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This book looks at the development of Chinäs regulation of public communication: the press, radio, film, television and, in recent years, the Internet. It does so by contextualizing the development of black letter regulation against the background of political and social developments in China since the end of the Empire.
List of contents
Introduction 1. Governing the press during the Empire 2. New ideas and experimentation: information in the Republic 3. Early Communism 4. The shaky consensus of the Eighties 5. Liberalization and legalization: realizing the economic role of the media 6. The advent and regulation of the Internet 7. The international side of China's information order 8. After the Games: retrenchment and pushback
About the author
Rogier Creemers gained his PhD at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
Summary
This book looks at the development of China’s regulation of public communication: the press, radio, film, television and, in recent years, the Internet. It does so by contextualizing the development of black letter regulation against the background of political and social developments in China since the end of the Empire. Drawing extensively on primary source research, the book integrates three hitherto different strands of scholarship: the development of Chinese media law and regulation; the development of Chinese political thought and ideas, particularly with relation to the role of ideas, information and the exchange thereof; and the role of media in Chinese society and societal influence on media production and consumption.
