132. Ying Zhu, Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television (New York, New York: The New Press, 2012); Sun, Wanning, Audrey Yue, John Sinclair, and Jia Gao, “Diasporic Chinese media in Australia: A post-2008 overview,” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, vol. 25, no. 4 (August 2011): 515-527; Mei Duzhe, “How China’s Government is Attempting to Control Chinese Media in America,” Jamestown Foundation China Brief, vol. 1, no. 10 (November 21, 2001): http://www.jamestown.org/programs/edm/single/?tx_ ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=28481&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=166&no_cache=1#.UhTwZZK1EwA. 133. See for example ed. Wanning Sun, Media and the Chinese diaspora: Community, communications and commerce (London: Routledge, 2006). 134. John Garnaut, “Toeing the Line,” Sydney Morning Herald, April 13, 2011, http://www.smh.com.au/world/ toeing-the-line-20110412-1dcj8.html. 135. Sun, Wanning, Audrey Yue, John Sinclair, and Jia Gao. “The Chinese-language press in Australia: A preliminary scoping study,” Media International Australia (2011) 143: 137–48. 136. Interview with Chen Pokong, August 2, 2013. 137. For example, businesses advertising with The Epoch Times, a general interest newspaper run by Falun Gong practitioners that publishes in Chinese and other languages, have reportedly encountered such pressures in North America and Europe. 138. Interview with Chen Pokong, August 2, 2013. 139. Phone interview with Jack Jia, founder and editor of Chinese News, August 2, 2013. Circulation numbers are traditionally used to determine advertising rates. Jia recently published a notice in his paper asserting that “we have collected evidence showing some of the Chinese newspapers and magazines in Toronto are inflating their circulation numbers,” and requesting witnesses from the public to come forth with more details. Copy of notice on file with the author. 140. Ibid. 141. China’s Propaganda and Influence Operations, Its Intelligence Activities that Target the United States, and the Resulting Impacts on U.S. National Security: Hearing of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, April 30, 2009 (testimony of Dr. Anne-Marie Brady, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand) http://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/4.30.09Brady.pdf. 142. Wanning Sun, “Motherland calling: China’s rise and diasporic response,” Cinema Journal, vol. 49, no. 3 (2010): 126–30; http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/cinema_journal/v049/49.3.sun. html. 143. Feng Chongyi, “The Changing Political Identity of the ‘Overseas Chinese’ in Australia,” Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol 3, no. 1 (2011), http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/mcs/ article/view/1865. 144. Jia interview.
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