Chinese Media Global Contexts

This book provides expert, up-to-date and multidisciplinary analyses on how the contemporary media functions in China, a country with a large population and a growing economy. The book discusses the major debates surrounding the national and the global in Chinese media, how the media glorify two global events as national achievements - the accession to the World Trade Organization, and sponsorship of the 2008 Olympics Games -, how Chinese youths' images of the United States reveal both a positive domestic life and an negative world hegemony, the implications of the response of the new media to the emergence of civil society, commercial culture, and to the state control of the media, the conflict Review: Chinese Media, Global Context is replete with theoretical references to a wide range of political economists and philosophers, from Foucault to Gramsci to Chomsky and beyond.

Virtually every major media, information, and telecommunications investment in the world is significantly tied to China. This volume provides expert, up-to-date and multidisciplinary analyses on how the contemporary media functions in potentially the world's largest market. As the West, particularly the United States, tries to integrate China into the civilized world through the neoliberal regime of global capitalism, Chinese Media, Global Contexts asks how globalizing forces will clash with nationalist feelings to shape China's media discourses and ideology. This book provides up-to-date, multidisciplinary analyses of - the major debates surrounding the national and the global in Chinese media; how the media glorify two global events as national achievements - the accession to the World Trade Organization, and sponsorship of the 2008 Olympics Games; how Chinese youths' images of the United States reveal both a positive domestic life and an negative world hegemony; the implications of the response of the new media to the emergence of civil society , commercial culture and to the state control of the media; the problems facing the national informatization effort; the conflict Review: Chinese Media, Global Context is replete with theoretical references to a wide range of political economists and philosophers, from Foucault to Gramsci to Chomsky and beyond.. - Business Horizons, Ronald J. Deibert