Understanding social media requires us to engage with the individual and collective
meanings that diverse stakeholders and participants give to platforms. It also requires us to …

Studies on public expression in China tend to focus on how the state and internet users
(netizens) struggle over the limits of online expression. Few have systematically traced …

Faked in China is a critical account of the cultural challenge faced by China following its
accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. It traces the interactions between nation …

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 this concise historical and conceptual analysis of China's evolving position in a world
defined predominantly by global capitalist development, Lin offers a critical review of …

This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just
forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to …

Strikes, protests, and riots by Chinese workers have been rising over the past decade. The
state has addressed a number of grievances, yet has also come down increasingly hard on …

A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the
field of television studies over the past century Explores a diverse range of topics and …

So, you want to work in the media? For a very long time the public perception of a media-
related job could be pegged to depictions in popular culture of the workaday challenges and …

This article investigates the variegated model of capitalism emerging in China through a
comparative analysis of two contrasting local government approaches developed in …