1st Edition

China's Media, Media's China

Edited By Chin-Chuan Lee Copyright 1994
    350 Pages
    by Routledge

    350 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book explores the rapidly evolving conditions of political communication in China. It examines how ideology and professional roles affect both scholarly and journalistic understanding of China. The book offers insights into Chinese journalism and Sino-American relations. .

    Note on Romanization -- Overview -- Ambiguities and Contradictions: Issues in China's Changing Political Communication -- Control, Change, and Opposition -- The Role of the Press in Post-Mao Political Struggles -- The Use and Abuse of Mass Media by Chinese Leaders During the 1980s -- China's Legitimacy Crisis: The Central Role of Information -- Chinese Communist Ideology and Media Control -- The Politics of Publicity in Reform China -- Striving for Predictability: The Bureaucratization of Media Management in China -- The Oppositional Decoding of China's Leninist Media -- Press Control in New China and Old China -- Sparking a Fire: The Press and the Ferment of Democratic Change in Taiwan -- Ideology, Knowledge, and Professionalism -- The American Correspondent in China -- The Historical Fate of “Objective Reporting” in China -- Fighting Against the Odds: Hong Kong Journalists in Transition -- Frost on the Mirror: An American Understanding of China in the Cold War Era -- Push and Pull: A Chinese-American Journalist’s “Home Journeys” -- The Voice of America and China -- U.S. Media Coverage of the Cultural Revolution: A Postscript