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"Media and Communication Theory in Africa" is a book edited by Nelson Okorie, Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi, and Ngozi Okpara that explores the nature, dynamics, and functions of media in the African context. The book covers various types of media and communication, including the press, family communication, film, and health. It examines theories associated with press communication, such as normative press theory and gate-keeping theory, and discusses the contributions of family communication perspectives to communication studies. The book also delves into the value of film theories in understanding African cinema and explores health communication theories and their application in Africa. The use of diverse cases and visuals throughout the book provides readers with a conceptual and empirical framework for understanding media and communication in different African contexts. While the book could benefit from clearer organization, it is a valuable contribution to the study of communication theories in Africa. [Extracted from the article]

Wang, Cangbai Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas: Migration Histories and the Cultural Heritage of the Homeland, Routledge: London and New York, 2021; xi +178 pp.; ISBN 9780367466299, £120 Migration museums are institutions found in many migrant destination countries that tend to display the narrative of how immigrants adapt and settle into a new country. Crucially, the book complicates the static and single dimensional portrayal of museums by shedding light on the multifarious interpretations of the past that the museum founders and buildings themselves engage in. According to Wang Cangbai, an interdisciplinary scholar of Chinese migration and heritage studies at the University of Westminster, the post-1980s museum boom in China puts the Chinese diaspora on public display there for the first time. [Extracted from the article]

"Walking between Land and Water" weaves an exploration of the tropes of walking and liminality in the poetry of Shirley Geok-lin Lim into an essay-portrait of the poet at her home in Santa Barbara. It tracks the poet as she takes her daily walk on the beach, and sees how this mundane act furnishes a mobile poetic that articulates the contradictions and complexities of her diasporic history and condition. Focussing on her most recent collection of poems, Walking Backwards, the essay also picks out the major shifts in her work, especially the change to a more transnational key. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Celluloid Comrades: Representation of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas," by Song Hwee Lim.

The article reviews the book "The Theater of Trauma: American Modernist Drama and the Psychological Struggle for the American Mind, 1900-1930," by Michael Cotsell.

The article reviews the exhibition "Half a Century of Chinese Woodblock Prints: From the Communist Revolution to Open-Door Policy and Beyond 1945-1998," in Singapore in 2003.

Reviews the exhibition "Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. From the Mediterranean to the Indus" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, May 8-August 17, 2003.

Reviews the book 'Identité de la France,' vol. 1, 'Espace et histoire,' and vol. 2, 'Les hommes et les choses,' by Fernand Braudel, translated by Siân Reynolds.

Reviews the book `Out of Italy,' by F. Braudel.

Reviews the book `A Mother's Ordeal. One Woman's Fight against China's One Child Policy,' by Steven W. Morsher. Account of contemporary China; Government-enforced birth control; Human rights issue.

Reviews the touring exhibition `Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art' of the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts (LACMA). Influence of outsider art on mainstream artists; Artists included in the exhibit; Art of children and the insane; Characteristics of the outsider artist.

The article reviews the book "The Art of Partimento: History, Theory, and Practice" by Giorgio Sanguinetti.

The article reviews the book "1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism," by Nicole Eustace.

A review of the book "Migropolis: Venice/Atlas of a Global Situation," by Wolfgang Scheppe is presented.