Virtually every major media, information, and telecommunications investment in the world is significantly tied to China. This volume provides expert, up-to-date and multidisciplinary analyses on how the contemporary media functions in potentially the world's largest market. As the West, particularly the United States, tries to integrate China into the civilized world through the neoliberal regime of global capitalism, Chinese Media, Global Contexts asks how globalizing forces will clash with nationalist feelings to shape China's media discourses and ideology.

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...

In this richly textured volume, leading scholars and journalists engage in a unique dialogue in their exploration of the rapidly evolving conditions of political communication in China. The contributors begin by considering the bureaucratization of media control within the context of economic reform, addressing such questions as: How were the media used and abused to uphold, undermine, and save the regime's legitimacy? How were they decoded in popular resistance, especially in the age of new technology? How does Communist control compare to Nationalist control-both on the mainland prior to...