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Media and Cultural Transformation in China (Hardcover)
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Media and Cultural Transformation in China (Hardcover)
Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
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This book examines the role played by the media in China's cultural
transformation in the early years of the 21st century. In contrast
to the traditional view that sees the Chinese media as nothing more
than a tool of communist propaganda, it demonstrates that the media
is integral to China's changing culture in the age of
globalization, whilst also being part and parcel of the State and
its project of re-imagining national identity that is essential to
the post-socialist reform agenda. It describes how the Party-state
can effectively use media events to pull social, cultural and
political resources and forces together in the name of national
rejuvenation. However, it also illustrates how non-state actors can
also use reporting of media events to dispute official narratives
and advance their own interests and perspectives. It discusses the
implications of this interplay between state and non-state actors
in the Chinese media for conceptions of identity, citizenship and
ethics, identifying the areas of mutual accommodation and
appropriation, as well as those of conflict and contestation. It
explores these themes with detailed analysis of four important
'media spectacles': the media events surrounding the new millennium
celebrations; the news reporting of SARS; the media stories about
AIDS and SARS; and the media campaign war between the Chinese state
and the Falun Gong movement.
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