Title: Children and Publicness in the Media SphereSubmitted by: Stephi Donald, Murdoch University, AustraliaFocussing on first-generation Mainland-Chinese Australian parents with young children (aged 4-10 years), the paper will present a snapshot of seeding research for a large project into Chinese Australian childhoods and the media. Migrants from the Mainland (People's Republic of China) have a very recent experience of migration, due to policy changes and crises in their place of origin. The migration flow has been concentrated in the last fifteen years, and many of the new migrants are people with young families. These adults share strong memories of childhoods in the PRC, and are possibly living with an alternative model of childhood and media to that used in the construction of media texts for children in Australia. Given the centralised modes of production in the 1960s to early 1980s in the PRC, remembered media products are reasonably simple to trace for analysis (children's media in late revolutionary China,1960-1980). This paper looks at such texts (films and television products), analysing them according to the related premises that dominant concepts of childhood are significant markers of the character of multiculturalism in the public sphere, and of political cultural hierarchies in the media. Return to Abstracts menuCarol Burnett Phone: 61 - 3 - 9349 1899 Email: c.burnett@asialink.unimelb.edu.au
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