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Maria Repnikova offers an innovative analysis of the media oversight role in China by examining how a volatile partnership is sustained between critical journalists and the state.
List of contents
Part I. Conceptual Frameworks: 1. Introduction; 2. Payoffs; Part II. Mutual Objectives and Routine Dynamics: 3. Unified objectives: the official discourse and journalistic interpretation of media supervision; 4. Restrictions on critical journalism: how they are applied and negotiated; Part III. Crisis Events: 5. Critical journalists, the party-state and the Wenchuan earthquake; 6. The battle over coal-mining safety; Part IV. Comparisons: 7. Beyond China: critical journalists and the state under Gorbachev and Putin; 8. From Hu to Xi.
About the author
Maria Repnikova is a scholar of comparative authoritarianism and political communication in illiberal contexts, with a focus on China and Russia. She holds a Doctorate in Politics from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. In the past, Repnikova has researched Chinese migration to Russia as a Fulbright Fellow and held the Overseas Press Club fellowship in Beijing, and she was also a post-doctoral fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication. She speaks fluent Mandarin and Russian, and has spent extensive time in both China and Russia. She teaches international communication, Chinese media politics and society and information politics in non-democratic regimes.
Summary
Maria Repnikova examines the web of media politics in China, demonstrating how a media oversight role works in the improbable context of a one-party state. Through an analysis of the uneasy partnership between critical journalists and the state, this book provides fresh empirical and theoretical insights into Chinese politics, comparative authoritarianism and global communication.
