The Politics of Chinese Media: Consensus and Contestation (China in Transformation)

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 ChinaÆs socialist revolution, this text challenges both the liberal universalist view that presupposes æthe end of historyÆ and various versions of China exceptionalism, which downplay the impact of ChinaÆs integration into global capitalism.

• | Author: Bingchun Meng
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Feb 11, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 236 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 1137462132
• | ISBN-13: 9781137462138