This article examines a recent bizarre phenomenon on China's Internet–the enormous
popularity of a scatological Chinese neologism called diaosi, which literally translates as …

The Beijing Olympics were about more than just sporting competition. They were about
China and its role on the international stage. The Games were explicitly recognized for their …

In everyday life, people in China as elsewhere have to confront large-scale incongruities
between different representations of history and state. They do so frequently by way of …

Recent uprisings across the A rab world raise the question of how populations living under
dictatorial regimes moved from apparent quiescence to active revolt. The question is …

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

Abstract China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has encountered much backlash locally and
internationally and had different, conflicting versions of media reality. While China-led mass …

The peasant workers' fortunes in China's littoral regions were a roller-coaster experience
from September 2008 to March 2010. When the repercussions of the global financial crisis …

How are different groups of people such as sex workers, migrant workers, rural cadres and
homosexuals represented in China's media? How accurately do representations created by …

The relationships between anthropology and media studies and anthropology and cultural
studies have fundamental importance for any understanding of the general state of …

Zhang Danhong, a Chinese woman working as an editor at the Deutsche Welle radiostation
in Germany, was suspended from her job in mid-August of 2008 following remarksshe had …