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Informationen zum Autor By Yuezhi Zhao Klappentext The stakes for control over the means of communication in China have never been so high as the country struggles with breathtaking social change. This authoritative book analyzes the key dimensions of the transformation in China's communication system since the early 1990s and examines the highly fluid and potentially explosive dynamics of communication, power, and social contestation during China's rapid rise as a global power. Yuezhi Zhao begins with an analysis of the party-state's reconfiguration of political, economic, and ideological power in the Chinese communication system. She then explores the processes and social implications of domestic and foreign capital formation in the communication industry. Drawing on media and Internet debates on fundamental political, economic, and social issues in contemporary China, the book concludes with a nuanced depiction of the pitched and uneven battles for access and control among different social forces. Locating developments in Chinese communication within the nexus of state, market, and society, the author analyzes how the legacies of socialism continue to cast a long shadow. The book not only provides a multifaceted and interdisciplinary portrait of contemporary Chinese communication, but also explores profound questions regarding the nature of the state, the dynamics of class formation, and the trajectory of China's epochal social 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...
