China has entered a new information age that calls for a reconsideration of some key
presuppositions about the relationship between Chinese media, communication, society …

Digital telecommunication technology has expanded the potential of the mobile phone to be
used increasingly as a weapon against authoritarian rule and censorship. Since the content …

As communism loses its tenets as a genuinely believed ideology and becomes a ritualized
facet of a regime that strives to prolong and justify its politically and morally shaky mandate …

This book addresses, as few books in English have, a broad range of topics pertaining to
China's expanding media and telecommunications systems. American and Chinese experts …

Rapid changes in China are filled with “contradictions and ambiguities”(Lee, 1994). They
have engendered a deep-seated legitimacy crisis not only of a state that is still monopolized …

Mediatization has become a fact of life in China, as have globalization, urbanization, and
commercialization. Yet changes in the Chinese media and communication practices in the …

Lu Xinyu was my most obvious choice as a Chinese scholar I would like to have a dialogue
with ever since the founding of Global Media and Communication, when a decision was …

Abstract “After Bicycles, What?” was the fundamental developmental question posed to the
Chinese by the Canadian communication scholar Dallas Smythe at the dawn of the reform …

The Chinese media are becoming more autonomous and more diverse in political content.
Long under the thumb of the ruling Communist Party and used almost entirely as a …

It is widely recogni ed that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses the media to set the
agenda for political discourse, propagate official policies, monitor public opinion, and rally …