Communications in Contemporary China
eBook - ePub

Communications in Contemporary China

Orchestrating Thinking

  1. 196 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Communications in Contemporary China

Orchestrating Thinking

About this book

Using the analogy of an orchestra, the book looks at the ways in which the Party-state conducts communications in China.

Rather than treating China's communications system as purely one of centralised top-down control, this book proffers that it is the combination of the government through its state policies, the propaganda bureau's campaigns, commercial consumer culture, digital and traditional media platforms, celebrities, entertainers and journalists, educators, community interest groups, and family and friends, who all contribute to the evolution of how ideas are perpetuated, enforced, and legitimised in China.

Covering themes such as censorship, surveillance, national narratives onscreen and in everyday life, political agency, creative work, news production, and gender politics, this book gives an insight into the complex web of conditions, objectives, and challenges that the Chinese leadership and commercial interests face when orchestrating their visions for the nation's future. As such, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of media and communication studies, Chinese politics, and Chinese Studies.

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Yes, you can access Communications in Contemporary China by Nicole Talmacs, Altman Yuzhu Peng, Nicole Talmacs,Altman Yuzhu Peng in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Politics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of contributors
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. List of abbreviations
  11. 1 Orchestrating thinking: communications in China
  12. 2 Internet censorship in China: a functioning digital panopticon
  13. 3 Political control, media marketisation, and news production
  14. 4 The American Other and China's big screens
  15. 5 Public relations, persona-building, and national identity construction in China: a case study of ā€˜The Chinese Dreamā€™
  16. 6 Constructing a discourse of ā€˜Red meritā€™: the orchestrated communication of China's ā€˜Red Collectorsā€™
  17. 7 The construction of patriotism in primary school Chinese language textbooks
  18. 8 Orchestrating opinions: a case study of mainland Chinese responses to Hong Kong's mass protests
  19. 9 The discursive battle over public participation in China
  20. 10 ā€œOur sugar daddy can never control usā€: how television professionals negotiate with market forces in Chinese entertainment shows
  21. 11 Digital business governance: the algorithm design of the short video-sharing application - TikTok
  22. 12 Male anxiety and self-victimisation: Chinese young men's perception of gender dynamics and intimacy
  23. 13 Neoliberal femininities in China: the conflicting gender discourse of transgender celebrity, Jin Xing
  24. Index