In socialist China, media and communications have always been closely related to social
change. The Maoist project aimed to transform the country and its people in order to create a …

This chapter serves to improve the understanding of the continuities and changes in China's
mass media after the economic reform. China's philosophy of media was derived from the …

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 …

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 …

American writer and journalist Orville Schell first came to China in the spring of 1975 with a
group of American leftist activists. He was given the opportunity to visit the famed Dazhai …

Books on mass communication and social change in China have appeared in a seemingly
cyclical fashion, with three conspicuous waves over the past 4 decades. The first wave came …

The founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) on 1 October 1949 ended a long
period of imperialism, internal strife and war. Under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) …

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 …

China and its media have been caught in the crosscurrents of nationalism and globalism in
the post-Tiananmen and post-Cold War milieux. Having lost its way politically in Tiananmen …