Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism

ISBN-13: 9781107195981 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 264 str.

Maria Repnikova

Opis

Repnikova offers an innovative analysis of the media oversight role in China by examining how a volatile partnership is sustained between critical journalists and the state.

Recenzje

'… this book makes an original, thoughtprovoking and necessary contribution to our understanding of Chinese media politics and Chinese politics on the whole.' Preksha Shree Chhetri, Europe-Asia Studies

Spis treści

Part I. Conceptual Frameworks: 1. Introduction; 2. Payoffs; Part II. Mutual Objectives and Routine Dynamics: 3. Unified objectives: the official discourse and journalistic interpretation of media supervision; 4. Restrictions on critical journalism: how they are applied and negotiated; Part III. Crisis Events: 5. Critical journalists, the party-state and the Wenchuan earthquake; 6. The battle over coal-mining safety; Part IV. Comparisons: 7. Beyond China: critical journalists and the state under Gorbachev and Putin; 8. From Hu to Xi.