Media Transparency In China

Author : Baohui Xie
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739183274

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Media Transparency in China by Baohui Xie Pdf

This book argues that the gap between the official transparency rhetoric and the censorship reality has demonstrated the discrepancy between what the Party is and what it claims to be. Such a discrepancy is manifested by the reality that the reformed news industry, a hybrid of market-oriented commercialization and party-state control, has largely failed to deliver either the voice of the disenfranchised groups or the value of journalism. To observe the discrepancy, this book investigates the role of transparency in the Chinese news media. Media transparency, which goes beyond the issue of censorship and press freedom, has been undermined by the consensus reached between the party-state and the media on political and market control. It is this mutually accommodating and benefiting scheme between power and profits that has been hollowing out the substance of the transparency rhetoric and distorting the Marxist idea of press freedom as freedom for all. This book argues that the cause of such a gap between rhetoric and reality is rooted in the disjuncture of political representation of both the party-state and the profit-seeking media.

Author : Guan Jun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538142288

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Silencing Chinese Media by Guan Jun Pdf

Chinese media in the reform era walk a fine line between commercialized diversification and party-state control. Nowhere have these two trends been in more open conflict than at Southern Weekly (Nanfang Zhoumo), a Guangzhou-based newspaper known for reliably pushing the envelope on media controls. Soon after a new group of political leaders rose to power in early 2013, these tensions boiled over, with censors making draconian cuts to the paper’s New Year’s edition. Fiery debates raged inside the paper about how to push back against ever-tightening constraints on reporting, while daring public protests outside the paper’s headquarters demanded freedom of speech. As the protests came to an end, the party-state’s hold on media had only tightened. Silencing Chinese Media, a gripping insider’s account of these events, highlights the tensions inherent within the program of “reform and opening” and foreshadows the challenges facing Chinese media and civil society in this new era.

Author : Daya Kishan Thussu,Hugo de Burgh,Anbin Shi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317214618

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China's Media Go Global by Daya Kishan Thussu,Hugo de Burgh,Anbin Shi Pdf

As part of its ‘going out’ strategy, China is using the media to promote its views and vision to the wider world and to counter negative images in the US-dominated international media. China’s Media Go Global, the first edited collection on this subject, evaluates how the unprecedented expansion of Chinese media and communications is changing the global media landscape and the role of China within it. Each chapter examines a different dimension of Chinese media’s globalization, from newspapers, radio, film and television, to social media and journalism. Topics include the rise of Chinese news networks, China Daily as an instrument of China’s public diplomacy and the discussion around the growth of China’s state media in Africa. Other chapters discuss entertainment television, financial media and the advertising market in China. Together, this collection of essays offers a comprehensive evaluation of complex debates concerning the impact of China on the international media landscape, and makes a distinctive addition to Chinese media studies, as well as to broader global media discourses. Beyond its primary readership among academics and students, China’s Media Go Global is aimed at the growing constituency of general readers, for whom the role of the media in globalization is of wider interest.

Author : Todd Hazelbarth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015042151095

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The Chinese Media by Todd Hazelbarth Pdf

Author : Hugo de Burgh
Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Mass media
ISBN : 9781908684349

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China's Media in the Emerging World Order by Hugo de Burgh Pdf

China is challenging the mighty behemoths, Google and Facebook, and creating alternative New Media. 750 million people are active on its Social Mediascape and there are a billion mobile phones deploying the innovative apps with which the Chinese conduct their lives. Though late starters, already four of the world's leading New Media companies are Chinese. China's old media - television, newspapers, radio - challenge the established powers which were long thought unassailable, such as CNN and BBC. Produced in many languages on every continent, they are re-defining the agenda and telling the story in China's way, with not just news and documentary series but also entertainment. The world's biggest manufacturer of TV drama is now making its stories for export. China's Media tells you why and how. It investigates the Chinese media, their strengths and weaknesses and how they are different. from the West. This detailed and comprehensive guide aims to showcase their immense variety and diversity, and demonstrates how they came to be a powerful new force in the media world.

Author : Chin-Chuan Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367011891

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China's Media, Media's China by Chin-Chuan Lee Pdf

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 1949 and on Taiwan afterward? What is the relevance of the Taiwan experience to understanding changes in China's media? The contributors go on to examine how ideology, the available body of knowledge, and professional roles affect both scholarly and journalistic understanding of China. They strive to answer a second set of questions: How has the cold war shaped the picture Westerners have constructed of China? What impact do the U.S. media have on Chinese politics, and what sort of new challenges does the U.S. journalist face in China? In light of the checkered history of "objective" reporting in China, how do Hong Kong journalists attempt to protect press freedom during the political transition? Bringing together a wide-ranging group of experts, including media scholars, historians, political scientists, journalists, and policymakers, this book is both path-breaking and thought-provoking. Offering fresh insights into Chinese journalism and Sino-American relations, this volume will be important reading for students, scholars, and the general reader.

Author : Susan L. Shirk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199751976

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Changing Media, Changing China by Susan L. Shirk Pdf

Thirty years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a fateful decision: to allow newspapers, magazines, television, and radio stations to compete in the marketplace instead of being financed exclusively by the government. The political and social implications of that decision are still unfolding as the Chinese government, media, and public adapt to the new information environment. Edited by Susan Shirk, one of America's leading experts on contemporary China, this collection of essays brings together a who's who of experts--Chinese and American--writing about all aspects of the changing media landscape in China. In detailed case studies, the authors describe how the media is reshaping itself from a propaganda mouthpiece into an agent of watchdog journalism, 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 open marketplace and the CCP censors. China has over 360 million Internet users, more than any other country, and an astounding 162 million bloggers. The growth of Internet access has dramatically increased the information available, the variety and timeliness of the news, and its national and international reach. But China is still far from having a free press. As of 2008, the international NGO Freedom House ranked China 181 worst out of 195 countries in terms of press restrictions, and Chinese journalists have been aptly described as "dancing in shackles." The recent controversy over China's censorship of Google highlights the CCP's deep ambivalence toward information freedom. Covering everything from the rise of business media and online public opinion polling to environmental journalism and the effect of media on foreign policy, Changing Media, Changing China reveals how the most populous nation on the planet is reacting to demands for real news.

Author : Todd Hazelbarth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : China
ISBN : IND:30000050412216

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The Chinese Media by Todd Hazelbarth Pdf

Author : Yuezhi Zhao
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Government and the press
ISBN : 0252066782

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Media, Market, and Democracy in China by Yuezhi Zhao Pdf

Media, Market, and Democracy in China is an astonishingly close look at the intertwining nature of the Communist Party and the news media in China, how they affect each other, and what the future might hold for each. How do market forces influence the media in China? How does the Party both introduce and try to contain the market's influence? How do commercial imperatives both accommodate and challenge Party control? To answer these and other questions, Yuezhi Zhao interviewed a wide range of scholars, media administrators, and media professionals. During five months in China in 1994 and 1995, she monitored media content, carried out extensive documentary research in Beijing, and held off-the-record meetings with Chinese media insiders. The first study of its kind to trace the Chinese print and broadcast media from the 1920s to 1996, this work will be must reading for students of journalism, mass communications, political science, and China studies, as well as for media and business professionals and policy makers who need to understand what's happening to China and its mass media.

Author : Bingchun Meng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Communication
ISBN : 1349690368

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The Politics of Chinese Media by Bingchun Meng Pdf

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

Author : Jinquan Li
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822018700070

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China's Media, Media's China by Jinquan Li Pdf

Scholar and journalist contributors explore the rapidly evolving conditions of political communication in China. Issues considered include the bureaucratization of media control; how ideology and professional roles affect both scholarly and journalistic thought in China; how the media has been used in the service of the regime; how the Cold War has shaped the picture Westerners have of China; and challenges faced by US journalists in China. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Gabriele Balbi,Jiang Fei,Giuseppe Richeri
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527537422

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China and the Global Media Landscape by Gabriele Balbi,Jiang Fei,Giuseppe Richeri Pdf

In the last decade, the Chinese media have imposed themselves in the global arena and have started to become a reference point, in business and cultural terms, for other national media systems. This book explores how the global media landscape was changed by this revolutionary trend, and why and how China is now playing a key role in guiding it. It is, on the one hand, a book on how the Chinese media system continues to take inspiration and to be shaped (or remapped) by American, European and Asian media companies, and, on the other, a volume on the ways in which recent Chinese media’s “going out” strategy is remapping the global media landscape. Organised into two sections, this book has eight chapters written by American, Chinese and European scholars. Focusing on different markets (such as the movie industry, the press, broadcasting, and the Internet), different regions and different actors (from Donald Trump to the Tanzania-Zambia Railway to journalists), this book provides a fresh interpretation on the main changes China has brought to the global media landscape.

Author : David Bandurski,Martin Hala
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622091740

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Investigative Journalism in China by David Bandurski,Martin Hala Pdf

Despite persistent pressure from state censors and other tools of political control, investigative journalism has flourished in China over the last decade. This volume offers a comprehensive, first-hand look at investigative journalism in China, including insider accounts from reporters behind some of China's top stories in recent years. While many outsiders hold on to the stereotype of Chinese journalists as docile, subservient Party hacks, a number of brave Chinese reporters have exposed corruption and official misconduct with striking ingenuity and often at considerable personal sacrifice. Subjects have included officials pilfering state funds, directors of public charities pocketing private donations, businesses fleecing unsuspecting consumers - even the misdeeds of journalists themselves. These case studies address critical issues of commercialization of the media, the development of ethical journalism practices, the rising specter of "news blackmail," negotiating China's mystifying bureaucracy, the dangers of libel suits, and how political pressures impact different stories. During fellowships at the Journalism & Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong, these narratives and other background materials were fact-checked and edited by JMSC staff to address critical issues related to the media transitions currently under way in the PRC. This engaging narrative gives readers a vivid sense of how journalism is practiced in China. --David Bandurski is a scholar at the University of Hong Kong's China Media Project, a research and fellowship initiative of the Journalism & Media Studies Centre. Martin Hala has taught journalism at the Universities in Prague and Bratislava. -

Author : Xiaoling Zhang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814340946

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The Transformation of Political Communication in China by Xiaoling Zhang Pdf

This book examines different dynamics such as marketisation, globalisation and new media technologies that have driven the transformation of China''s media industry OCo one of the primary battlegrounds where ideological, social and economic struggles are fought OCo against the backdrop of the growing tensions between economic growth, globalisation, and political control in China.

Author : Lee Chin-Chuan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134412419

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Chinese Media, Global Contexts by Lee Chin-Chuan Pdf

"This book provides the most expert, up-to-date, and multidisciplinary analyses on how the contemporary media function in that is rapidly becoming the world's largest market. As the West, particularly the United States, tries to integrate China into the 'civilized world' through the extension of global capitalism, Chinese Media, Global Contexts examines how globalizing forces clash with Chinese nationalism to shape China's media discourses and ideology. Conversely, this book also asks if the media provide a site and forum for contestation between different social classes and ideologies in China."--Back cover.