Chinese Media, Global Contexts

Virtually every major media, information and telecommunications enterprise in the world is significantly tied to China. This volume provides the most expert, up to date and multidisciplinary analyses on how the contemporary media function in what has rapidly become the world's biggest market.
Table of contents
1 The global and the national of the Chinese media: discourses, market, technology, and ideology
CHIN-CHUAN LEE
2 “Enter the World”: neo-liberal globalization, the dream for a strong nation, and Chinese press discourses on the WTO
YUEZHI ZHAO
3 Capturing the flame: aspirations and representations of Beijing’s 2008 Olympics
JUDY POLUMBAUM
4 Established pluralism: U. S. elite media discourse on China policy
CHIN-CHUAN LEE
5 Chinese media and youth: attitudes toward nationalism and internationalism
STANLEY ROSEN
6 Political drama and news narratives: presidential summits on Chinese and U. S. national television
TSAN-KUO GHANG
7 Globalization and the Chinese media: technologies, content, commerce and the prospects for the public sphere
BARRETT L. MCCORMICK & QING LIU
8 Administrative boundaries and media marketization: a comparative analysis of the newspaper, TV and Internet markets in China
JOSEPH MAN CHAN
9 West Lake wired: shaping Hangzhou’s information age
KATHLEEN HARTFORD
10 How do the Chinese media reduce organizational incongruence? Bureaucratic capitalism in the name of Communism
ZHOU HE
11 Localizing professionalism: discursive practices in China’s media reforms
ZHONGDANG PAN & YE LU
12 The future of Chinese cinema: some lessons from Hong Kong and Taiwan
MICHAEL CURTIN
13 Marketing popular culture in China: Andy Lau as a pan-Chinese icon
ANTHONY FUNG