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The politics of Chinese media : consensus and contestation

Bingchun Meng (Author)
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
eBook, English, 2018
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2018
xi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
9781137462138, 9781137462145, 1137462132, 1137462140
1001548027
Introduction: Understanding the Politics of Chinese Media.- The Chinese State: Moving Left? Moving Right? or Depoliticized?.- Looking beyond the Liberal Lens: News Media as Contested Discursive Space.- The Cultural Politics of the Entertainment Media.- From Angry Youth to Anxious Parents: The Mediated Politics of Everyday Life.- Conclusion.