Authors: Chin-Chuan Lee
ISBN-13: 9780415497367, ISBN-10: 0415497361
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: April 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Virtually every major media, information and telecommunications enterprise in the world is significantly tied to China. This volume provides the most expert, up-to-date and multidisciplinary analyses on how the contemporary media function in what has rapidly become the world's biggest market. As the West, particularly the United States, tries to integrate China into the global market economy, the book examines how globalizing forces clash with Chinese nationalism to shape China's media discourses and ideology. It also analyses the role of the media as a site of resistance within China to the ruling elite.
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1 | The global and the national of the Chinese media: discourses, market, technology, and ideology | 1 |
2 | "Enter the World": neo-liberal globalization, the dream for a strong nation, and Chinese press discourses on the WTO | 32 |
3 | Capturing the flame: aspirations and representations of Beijing's 2008 Olympics | 57 |
4 | Established pluralism: U.S. elite media discourse on China policy | 76 |
5 | Chinese media and youth: attitudes toward nationalism and internationalism | 97 |
6 | Political drama and news narratives: presidential summits on Chinese and U.S. national television | 119 |
7 | Globalization and the Chinese media: technologies, content, commerce and the prospects for the public sphere | 139 |
8 | Administrative boundaries and media marketization: a comparative analysis of the newspaper, TV and Internet markets in China | 159 |
9 | West Lake wired: shaping Hangzhou's information age | 177 |
10 | How do the Chinese media reduce organizational incongruence? Bureaucratic capitalism in the name of Communism | 196 |
11 | Localizing professionalism: discursive practices in China's media reforms | 215 |
12 | The future of Chinese cinema: some lessons from Hong Kong and Taiwan | 237 |
13 | Marketing popular culture in China: Andy Lau as a pan-Chinese icon | 257 |
Index | 270 |