Mayfair Yang on Transnational dynamics

"What is occurring via the mass media in China today is no longer the simple picture of a Third World culture “locked in a life-and- death struggle with first-world cultural imperialism” (Jameson 1987: 68), but a more complex variegated process of eager accommodation, appropriation, and resistance to foreign cultures." - in Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai (2002)