The absorption and indigenization of foreign media cultures a study on a cultural meeting point of the east and west: Hong KongFootnote¹

This is a revised version of a paper presented to the 40th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association at Dublin, Ireland from 24–29 June 1990.

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