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The new 2nd edition of this successful Handbook explores the growing and evolving field of Chinese media, offering a window to observe multi-directional flows of information, culture and communications within the contexts of globalization and regionalization.
List of contents
Introduction
Part 1: The Development of the Study of Chinese Media 1. China, Soft Power and Cultural Imperialism 2. Cyber Security, Cyber Sovereignty and Cyber Governance: The Party-State's Approach to Controlling and Harnessing the Internet in China 3. The Future of Work: Digital Labour Research in China 4. Using Netnography to Study Chinese Social Media: A Methodological Reflection 5. #MilkTeaAlliance as Minor Solidarity: How a Taiwan-Centred Perspective Engages and Challenges the Global South Theoretical Framework
Part 2: Journalism, Press Freedom and Social Mobilisation 6. Press Freedom in Post-National Security Law Hong Kong 7. Media and Social Mobilisation in Hong Kong 8. Localisation as Negotiation: Practising Solutions Journalism in Hong Kong 9. Mechanisms to Deal with Misinformation and Disinformation in Taiwan: Covid-19 and Beyond 10. Contested and Negotiated Discourses: Media Framing of LGBTQ Issues in Taiwan 11. The Manufacturing of 'Correct Collective Memory' in Chinese Media and the Resistance of Chinese Netizens: From the Covid-19 Outbreak to the Blank White Paper Movement
Part 3: The Internet, Public Sphere and Media Culture 12. Digital Media and Politics in China 13. Chinese Nationalism in the Age of Social Media: Competing Actors, Discourses and Interests 14. Online
Tucao Subculture in China: A Case Study of
Youni Discourse on Weibo 15. Popular Feminism with Chinese Characteristics: A Feminist Study of the First Season of Reality TV Show
Sisters Who Make Waves 16. Comparing Utopias: Shifts in Cinematic Representations of Chinese Power in 'New Mainstream' Films 17. Guiding the Public: Documentary Films in China 18. Museum Collections and Literary Games in Taiwan:
The Crazy Gods Show and
Literature Lockdown Part 4: Market, Production and the Media Industries 19. The Evolution of Media in Macao: From the Jesuit Press to the Digital Age 20. Gamers, the State and Online Games 21.
Wuxia in the Digital Realm: Transmedia Storytelling and Player Immersion in Role-Playing Games 22. Copyright and China's Evolving Media Economy: From Marketisation to Platformisation 23. Navigating Copyright in China's Digital Music Ecosystem: Socially Mediated Discourses and Legal Reforms 24. Crafting Visibility: Authenticity, Intimacy and Networked Relations in Chinese Online Celebrity Culture
Part 5: Chinese Media and the World 25. From Institutional Nationalism to Platform Cosmopolitanism: A Genealogical Review of China's Global Communication Strategy 26. Broadcasting China: Strategies and Trends in the Global Expansion of Chinese Television 27. The Unresolvable Imbalances of China's English-Language Media: The Case of CGTN 28. China's Soft Power and Documentary Co-production: Navigating Public Diplomacy in the Covid and Post-Covid Era 29. Transnational Platform Governance amid Geopolitical Rivalries: The Case of TikTok in Sino-India Relations
About the author
Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley is Research Associate, Centre of Taiwan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Yiben Ma is the convenor of the Preliminary Year Programme for International Communications Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.
Gary D. Rawnsley is Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences and Professor of Public Diplomacy at the University of Lincoln.
