Brand China in the Media: Transformation of Identities

ISBN-13: 9781032089973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 248 str.

Qing Cao; Doreen Wu; Keyan G. Tomaselli

Opis

This book examines China’s identity transformations with a focus on self-perceptions and their representations and communication in the mass media. It explores the emerging multifaceted ‘China brand’. The chapters in this book were originally published in Critical Arts.

Spis treści

Introduction: Continuities and Changes for an Alternative Modernity Part I: Chinese Society between Traditions and Modernity

1. Rupture in Modernity: A Case Study of Radicalism in the Late Qing Chinese Press Debate 2. Putonghua and Language Harmony: China’s Resources of Cultural Soft Power 3. Mobile, Online and Angry: The Rise of China’s Middle-Class Civil Society? 4. The Return of the Repressed: Three Examples of How Chinese Identity Is Being Reconsolidated for the Modern World Part II: Negotiating Identities in Moving Images 5. Becoming Global, Remaining Local: The Discourses of International News Reporting by CCTV-4 and Phoenix TV Hong Kong 6. Shanghai Cosmopolis: Negotiating the Branded City 7. Promoting Moral Values through Entertainment: A Social Semiotic Analysis of the Spring Festival Gala on China Central Television 8. Negotiated “Chineseness” and Divided Loyalties: My American Grandson 9. Articulating for Tibetan Experiences in the Contemporary World: A Cultural Study of Pema Tseden’s and Sonthar Gyal’s Films Part III: Representing China in Texts and Symbols 10. The Language of Soft Power: Mediating Socio-political Meanings in the Chinese Media 11. Media Representations of China: A Comparison of China Daily and Financial Times in Reporting on the Belt and Road Initiative 12. Conflicting Images of the Great Wall in Cultural Heritage Tourism 13. China’s Current Discursive Governance: A Discourse Analysis Perspective

O autorze

Qing Cao is Associate Professor in Chinese Studies at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University, UK. He has published extensively in Chinese media and social change, focusing on the issue of modernity. He is the author of China under Western Gaze: Representing China in the British Television Documentaries 1980-2000 (2014), and lead editor of Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China (2014).

Doreen Wu is Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies in the Faculty of Humanities at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has published extensively on glocalization and Chinese media discourses. In addition to editing two special issues for Critical Arts, she has edited and co-edited a number of books and journal issues, including Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age (2008).

Keyan G. Tomaselli is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is editor of Critical Arts and has been working with various Chinese universities on cultural and media topics.