"Simin Li, Cantonese, writer, educator, and researcher. She got her bachelor's degrees in Journalism and Education in China, a master's degree in Library and Information Studies in Taiwan and another in Political Science in Canada. Her research interests include international relations of the Asia-Pacific region, identity and neo-nationalism of ethnic Chinese, and elite studies in digital humanities. She published her first academic book ""Discourses of Asian Societies: Cases from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan"" in 2019."
"Simin Li's new book is a fascinating study of Cantonese popular media and identity politics in the age of Xi Jinping. Ranging over a mix of broadcast television shows and online discussion forums dedicated to discussion of language and dialect, Li presents a portrait of a still-vibrant Cantonese media landscape under serious pressure from Beijing's Mandarin-first policies. In addition to offering media-studies analysis of these media texts themselves, Li adds significant value by including candid interviews with a number of content creators who agreed to go on the record for this book. In addition to being a valuable snapshot of contemporary Cantonese identity, ""Remaking A Global Cantonese Community with Television and Social Media"" will also be of interest to a broad range of scholars interested in the interaction of media and language politics. Dr. Daniel Fried Department of East Asian Studies University of Alberta"