JOSEPH M. CHAN is a professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published widely on the subjects of international communication, political international communication, and the development of communications in Greater China.
BRYCE T. McINTYRE is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of several books on writing and reporting, including Advanced Newsgathering (Praeger, 1991).

Preface
Introduction
Becoming Postmodern
Transculturating Modernity: A Reinterpretation of Cultural Globalization by Joseph M. Chan and Eric Ma
Dissolution of Boundaries
The Unification of the World under the Signs of Mickey Mouse and Bruce Willis: The Supply and Demand Sides of American Popular Culture by Todd Gitlin
Consuming the Citizen: The New International Division of Cultural Labor and the Trade in Screen Texts by Toby Miller
Three Processes of Dissolving Boundaries: Internationalization, Marketization and Acculturation by Paul S.N. Lee
Dissolving Boundaries: The Electronic Newspaper as an Agent of Redefining Social Relationships by Alice Y.L. Lee and Clement Y.K. So
Asian On-line Newspapers and the Challenge to Professional, Personal and Political Boundaries by Mark R. Levy and Brian L. Massey
Reassertion of Boundaries
Global Challenges and National Answers in the Information Age by Frank Webster
Urban Congregations of Capital and Communications: Redesigning Social and Spatial Boundaries by Gerald Sussman
Satellite Broadcasting as Trade Routes in the Sky by Monroe E. Price
Globalization, Ltd.: Domestication at the Boundaries of Television News by Akiba A. Cohen
(Re)asserting National Media and National Identity Against the Global, Regional and Local Levels of World Television by Joseph Straubhaar
Restrictions on Foreign Ownership and National Sovereignty: Whose Issue Is It? by Georgette Wang
Crossing Boundaries
Disneyfying and Globalizing the Chinese Legend Mulan: A Study of Transculturation by Joseph M. Chan
Mapping Transborder Imaginations by Eric Ma
Sweet Comrades: Historical Identities and Popular Culture by Michael Curtin
Getting Personal
Globalization and Me: Thinking at the Boundary by Annabelle Sreberny
Index

In this age of global communication, local identities and nation-states reassert themselves when cultural boundaries are dissolved and reconstructed. This collection of essays by noted scholars in many fields provides a wide range of theoretical approaches and empirical studies that, together, shed light on how local cultural identities resist the forces of globalization by virtue of tradition, transculturation, domestication and hybridization. Examining how people make sense of the world and their own identities as cultural and national boundaries are crossed, In Search of Boundaries transcends many traditional dichotomies between East and West and, more importantly, between tradition and modernity.
Interest in the study of boundaries has grown in sociology, anthropology, geography, and other social sciences, but it has not focused on communication processes. This book fills that void with a series of wide-ranging approaches, from the critical to the liberal, the empirical to the cultural, and the Occidental to the Oriental, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the increasingly global nature of nationality, culture, and identity.