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1 online resource (385 pages). |
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| Series |
State and society in East Asia
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State and society in East Asia.
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| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Reconfiguring Party-State Power: Market Reforms, Communication, and Control in the Digital Age; 2 Securing the ""Commanding Heights"": Class, Power, and the Transformation of the Party-State's Media and Culture Sector; 3 Dancing with Wolves? Transnational Capital, Nationalism, and the Terms of Global Reintegration; 4 Entertaining the Masses: Domestic Private Capital, Popular Media, and the Role of Cultural Entrepreneurs; 5 Civil Rights, Legal Justice: Possibilities and Limits of Media and Internet Mobilization. |
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6 Challenging Neoliberalism? The ""Lang Xianping Storm, "" Property Rights, and Economic JusticeConclusion: The Trees Want to Be Quiet but the Winds Won't Stop; Index; About the Author. |
| Summary |
This authoritative study explores China's rapidly evolving polity, economy, and society through the prism of its communication system. Yuezhi Zhao offers a multifaceted, interdisciplinary analysis of communication in China and its central role in the struggle for control during the country's rise to global power. The industry in all its forms-ranging from the news media to entertainment outlets to the Internet-has been a critical battleground among different social forces in this period of wrenching change. The author explores alterations in the structure and content of Chinese communication i. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Communication policy -- China.
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Communication policy. |
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China. |
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Mass media policy -- China.
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Mass media policy. |
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Communication -- China.
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Communication. |
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Mass media -- China.
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Mass media. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zhao, Yuezhi. Communication in China : Political Economy, Power, and Conflict. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008 9780742519664 |
| ISBN |
9780742574281 (electronic book) |
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0742574288 (electronic book) |
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1299788491 (e-book) |
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9781299788497 (e-book) |
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