Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/67USuJA Media and Cultural Transformation in China By: Haiqing Yu Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415447553, 0415447550 eText ISBN: 9781134062263, 1134062265 Edition: 1st Pages: 240 Copyright year: 2009 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.98 USD SKU 9781134062263R90 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. Additional ISBNs 9780415673716, 0415673712
