China's image in the Western media has long been a contentious issue. Many previous
studies have focused on what images are constructed but few have examined how those …

The agenda of 'internationalizing media studies' has been pursued by scholars of Chinese
media and communication from a variety of angles. A growing body of literature has …

Jacques deLisle (2008) pointed out that the biennial spectacle that is the Olympiad provides
occasion for diverse discourses of humanity, globality, and nationhood to be played out …

• More than a decade after television became the medium of mass consumption in the West,
Raymond Williams published Television: Technology and Cultural Form in 1974. Raymond …

This article provides a historical and critical review of the extensive debate in China over the
government's policy of importing Hollywood blockbusters from 1994 to 2007. The debate …

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, with China's remarkable success in economic
developments and greater openness to the outside world, two sharply opposing views of …

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 …

This article makes what Western scholars call a “leap in the dark” by suggesting that, instead
of comparing the “West” with the “Rest”, we should compare the “East” with the “East”—in …

Since its accession to the WTO in 2001, China's integration into the global political and
economic order has accelerated, which, in turn, has made China's leaders more sensitive …

China is an increasingly important player in global affairs but there is very little research on
how it is presented in the international media. This matters because even in today's …