Download or read book The Transformation of Political Communication in China written by Xiaoling Zhang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines different dynamics such as marketisation, globalisation and new media technologies that have driven the transformation of China''s media industry OCo one of the primary battlegrounds where ideological, social and economic struggles are fought OCo against the backdrop of the growing tensions between economic growth, globalisation, and political control in China.
Download or read book Transformation Of Political Communication In China The From Propaganda To Hegemony written by Xiaoling Zhang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines different dynamics such as marketisation, globalisation and new media technologies that have driven the transformation of China's media industry — one of the primary battlegrounds where ideological, social and economic struggles are fought — against the backdrop of the growing tensions between economic growth, globalisation, and political control in China.
Download or read book Political Communication in China written by Wenfang Tang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely recognised that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses the media to set the agenda for political discourse, propagate official policies, monitor public opinion, and rally regime support. State agencies in China control the full spectrum of media programming, either through ownership or the power to regulate. Political Communication in China examines the two factors which have contributed to the rapid development of media infrastructure in China: technology and commercialization. Economic development led to technological advancement, which in turn brought about the rapid modernization of all forms of communication, from ‘old’ media such as television to the Internet, cell phones, and satellite communications. This volume examines how these recent developments have affected the relationship between the CCP and the mass media as well as the implications of this evolving relationship for understanding Chinese citizens’ media use, political attitudes, and behaviour. The chapters in this book represent a diverse range of research methods, from surveys, content analysis, and field interviews to the manipulation of aggregate statistical data. The result is a lively debate which creates many opportunities for future research into the fundamental question of convergence between political and media regimes. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Political Communication.
Download or read book The Transformation of Political Communication in China written by Xiaoling Zhang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be prepared to answer the most relevant interview questions and land the job Programmers are in demand, but to land the job, you must demonstrate knowledge of those things expected by today's employers. Thisguide sets you up for success. Not only does it provide 160 of the most commonly asked interview questions and model answers, but it also offers insight into the context and motivation of hiring managers in today's marketplace. Written by a veteran hiring manager, this book is a comprehensive guide for experienced and first-time programmers alike. Provides insight into what drives the recruitment process and how hiring managers think Covers both practical knowledge and recommendations for handling the interview process Features 160 actual interview questions, including some related to code samples that are available for download on a companion website Includes information on landing an interview, preparing a cheat-sheet for a phone interview, how to demonstrate your programming wisdom, and more Ace the Programming Interview, like the earlier Wiley bestseller Programming Interviews Exposed, helps you approach the job interview with the confidence that comes from being prepared.
Download or read book The Politics of Chinese Media written by Bingchun Meng and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an analytical account of the consensus and contestations of the politics of Chinese media at both institutional and discursive levels. It considers the formal politics of how the Chinese state manages political communication internally and externally in the post-socialist era, and examines the politics of news media, focusing particularly on how journalists navigate the competing demands of the state, the capital and the urban middle class readership. The book also addresses the politics of entertainment media, in terms of how power operates upon and within media culture, and the politics of digital networks, highlighting how the Internet has become the battlefield of ideological contestation while also shaping how political negotiations are conducted. Bearing in mind the contemporary relevance of China’s socialist revolution, this text challenges both the liberal universalist view that presupposes ‘the end of history’ and various versions of China exceptionalism, which downplay the impact of China’s integration into global capitalism.
Download or read book China s Media Media s China written by Chin-Chuan Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the rapidly evolving conditions of political communication in China. It examines how ideology and professional roles affect both scholarly and journalistic understanding of China. The book offers insights into Chinese journalism and Sino-American relations. .
Download or read book State Propaganda in China s Entertainment Industry written by Shenshen Cai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most current research on the evolution of China’s propaganda discourse only touches upon recent variations of official propaganda rhetoric grounded in popular media. Here, the research is extended by tapping into the most recently released popular cultural media narratives such as online documentaries, films, TV drama serials and education programs, all of which are enlisted and co-opted by the state for propaganda goals. This book maps out the cutting-edge expansions of official propaganda that are embedded in the entertainment industry of contemporary China. Its case studies bring to light the progression of the mainstream propaganda discourse in terms of its merging, cooperation and compromise with the commercial features of both the traditional and newly-emerging entertainment media. In particular, it examines a group of mass entertainment products which include two best-selling mainstream blockbusters, two on-line commercial web documentaries, the China Central Television Moon Festival Gala series, socialist revolutionary TV drama serials, and a prime time science and education program. In so doing, it forefronts the up-to-date developments and novelties of state propaganda: its motives, reasoning and approaches within the mediasphere of today’s China. Illustrating how the CCP propaganda apparatus and tactics evolve and become embedded in popular media products, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese studies, Media Studies and Popular Cultural Studies.
Download or read book Mediating the Message written by Matthew Timothy Wills and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation answers the question: How do material and human constraints shape political communication? Historians of China and other societies have studied the discourses of political propaganda, their efficacy, and how people subvert them. Much less is known, however, about the material basis of political communication and the material limits of state autonomy. Within the scope of communications employed by modern states, books and other print publications offer fertile ground for analyzing these processes. In this, the first full-length study of book publishing in the People's Republic of China, I combine archival research, book history and bibliography to understand how the Chinese Communist Party communicated with ordinary people during the 1970s. Through discussion of book production during a 1970s political campaign, I demonstrate how material factors both bolstered and limited the state's communicative power and, by extension, influenced the course of political movements in China. By harnessing technologies of industrial production and cheap paperback publishing, state publishers and printers could saturate society with printed material. A sophisticated network of bookstores, distribution points and libraries brought books to the masses and extended the Party's influence, while the expertise of book designers and editors in manipulating technological capabilities welded established genres onto revolutionary political programs. Yet, at the same time, propaganda activities ran up against quotidian practical limitations. Paper shortages, fluctuating book supplies, conflicting workloads and political instability numbered among the many factors that mediated the reach of the state. Furthermore, material considerations overlapped with geographic, ethnic and class differences across the country to ensure that propaganda publications retained the book's historical value as an index of status. Finally, regime change after the death of the Party's paramount leader revealed the risks associated with tying publishing, printing and politics so closely together. Overall, I paint an in-depth picture of a powerful Cold War state committing huge quantities of resources--technological, manual, mental and physical--to political communication and yet finding that these investments were sometimes still insufficient or paradoxically counter-productive. On one level, this conclusion has the potential to transform the way historians think about state power by refuting latent assumptions about the state's unbridled ability to produce large amounts of propaganda material. More fundamentally, it reminds us that technology and material resources occupy a central place in the political economy of information distribution. While transforming the way historians think about propaganda and information, I also demonstrate the contributions methodologies from book history and bibliography can make to such studies. This dissertation deploys a range of material techniques--such as typeface and paper analysis, comparison of multiple copies of the same book, and reconstruction of a book's printing process from evidence left in copies--to provide quotidian information unrecorded in standard publisher and printer archives. For instance, I identify when books printed in different parts of the country used the same parent set of printing plates, thereby finding new evidence for publishers coordinating with each other to accelerate propaganda production. Where Chinese studies and propaganda studies can learn from the (mostly Euro-centric) fields of book history and bibliography, so the reverse is also true. My study challenges the European and American biases of modern book history. Quantitatively, the scope of China's publishing sector eclipsed most other countries, yet book historians are far more familiar with the likes of Penguin Books than with Beijing People's Press. Therefore, this dissertation is an early call to recast the history of the book in the twentieth century as dominated by the ever closer union of politics and print.
Download or read book The Making of a Neo Propaganda State written by Titus C. Chen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book thoroughly examines how China under Xi Jinping has conceptualized and enforced its digital propaganda strategy on social media,which has enabled the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime to manipulate online information and shape public opinion.
Download or read book Communication in China written by Yuezhi Zhao and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative study explores China's rapidly evolving polity, economy, and society through the prism of its communication system. Yuezhi Zhao offers a multifaceted, interdisciplinary analysis of communication in China and its central role in the struggle for control during the country's rise to global power. The industry in all its forms--ranging from the news media to entertainment outlets to the Internet--has been a critical battleground among different social forces in this period of wrenching change. The author explores alterations in the structure and content of Chinese communication in light of the rapid evolution of state-society relations to reveal the profoundly contradictory, conflicted, and uncertain nature of China's ongoing transformation.
Download or read book China s Media and Soft Power in Africa written by X. Zhang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together scholars from different disciplines and nations to examine and assess the effectiveness of China's soft power initiatives in Africa. It throws light not only on China's engagement with Africa but also on how China's increasing influence is received in the African media.
Download or read book Chinese Television and National Identity Construction written by Lauren Gorfinkel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines music entertainment programmes on China Central Television, China’s only national level television network, as well as on nationally-available provincial channels, exploring how such programmes project a nuanced image of China’s identity and position in the world. It shows how the images presented - primarily to domestic audiences - are in step with China’s party-state nationalism, and at the same time flexible and open to change as China’s circumstances change. The book contextualises identity construction in the media by examining the development of television in China and the political struggles between provincial and national television stations, as well as by foregrounding the historical and contemporary role of musical culture in China's nation-building project. It discusses the portrayal of the majority Han Chinese, and of ethnic minorities and their music, which, the author argues, are shown as fitting with the party-state rhetoric of “a unitary multi-ethnic state”. It also outlines how the Chinese of Greater China – Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao and the overseas Chinese – are incorporated into a mainland centred Chinese identity. In addition, it shows how the performances of foreign personalities on the Chinese television stage emphasise foreigners' attraction to China, the uniqueness of the Chinese nation and Chinese civilisation, and the revitalised role of China in the world. Overall, the book demonstrates how the variations of Chinese identity fit with prevailing political ideologies in China and with the emerging theme of a China-centred world.
Download or read book Handbook of Cultural and Creative Industries in China written by Michael Keane and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is at the crux of reforming, professionalising, and internationalising its cultural and creative industries. These industries are at the forefront of China's move towards the status of a developed country. In this comprehensive Handbook, international experts including leading Mainland scholars examine the background to China's cultural and creative industries as well as the challenges ahead. The chapters represent the cutting-edge of scholarship, setting out the future directions of culture, creativity and innovation in China. Combining interdisciplinary approaches with contemporary social and economic theory, the contributors examine developments in art, cultural tourism, urbanism, digital media, e-commerce, fashion and architectural design, publishing, film, television, animation, documentary, music and festivals. Students of Chinese culture and society will find this Handbook to be an invaluable resource. Scholars working on topics related to China's emergence and its cultural aspirations will also find the themes discussed in this book to be of interest. Contributors:R. Bai, M. Cheung, Y. Chu, P. Chung, J. Dai, J. De Kloet, A.Y.H. Fung, L. Gorfinkel, M. Guo, E.C. Hendriks, C.M. Herr, V. Ho, Y. Huang, M. Keane, W. Lei, H. Li, W. Li, Y. Li, W. Lei, B. Liboriussen, T. Lindgren, R. Ma, L. Montgomery, E. Priest, Z. Qiu, X. Ren, F. Schneider, W. Sun, M.A. Ulfstjerne, J. Wang, Q. Wang, C. Hing-Yuk Wong, H. Wu, B. Yecies, L. Yi, N. Yi, X. Zhang, E.J. Zhao, J. Zheng
Download or read book China s Media Media s China written by Jinquan Li and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1994-08-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholar and journalist contributors explore the rapidly evolving conditions of political communication in China. Issues considered include the bureaucratization of media control; how ideology and professional roles affect both scholarly and journalistic thought in China; how the media has been used in the service of the regime; how the Cold War has shaped the picture Westerners have of China; and challenges faced by US journalists in China. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Chinese Authoritarianism in the Information Age written by Suisheng Zhao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines information and public opinion control by the authoritarian state in response to popular access to information and upgraded political communication channels among the citizens in contemporary China. Empowered by mass media, particularly social media and other information technology, Chinese citizen’s access to information has been expanded. Publicly focusing events and opinions have served as catalysts to shape the agenda for policy making and law making, narrow down the set of policy options, and change the pace of policy implementation. Yet, the authoritarian state remains in tight control of media, including social media, to deny the free flow of information and shape public opinion through a centralized institutional framework for propaganda and information technologies. The evolving process of media control and public opinion manipulation has constrained citizen’s political participation and strengthened Chinese authoritarianism in the information age. The chapters originally published as articles in the Journal of Contemporary China.
Download or read book Television Histories in Asia written by Jinna Tay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an analysis of television histories across India, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia and Bhutan. It offers a set of standard data on the history of television’s cultural, industrial and political structures in each specific national context, allowing for cross-regional comparative analysis. Each chapter presents a case study on a salient aspect of contemporary television culture of the nation in question, such as analyses of ideology in television content in Japan and Singapore, and transformations of industry structure vis-à-vis state versus market control in China and Taiwan. The book provides a comprehensive overview of TV histories in Asia as well as a survey of current issues and concerns in Asian television cultures and their social and political impact.
Download or read book Urban Mobilizations and New Media in Contemporary China written by Lisheng Dong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular protests are on the rise in China. However, since protesters rely on existing channels of participation and on patronage by elite backers, the state has been able to stymie attempts to generalize resistance and no large scale political movements have significantly challenged party rule. Yet the Chinese state is not monolithic. Decentralization has increased the power of local authorities, creating space for policy innovations and opening up the political opportunity structure. Popular protest in China - particularly in urban realm- not only benefits from the political fragmentation of the state, but also from the political communications revolution. The question of how and to what extent the internet can be used for mobilizing popular resistance in China is hotly debated. The government, virtual social organizations, and individual netizens both cooperate and compete with each other on the web. New media both increases the scope of the mobilizers and the mobilized (thereby creating new social capital), and provides the government with new means of social control (thereby limiting the political impact of the growing social capital). This volume is the first of its kind to assess the ways new media influence the mobilization of popular resistance and its possible effects in China today.