This paper introduces the special issue ?China: Internationalizing the Creative Industries?, describing the Australian Research Council funded ?MATE? project which provides the conceptual background for the questions the issue explores. The MATE project began with the expectation that as China...

The paper argues that transformations in global media industry practices can be usefully indexed to the on-going trend to consolidation by ?big media?. This trend was influentially first described by Bagdikian who noted that 50 corporations in the US ?controlled more than half of all broadcast...