Changing Media, Changing China

Changing Media, Changing China

Author: Susan L. Shirk

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-01-27

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0199751978

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This collection of essays-- written by pioneering Chinese journalists and Western experts--explores how transformations in China's media--from a propaganda mouthpiece into an entity that practices watchdog journalism--are changing the country. In detailed case studies, the authors describe how politicians are reacting to increased scrutiny from the media, and how television, newspapers, magazines, and Web-based news sites navigate the cross currents between the market and the CCP censors.


Social Media in Industrial China

Social Media in Industrial China

Author: Xinyuan Wang

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 191063462X

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Life outside the mobile phone is unbearable.’ Lily, 19, factory worker. Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community of these migrants in a small factory town in southeast China to track their use of social media. It was here she witnessed a second migration taking place: a movement from offline to online. As Wang argues, this is not simply a convenient analogy but represents the convergence of two phenomena as profound and consequential as each other, where the online world now provides a home for the migrant workers who feel otherwise ‘homeless’. Wang’s fascinating study explores the full range of preconceptions commonly held about Chinese people – their relationship with education, with family, with politics, with ‘home’ – and argues why, for this vast population, it is time to reassess what we think we know about contemporary China and the evolving role of social media.


Transformation of Chinese Newspaper Companies

Transformation of Chinese Newspaper Companies

Author: Miao Huang

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-12

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0429663056

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This book focuses on the transformation of Chinese newspaper companies in aspects of managerial strategies, newsroom practices and interactions with national policies. The comparative case study of two publishers comprises empirical evidence from editors, editor-in-chiefs, commercial staff, managers, technicians and scholarly experts. Locating in the intersection of media management, journalism and media policy, its analytical devices include differing but related theories. With the primary data and integrated theoretical frameworks, the primary argue is that the transformation is oriented to the Internet market, which is a consensus of newspaper practitioners and government administrators.


China's Challenges

China's Challenges

Author: Jacques deLisle

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0812223128

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When the "fifth generation" of Communist Party leaders in China assumed top political positions in 2012-2013, they took the helm of a country that has achieved remarkable economic growth, political stability, and international influence. Yet China today confronts challenges at least as daunting as any it has faced since the reform era began in the late 1970s. In November 2013, the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee announced ambitious reforms to address vital issues, such as giving market forces a "decisive role" in the economy, strengthening the social safety net, assigning greater weight to factors other than economic growth and social order in evaluating local officials, promoting urbanization, and relaxing the "one child" policy. China's Challenges brings together fourteen experts on China's social, economic, political, legal, and foreign affairs to examine some of the nation's pivotal policy issues. Their wide-ranging analyses cover economic and social inequality, internal migration and population control, imperatives to "rebalance" China's economy toward domestic demand and consumption, problems of official corruption, tensions between legal reform and social order, and the strained relationships with neighboring countries and the United States that stem from China's rising power, military modernization, enduring territorial disputes, and rising nationalism in domestic politics. This timely volume offers a broad and comprehensive look at the issues facing China today and lays the groundwork for understanding the shifts to come. How—and how well—China handles these challenges not only will define China's trajectory for years to come, but will have repercussions far beyond China's borders. Contributors: Yong Cai, Jacques deLisle, Jane Duckett, Andrew Erickson, M. Taylor Fravel, Avery Goldstein, Yasheng Huang, Zai Liang, Benjamin Liebman, Melanie Manion, Barry Naughton, Daniela Stockmann, Robert Sutter, Guohui Wang.


Metro Newspaper Journalists in China

Metro Newspaper Journalists in China

Author: Zhaoxi (Josie) Liu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-08-25

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 131719974X

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This book explores how journalists at local metro papers in a south-western China metropolis give meaning to their work and how these meanings are shaped by the specific social environment within which these journalists operate. These metro papers provide the bulk of daily news to the general public in China, yet are often understudied compared to the country’s party news outlets. Informed by fieldwork in four metro newspapers, the book puts forward a grounded theory for exploring journalists’ occupational culture: the aspiration-frustration-reconciliation framework.


New Media for a New China

New Media for a New China

Author: James F. Scotton

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-03-16

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1444319124

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New Media for a New China is a timely introduction to thecurrent state of the mass media in China and it’s growingrole in the 21st Century global communication system Brings together an international cast of scholars to analyse thediverse roles of China’s media, covering all the majorindustries (advertising, newspapers, broadcasting, magazines, film,TV, PR) Considers the position of China’s media in the middle ofthe country’s tremendous social, economic and politicalchanges Explores the concept of the 21st century as “China’sCentury” because of the nation’s unprecedentedgrowth


Case Studies on Chinese Enterprises

Case Studies on Chinese Enterprises

Author: Donglin Xia

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0415668115

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With China's strategy shifting from political focus to economic focus, the business environment is more and more in favor of domestic and foreign enterprises, in terms of direct investments, joint ventures and various forms of collaborations. Thus, this book containing first-hand materials of Chinese enterprises would be of invaluable use.