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Communication, Public Opinion, and Globalization in Urban China (Hardcover, New)
Francis L.F. Lee, Chin-Chuan Lee, Mike Z. Yao, Tsan-Kuo Chang, Fen Jennifer Lin, …
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As China is increasingly integrated into the processes of economic,
political, social, and cultural globalization, important questions
arise about how Chinese people perceive and evaluate such
processes. At the same time, international communication scholars
have long been interested in how local, national, and transnational
media communications shape people's attitudes and values. Combining
these two concerns, this book examines a range of questions
pertinent to public opinion toward globalization in urban China: To
what degree are the urban residents in China exposed to the
influences from the outside world? How many transnational social
connections does a typical urban Chinese citizen have? How often do
they consume foreign media? To what extent are they aware of the
notion of globalization, and what do they think about it? Do they
believe that globalization is beneficial to China, to the city
where they live, and to them personally? How do people's social
connections and communication activities shape their views toward
globalization and the outside world? This book tackles these and
other questions systematically by analyzing a four-city comparative
survey of urban Chinese residents, demonstrating the complexities
of public opinion in China. Media consumption does relate, though
by no means straightforwardly, to people's attitudes and beliefs,
and this book provides much needed information and insights about
Chinese public opinion on globalization. It also develops fresh
conceptual and empirical insights on issues such as public opinion
toward US-China relations, Chinese people's nationalistic
sentiments, and approaches to analyze attitudes toward
globalization.
As China is increasingly integrated into the processes of economic,
political, social, and cultural globalization, important questions
arise about how Chinese people perceive and evaluate such
processes. At the same time, international communication scholars
have long been interested in how local, national, and transnational
media communications shape people's attitudes and values. Combining
these two concerns, this book examines a range of questions
pertinent to public opinion toward globalization in urban China: To
what degree are the urban residents in China exposed to the
influences from the outside world? How many transnational social
connections does a typical urban Chinese citizen have? How often do
they consume foreign media? To what extent are they aware of the
notion of globalization, and what do they think about it? Do they
believe that globalization is beneficial to China, to the city
where they live, and to them personally? How do people's social
connections and communication activities shape their views toward
globalization and the outside world? This book tackles these and
other questions systematically by analyzing a four-city comparative
survey of urban Chinese residents, demonstrating the complexities
of public opinion in China. Media consumption does relate, though
by no means straightforwardly, to people's attitudes and beliefs,
and this book provides much needed information and insights about
Chinese public opinion on globalization. It also develops fresh
conceptual and empirical insights on issues such as public opinion
toward US-China relations, Chinese people's nationalistic
sentiments, and approaches to analyze attitudes toward
globalization.
In 1973, Western music was banned in the People's Republic of
China. But in a remarkable breakthrough cultural exchange, the
Philadelphia Orchestra conducted a tour of closed-off China,
becoming the first American orchestra to visit the communist
nation. Jennifer Lin's Beethoven in Beijing provides a fabulous
photo-rich oral history of this boundary-breaking series of
concerts the orchestra performed under famed conductor Eugene
Ormandy. Lin draws from interviews, personal diaries, and news
accounts to give voice to the American and Chinese musicians,
diplomats, journalists, and others who participated in and
witnessed this historic event. Beethoven in Beijing is filled with
glorious images as well as anecdotes ranging from amusing sidewalk
Frisbee sessions and acupuncture treatments for sore musicians to a
tense encounter involving Madame Mao dictating which symphony was
to be played at a concert. A companion volume to the film of the
same name, Beethoven in Beijing shows how this 1973 tour came at
the dawn of a resurgence of interest in classical music in
China-now a vital source of revenue for touring orchestras.
More than 11 million women run regularly, a number that's growing
every year. They tend to be educated and affluent-the perfect
audience for "Sole Sisters."
Half of all runners are women, and they are changing the face of
the sport. It's a social outlet, a healthful way to improve mental
well-being, and an opportunity to form bonds with like-minded
women.
"Sole Sisters: Stories of Women and Running" is a gripping
collection of stories that captures the inspirational heart of the
women's running. Authors Jennifer Lin and Susan Warner have
interviewed women of all ages from all walks of life and all parts
of the country. All of their subjects have one thing in common:
Running has transformed them. There are both heartrending stories
of grief and survival and lighthearted tales of friendship. Among
them are:
* Sisters who competed in a 5K race to honor a sister who survived
breast cancer.
* A 9/11 widow who ran her first marathon to honor the memory of
her husband.
* A 65-year-old woman who overcame obesity and alcoholism to finish
the grueling Ironman triathlon.
* An unknown runner from Norway named Grete Waitz who decided to
run a marathon-and changed the face of the sport.
"Sole Sisters: Stories of Women and Running" is not just for women
who run. It appeals to all women who know what it means to have the
support of others who share their trials and triumphs. "Sole
Sisters: Stories of Women and Running" is sometimes touching,
sometimes funny, and always inspiring.
What if rhetoric and climate are intimately connected? Taking
climates to be rhetorical and rhetoric to be climatic, A Reading
Group offers a generative framework for making sense of rhetorical
studies as they grapple with the challenges posed by antiracist,
decolonial, affective, ecological, and more-than-human scholarship
to a tradition with a long history of being centered around
individual, usually privileged, human agents wielding language as
their principal instrument. Understanding the atmospheric and
ambient energies of rhetoric underscores the challenges and
promises of trying to heal a harmed world from within it. A
cowritten “multigraph,” which began in 2018 as a reading group,
this book enacts an intimate, mutualistic spirit of shared critical
inquiry and play—an exciting new way of doing, thinking, and
feeling rhetorical studies by six prominent scholars in rhetoric
from communication and English departments alike.
This ground-breaking text gathers the foremost researchers,
scholars, and practitioners to describe and define the new and
burgeoning field of improvement-focused educational research and
practice. The handbook represents the breadth and depth of
improvement-focused educational research and the diversity of
improvement efforts underway, covering the historical and
theoretical foundations of improvement, the varied contexts of and
approaches to improvement, and the designs, strategies, and tools
of continuous improvement.
This ground-breaking text gathers the foremost researchers,
scholars, and practitioners to describe and define the new and
burgeoning field of improvement-focused educational research and
practice. The handbook represents the breadth and depth of
improvement-focused educational research and the diversity of
improvement efforts underway, covering the historical and
theoretical foundations of improvement, the varied contexts of and
approaches to improvement, and the designs, strategies, and tools
of continuous improvement.
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