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Informationen zum Autor By Yuezhi Zhao Klappentext This authoritative study explores China's rapidly evolving polity, economy, and society through the prism of its communication system. Yuezhi Zhao offers a multifaceted, interdisciplinary analysis of communication in China and its central role in the struggle for control during the country's rise to global power. The industry in all its forms-ranging from the news media to entertainment outlets to the Internet-has been a critical battleground among different social forces in this period of wrenching change. The author explores alterations in the structure and content of Chinese communication in light of the rapid evolution of state-society relations to reveal the profoundly contradictory, conflicted, and uncertain nature of China's ongoing transformation. Zusammenfassung Explores China's rapidly evolving polity! economy! and society through the prism of its communication system. This study offers a multifaceted! interdisciplinary analysis of communication in China and its central role in the struggle for control during the country's rise to global power. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1: Reconfiguring Party-State Power: Market Reforms, Communication, and Control in the Digital AgeChapter 2: Securing the Commanding Heights: Class, Power, and the Transformation of the Party-State's Media and Culture SectorChapter 3: Dancing with Wolves? Transnational Capital, Nationalism, and the Terms of Global ReintegrationChapter 4: Entertaining the Masses: Domestic Private Capital, Popular Culture, and the Role of Cultural EntrepreneursChapter 5: Crusading for Civil Rights and Legal Justice: Possibilities and Limits of Media and Internet MobilizationChapter 6: Challenging Neoliberalism: The Lang Xianping Storm, Property Rights, and Economic JusticeConclusion
