This book argues that a combination of property rights reform, administrative fragmentation,
and technological advance has caused the post-Mao Chinese state to lose a significant …

Click here to hear Anne-Marie Brady's BBC World Service radio documentary titled" The
Message from China" China's government is no longer a Stalinist-Maoist dictatorship, yet it …

The stakes for control over the means of communication in China have never been so high
as the country struggles with breathtaking social change. This authoritative book analyzes …

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 …

In explaining the surprising staying power of the Chinese communist regime, analysts point
to a number of critical factors: the party-state's ability to recruit, monitor, and hold …

The post-Mao reform era in China has seen the demise of utopianism. Where once the
rhetoric of an unfolding socialist utopia worked to spur on the masses in their subjugation to …

" Democracy is a good thing. This is true not only for individuals or certain officials but also
for the entire nation and for all the people of China."–Yu Keping So begins" Democracy Is a …

This book offers an analytical account of the consensus and contestations of the politics of
Chinese media at both institutional and discursive levels. It considers the formal politics of …

In China today, a daily battle is waged between the state and society over “what is fit to
know”. This contest reflects and constitutes a central contradiction in Chinese politics …

In Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China's
“long 1990s,” the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and …