2. China’s Soft Power Building and Its TV Industry as a Soft Powerhouse
3. Foreign Markets and Professionals: The Gatekeepers
4. Local Embeddedness vs. China’s Soft Power: The Case of Offline Media
5. The Conversion Paradox in Quasi-Sinophone East Asia
6. The Limits of Outsourced Soft Power
7. Seeking Virtual Capital through Online Media in the Digital Age
8. Conclusions
9. Postscript: Envisioning the Future of China’s Soft Power
Claire Seungeun Lee is an assistant professor at Inha University, South Korea. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, her research primarily focuses on China’s social and technical transformations, global media, im/migration, the intersection between technology, deviance, policies in cyberspace, and digital sociology.