This article is for the “Chinese Journal of Communication” No. 31
“cultural flow and media” topic of five papers, to introduce and guide.
Through the theoretical review, this paper puts forward three kinds of
cultural flow modes, namely, “cultural flow of media imperialism,”
“transnational cultural flow” and “diachronic cultural flow.” The former has been criticized and the latter two models can serve as a reference structure for thinking about cultural flows. In addition, the paper suggests that “cultural flows introduced by the migrant media” and “cross-media cultural flows” as an alternative thinking cultural flows.