This edited volume is first of its kind to document and critically analyse the changes took place snice China’s opening-up and reform and its impact on Dongbei, China’s North-East region, known for its remote and vast landscape, unique and othered culture, rich resources, mighty infrastructures and industries, geopolitical significance. Through presenting up-to-date and multidimensional case studies, the book covers three major aspects of Dongbei, which put people at the heart of our scholarly focus, namely people’s mediated life through traditional and new media; people’s social, cultural, and living spaces; artistic and fictional representations of people’s everyday life.

 Zhen Troy Chen, PhD (Nottingham), FHEA, Senior Lecturer in Media, School of Communication and Creativity, City, University of London.

Jiawen Han, PhD (NSWS), FHEA, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Design School, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.

Xianwen Kuang, PhD (SDU), FHEA, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communication, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.

Xi Liu, PhD (HKU), FHEA, Associate Professor, Department of China Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.