As China looks to reinvigorate its soft power by drawing on the creative inputs of foreign media producers and technical expertise, this book explores how and why creative workers are moving to the Mainland from East Asia, and how they are navigating the challenges of producing creative and critical content in a politically constrained environment.

Michael Keane is Professor of Chinese Media and Cultural Studies at Curtin University. He is Program Leader of the Digital China Lab. http://ccat-lab.org/program/digital-china-lab/ His key research interests are the digital transformation in China; East Asian cultural and media policy; and creative industries and cultural export strategies in China and East Asia. He is editor of the Handbook of China's Cultural and Creative Industries (2016), and author of China's Television Industry (2015), Creative Industries in China: Art, Design and Media (2013), and China's New Creative Clusters: Governance, Human Capital and Regional Investment (2011).
Brian Yecies is a Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Wollongong, where he teaches and researches on film, digital media, creative industries, innovation ecosystems, and cultural policy. He is the author of The Changing Face of Korean Cinema, 1960-2015 (2016), and Korea's Occupied Cinemas, 1893-1948 (2011) - both with Ae-Gyung Shim. He is also a chief investigator on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project "Willing Collaborators: Negotiating Change in East Asian Media Production", and Council for Australian Arab Relations-DFAT project "Networking Women Entrepreneurs in Sydney and Dubai: Innovation Hubs, Sustainable Policies and Strategies for Success".
Terry Flew is Professor of Media and Communications and a Chief Investigator with the Digital Media Research Centre at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.   He is the author of The Creative Industries, Culture and Policy (2012), Global Creative Industries (2013), New Media: An Introduction (Oxford, 2014) and co-author of Media Economics (2015).

Acknowledgments / Introduction: Willing Collaborators, the Long Game, Michael Keane / 1 The New International Division of Cultural Labor, Global Media Studies, and the Cultural Rise of China, Terry Flew / 2 Collaborators, Mediators, and Processes: Film Co-production in China, Weiying Peng / 3 The New Geography of the Global Blockbuster: Wanda Scales Up, Michael Curtin / 4 The Will to Power: The BAT in and Beyond China, Michael Keane and Chunmeizi Su / 5 Two-Systems Differential: Informal Media and Decolonization in Hong Kong, Darrell William Davis / 6 Hong Kong Cinema: Reconnecting Its Southeast Asian Heritage, Peichi Chung / 7 Producing Nuanced Chinese Fantasy: A Case Study of Stephen Chow's Box Office Hit Mermaid, Hongchi Shiau and Brian Yecies / 8 China-Japan Crossover Comics: Localization, Re-localization, and Export, Anthony Fung / 9 Dreaming of Webtoons in China and the Next Korean Wave, Brian Yecies / 10 Japanese Cultural Adaptation, Formats, and Remaking in East Asia, Seiko Yasumoto / 11 Regionalizing Reality: The Rise of East Asian Collaborations in Television Production, Ju Oak Kim / 12 Localizing Korean Reality Shows in China: The Practice of Production and Censorship, Arjen Nauta / 13 Cross-Straits Online Collaboration : Multiple Publics and Intractable Institutions, Elaine Jing Zhao / 14 Pan-Asian Celebrity and Manufacturing Women's Desires on East Asian Screens Big and Small, Tania Lim / 15 Creative Migration: Talent and Celebrity Movements to the Chinese Mainland, Danjing Joy Zhang and Michael Keane / Bibliography / Index / About the Editors and Contributors