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A systematic examination of Chinese communication scholarship and comprehensive critique of its theories and methodologies are long overdue, and in this new collection of essays by a multicultural group of scholars, both aims are achieved. Focusing on such relatively new fields as Chinese health communication and Chinese communication on the internet, the volume addresses key questions about the state and the future of its field. Both challenging and complementing the Western views of communication, it advances theories of cultural and intercultural communication while at the same time broadening our understanding of the relevance of Chinese communication studies to communication studies overall, and the ways in which this subdiscipline points the way toward a new and more complicated future.
The essayists, whose origins include the United States, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China, bring their many perspectives to bear on what is the most comprehensive and inclusive review of Chinese communication research literature published in English. Of great benefit to Western and Eastern communication theorists, philosophers of social science, and Asian studies scholars,
Chinese Communication Theory and Research is an invaluable guide to an increasingly complex and significant field of study.
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Introduction: The Significance of Chinese Communication Theory and Research in a Globalized World by Wenshan Jia
The State of the FieldCommunication Studies in China: State of the Art by Zhenbin Sun
Intercultural/Interpersonal Communication Research in China: A Preliminary Review by Ge Gao and Xiaosui Xiao
Chinese Communication Theory and Research: A Tier-Based Perspective by John H. Powers
Meta-Thoeretical CritiqueA Critical Examination of the Eurocentric Representation of Chinese Communication by Rueyling Chuang and Claudia L. Hale
Masculinity Index and Communication Style: An East Asian View by John C. Hwang
Theory and Research in ContextComparative Studies of Chinese and Western Rhetorics: Reflections and Challenges by Xing Lu
"Assimilation of Western Learning": An Overlooked Area of Intercultural Communication by Xiaosui Xiao
Research on Chinese Communication Campaigns: A Historical Review by Jianglong Wang
Balancing Ideals and Interests: Toward a Chinese Perspective of Development Communication by Yanru Chen
Theory and Research in ContextChinese Health Communication in the Old and New Millennia by Mei-ling Wang
What We Still Need to Know About Chinese Negotiation by Deborah A. Cai and Leah Waks
Advertising with Chinese Characteristics: The Development of Advertising in China, 1979-1999 by Zhihong Gao
Challenges of GlobalizationThe Interface Between Culture and Technology in Chinese Communication by Ringo Ma
Computer-Mediated Communication: Internet Development and New Challenges in China by James Jinguo Shen
The Essential Role of Chinese as the World's Leading Logographic Writing System in Global Communication by Virginia Mansfield-Richardson
Problems and Prospects of Chinese Communication Study by Guo-Ming Chen
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WENSHAN JIA is Assistant Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication and Media at the State University of New York, New Paltz. A scholar of intercultural communication theory, he is the author of
The Remaking of the Chinese Character and Identity in the 21st Century: Chinese Face Practices (Ablex, 2001) and the co-editor of
Chinese Communication Studies: Contexts and Comparisons (Ablex, 2002).
XING LU is Associate Professor in the Department of Communications at DePaul University. The author of
Rhetoric in Ancient China: Fifth to Third Century B.C.E.: A Comparison with Classical Greek Rhetoric, she is also the co-editor of
Chinese Communication Studies: Contexts and Comparisons (Ablex, 2002).
D. RAY HEISEY is Professor and Director Emeritus at the School of Communication Studies at Kent State University. The author of many journal articles and book chapters, he is also the editor of
Chinese Perspectives in Rhetoric and Communication (Ablex, 2000) and the co-editor of
Chinese Communication Studies: Contexts and Comparisons (Ablex, 2002).
