Description
The study of Chinese media is a field that is growing and evolving at an exponential rate. Not only are the Chinese media a fascinating subject for analysis in their own right, but they also offer scholars and students a window to observe multi-directional flows of information, culture and communications within the contexts of globalization and regionalization. Moreover, the study of Chinese media provides an invaluable opportunity to test and refine the variety of communications theories that researchers have used to describe, analyse, compare and contrast systems of communications.
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media is a prestigious reference work providing an overview of the study of Chinese media. Gary and Ming-Yeh Rawnsley bring together an interdisciplinary perspective with contributions by an international team of renowned scholars on subjects such as television, journalism and the internet and social media. Locating Chinese media within a regional setting by focusing on ‘Greater China’, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and overseas Chinese communities; the chapters highlight the convergence of media and platforms in the region; and emphasise the multi-directional and trans-national character of media/information flows in East Asia.
Contributing to the growing de-westernization of media and communications studies; this handbook is an essential and comprehensive reference work for students of all levels and scholars in the fields of Chinese Studies and Media Studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction Gary D. Rawnsley & Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley Part 1: The Development of the Study and the Structure of Chinese Media 1. (Re)-Focusing on the Target: Reflections on a Trajectory of Studying the Chinese Media Yuezhi Zhao 2. China, Soft Power and Imperialism Colin Sparks 3. Evaluating Chinese Media Policy: Objectives and Contradictions Rogier Creemers Part 2: Journalism, Press Freedom and Social Mobilisation 4. Western Missionaries and Origins of the Modern Chinese Press Yuntao Zhang 5. Setting the Press Boundaries: The Case of the Southern (Nanfang) Media Group Chujie Chen 6. Chinese Investigative Journalism in the Twenty-First Century Hugo de Burgh 7. From Control to Competition: A Comparative Study of the Party Press and Popular Press Hsiao-wen Lee 8. Press Freedom in Hong Kong: Interactions between State, Media and Society Francis L. F. Lee 9. Media and Social Mobilisation in Hong Kong Joseph M. Chan and Francis L. F. Lee 10. Citizen Journalists as an Empowering Community for Change: A Case Study of a Taiwanese Online Platform ‘PeoPo’ Chen-ling Hung Part 3: The Internet, Public Sphere and Media Culture 11. Politics and Social Media in China Lars Willnat, Lu Wei and Jason A. Martin 12. Online Chinese Nationalism and Its Nationalist Discourses Yiben Ma 13. A Cyberconflict Analysis of Chinese Dissidents Focusing on Civil Society, Mass Incidents and Labour Resistance Athina Karatzogianni and Andrew Robinson 14. Workers and Peasants as Historical Subjects: The Formation of Working Class Media Cultures in China Wanning Sun 15. An Emerging Middle Class Public Sphere in China? Analysis of News Media Representation of ‘Self Tax Declaration’ Qian (Sarah) Gong 16. Expressing Myself, Connecting with You: Taiwanese Young Females’ Photographic Self-Portraiture on Wretch Album Yin-han Wang 17. Against the Grain: The Battle for Public Service Broadcasting in Taiwan Chun-wei Daniel Lin 18. Public Service Television in China Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley and Chien-san Feng Part 4: Market, Production and the Media Industries 19. The Changing Role of Copyright in China’s Emergent Media Economy Lucy Montgomery and Xiang Ren 20. Gamers, State and Online Games Anthony Y. H. Fung 21. The Geographical Clustering of Chinese Media Production Michael Keane 22. The Politics and Poetics of Television Documentary in China Qing Cao 23. Contemporary Chinese Historical TV Drama as a Cultural Genre: Production, Consumption and the State Power George Dawei Guo 24. Live Television Production of Media Events in China: The Case of the Beijing Olympic Games Limin Liang 25. Negotiated Discursive Struggles in Hyper-Marketised and Oligopolistic Media System: The Case of Hong Kong Charles Chi-wai Cheung Part 5: Chinese Media and the World 26. Internationalisation of China’s Television: History, Development and New Trends Junhao Hong and Youling Liu 27. Decoding the Chinese Media in Flux: American Correspondents as an Interpretive Community Yunya Song 28. Chinese International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy and Soft Power Gary Rawnsley
