Chin-Chuan Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3817554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chin-Chuan Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chin-Chuan |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0055-548X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 241 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
China's Media, Media's China
Media events’: First quarter of a century and the next
We argue that the concept ‘media events’ has renewed the relevance of many existing studies, sharpened the significance of other studies, and inspired a stream of research. We then review our work on media events in relation to the grand narratives of national interest and collective memory. To reinvigorate the conceptual viability of ‘media events’, we put forward four questions for consideration in the larger theoretical, technological, and glo…
Collective memories’ of global media events: Anniversary journalism of the Berlin Wall and Tiananmen crackdown in the Anglo-American elite press, 1990–2014
This study applies a most similar systems design to examine ‘anniversary journalism’ of two epic global events in the year 1989 – the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen crackdown – as reported by the elite press in the United States and Britain from 1990 to 2014, through the combined methods of computerized network-based text analysis and critical historical discourse analysis. Findings suggest that the elite press in both countries contin…
Involution and vacuum: Comments on mainstream U.S. media studies
Mainstream U.S. media studies has been marked by an involuntary process toward greater self-absorption and internal development, hence privileging methodologically elaborate study of neatly delineated problems over conceptual or theoretical innovation. Communication research is increasingly divorced from the larger contexts of the humanities and social sciences. It may also risk being criticized for operating in historical and global vacuum. The …
The strategic ritual of irony: Post-Tiananmen China as seen through the ‘Personalized Journalism’ of elite US correspondents
Inspired by Tuchman’s concept of the ‘strategic ritual of objectivity’, we argue that journalists employ what can be called the ‘strategic ritual of irony’ in their accounts to convey moral stance toward morally ‘tainted’ stories, often under the façade of objectivity. Systematic reading of American journalists’ memoirs and writings reveals that their portrayals of post-1989 China, against the tragic background of the Tiananmen crackdown, habitua…
International News and Global Integration: A five-nation reappraisal
This study challenges the ruling orthodoxy that foreign news tends to be reported in divergent ways, reflecting the interests and identity of the home nation. Instead it concludes that the Greek and US elections in 2012 were reported in very similar ways in the leading news media of five countries located in different continents. In the case of the 2012 Chinese election, there were striking affinities in the news reporting of four out of five cou…
Pride and Prejudice: A five-nation comparative study of television news coverage of the Olympics
The Olympic Games are one of the most popular global mega-media events. However, the ways in which the opening of the 2012 Olympic Games in London were reported varied significantly from one country to another. In order to compare how different countries represented this event, we conducted a qualitative discourse analysis of three days of television news coverage from 10 channels in five countries: the United States, China, Japan, Germany, and t…
Remembering Tiananmen and the Berlin Wall: The elite U.S. press’s anniversary journalism, 1990–2009
This article examines how the New York Times and the Washington Post have in the past two decades presented discourses of anniversary journalism to commemorate the Tiananmen Square crackdown and the fall of the Berlin Wall, both of which occurred in 1989 and had global implications. These two events ideologically signified the failure of Communism and the victory of the West. However, they posed different challenges to the U.S.-orchestrated “new …
Globalization and people’s interest in foreign affairs: A comparative survey in Hong Kong and Taipei
Globalization signifies the increasing interconnectedness among different parts of the world. But few studies have examined whether and how the processes of globalization relate to people’s interests in foreign affairs. This study tackles the question at the individual level. It identifies transnational social connections, willingness to move abroad, foreign language abilities, and perceived impact of globalization as four factors representing pe…
Voices From Asia and Beyond: Centre for Communication Research at City University of Hong Kong
The Centre for Communication Research was founded in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Science at the City University of Hong Kong in 2005 (http://com.cityu.edu.hk/ccr/). The funding derived f
Symbolic Use of Decisive Events: Tiananmen as a News Icon in the editorials of the elite U.S. press
The Tiananmen crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in 1989 was a decisive event that has provided an enduring prism for the world media to interpret China. This article examines how two of the most preeminent U.S. newspapers— New York Times and Washington Post —editorially invoked Tiananmen as a “news icon” in the past twenty years. We contend that the meanings of Tiananmen were reconstructed over twenty years partly but not completely in line…
Media Discourse on Globalization in China: A Social-Psychological Analysis
China's economic liberalization reforms and quest for global status have raised concerns over ideological inconsistencies (the adoption of market economy is discrepant from China's avowed belief in socialism) and image problems (the world that China wants to embrace perceives her as a menace). Official media discourse makes frequent reference to globalization and uses it to manage the inconsistencies and to bolster China's global image. These dis…
Semi-Colonialism and Journalistic Sphere of Influence: British–American press competition in early twentieth-century China
British–American press competition occurred in semi-colonial China in the early twentieth century, when the United States, as a rising world power, challenged the British monopoly by advocating an "Open Door Policy." While the British and American presses in China strengthened the cohesion of their respective expatriate communities, we maintain that these newspapers also contributed in a fundamental way to the colonial reconfiguration and power r…
American pragmatism and Chinese modernization: Importing the Missouri model of journalism education to modern China
Journalism education was anAmerican invention, oriented from the beginning toward the training of vocational skills. Older European and elite US universities had rejected journalism education for a perceived lack of a specialized body of expert knowledge. Harvard, for example, turned down an endowment from Joseph Pulitzer for establishing a journalism school; the money was accepted reluctantly by Columbia to launch the now-renowned Journalism Sch…
From gospel to news: Evangelicalism and secularization of the Protestant missionary press in China, 1870s—1900s
By cross-examining a large volume of original sources, we investigate the social context in which the Protestant missionary press in China changed its primary orientation from gospel to news. Furthermore, by focusing on the case of the Globe Magazine , we argue that the missionary press provided an important foundation for the rise of the indigenous Chinese press at the end of the 19th century. Protestant missionaries in China invented certain jo…
The Attitudes of Urban Chinese Towards Globalization: A Survey Study of Media Influence
Since Deng Xiaoping's southern tour in 1992 to reenergize the marketization drive in China, the Chinese government's policy towards has been one of active engagement. His successor Jiang Zemin, and current President Hujintao, with their respective proclamations of Three Represents and Harmonious World,1 have continued the push to embrace global capitalism. Opening the country to global capital is seen by Chinese national leaders as a way to furth…
Party-Market Corporatism, Clientelism, and Media in Shanghai
In seeking to explain why Shanghai, China's economic capital, has a more timid media system than its sibling cities, we examine the political economy of the Shanghai media from the perspective of clientelism in the post-Communist and cultural milieus of what we call “party-market corporatism.” Through field work we analyze four aspects of clientelism, including media conglomeration, elite circulation, resource allocation, and (lack of) media prof…
Chinese Party Publicity Inc.’ conglomerated: The case of the Shenzhen Press Group
The Chinese press, instead of acting purely as a state propaganda instrument, now functions as ‘Party Publicity Inc.’ – that is, a quasi-business that seeks to make huge profits on the one hand and to legitimate the Party mandate by promoting its image on the other. The accelerated pace of media conglomeration following China's accession to the World Trade Organization has sharpened this trend. This study examines the impact of press ecology in S…
Chinese Media, Global Contexts
Virtually every major media, information and telecommunications enterprise in the world is significantly tied to China. This volume provides the most expert, up-to-date and multidisciplinary analyses on how the contemporary media function in what has rapidly become the world's biggest market. As the West, particularly the United States, tries to integrate China into the global market economy, the book examines how globalizing forces clash with Ch…
Global Media Spectacle: News War over Hong Kong
Established Pluralism: US elite media discourse about China policy
In the post-Tiananmen and post-Cold War era, China has not only lost its strategic alliance with the US against the Soviet Union, but has stepped in to be seen as the US's imagined enemy. The New York Times 's discourse about China policy from 1990 to 2000 consisted of three "ideological packages": containment, engagement, and globalization, which represented different strategic variations on the same ideological theme of peaceful evolution. The …
Through the Eyes of U.S. Media: Banging the Democracy Drum in Hong Kong
In the shadow of globalization, international newsmaking remains inherently ethnocentric, nationalistic, and even state-centered. Major U.S. media frame the transfer of Hong Kong from British to Chinese sovereignty in terms of four dominant ideological packages, that is, the United States (a) is a “new guardian” of Hong Kong (b) in an emerging cold war between the West and China, whereas Hong Kong will suffer from the erosion of freedom and democ…
Orchestrating the Family-Nation Chorus: Chinese Media and Nationalism in the Hong Kong Handover
Media discourses on events of global significance tend to be seen through the ideological lenses of nationalism, especially in a country such as China in which Communist ideology has been losing its relevance. In this article we examine how China's party-state mobilized a host of political and market forces to orchestrate media coverage of the handover of Hong Kong as spectacular national festivities in a highly reductive and essentialized way. T…
Power, Money, and Media: Communication Patterns and Bureaucratic Control in Cultural China
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 in journalism, communication, government, and political science use fieldwork, including participant observations, surveys, and in-depth interviews conducted within media organizations, to provide richly detailed analyses of the issues and of the changing face of media in Chi…
China's Journalism: The emancipatory potential of social theory
This article explores the liberating and empowering potential of social theories for China's authoritarian-bureaucratic journalistic practices. By relating them to empirical studies, it analyzes the sociology of knowledge-cognitive interests, social positions and politico-economic contexts-of (a) liberal-pluralism, (b) the reformist Chinese ''Old Left'' of the 1980s and (c) the radical-critical Chinese ''New Left'' of the 1990s. These social theo…
Chinese Media, Global Contexts
Virtually every major media, information and telecommunications enterprise in the world is significantly tied to China. This volume provides the most expert, up-to-date and multidisciplinary analyses on how the contemporary media function in what has rapidly become the world's biggest market. As the West, particularly the United States, tries to integrate China into the global market economy, the book examines how globalizing forces clash with Ch…
Symbolic Use of Decisive Events: Tiananmen as a News Icon in the editorials of the elite U.S. press
The Tiananmen crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in 1989 was a decisive event that has provided an enduring prism for the world media to interpret China. This article examines how two of the most preeminent U.S. newspapers— New York Times and Washington Post —editorially invoked Tiananmen as a “news icon” in the past twenty years. We contend that the meanings of Tiananmen were reconstructed over twenty years partly but not completely in line…
Established Pluralism: US elite media discourse about China policy
In the post-Tiananmen and post-Cold War era, China has not only lost its strategic alliance with the US against the Soviet Union, but has stepped in to be seen as the US's imagined enemy. The New York Times 's discourse about China policy from 1990 to 2000 consisted of three "ideological packages": containment, engagement, and globalization, which represented different strategic variations on the same ideological theme of peaceful evolution. The …
Chinese Party Publicity Inc.’ conglomerated: The case of the Shenzhen Press Group
The Chinese press, instead of acting purely as a state propaganda instrument, now functions as ‘Party Publicity Inc.’ – that is, a quasi-business that seeks to make huge profits on the one hand and to legitimate the Party mandate by promoting its image on the other. The accelerated pace of media conglomeration following China's accession to the World Trade Organization has sharpened this trend. This study examines the impact of press ecology in S…
Remembering Tiananmen and the Berlin Wall: The elite U.S. press’s anniversary journalism, 1990–2009
This article examines how the New York Times and the Washington Post have in the past two decades presented discourses of anniversary journalism to commemorate the Tiananmen Square crackdown and the fall of the Berlin Wall, both of which occurred in 1989 and had global implications. These two events ideologically signified the failure of Communism and the victory of the West. However, they posed different challenges to the U.S.-orchestrated “new …
International News and Global Integration: A five-nation reappraisal
This study challenges the ruling orthodoxy that foreign news tends to be reported in divergent ways, reflecting the interests and identity of the home nation. Instead it concludes that the Greek and US elections in 2012 were reported in very similar ways in the leading news media of five countries located in different continents. In the case of the 2012 Chinese election, there were striking affinities in the news reporting of four out of five cou…
Party-Market Corporatism, Clientelism, and Media in Shanghai
In seeking to explain why Shanghai, China's economic capital, has a more timid media system than its sibling cities, we examine the political economy of the Shanghai media from the perspective of clientelism in the post-Communist and cultural milieus of what we call “party-market corporatism.” Through field work we analyze four aspects of clientelism, including media conglomeration, elite circulation, resource allocation, and (lack of) media prof…
One Event, Three Stories: Media Narratives of the Handover of Hong Kong in Cultural China
This article analyzes how the media from the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong constructed their respective narratives about the handover of Hong Kong - based on their institutional configurations, the relevance of the story to their home constituencies, their conventions of news-making and the cultural repertoire on which they drew to make the event intelligible. Domesticating a global media event reflects and reproduces each soci…
Foreign news and national interest: Comparing U.S. and Japanese coverage of a Chinese student movement
Mass media reflect, and thus reify, social consensus. Foreign policy concerns play a central role in defining media accounts of the political world in international communication. Focusing on media coverage of the Tiananmen movement in China, this case study argues that the vital interests of the United States in China were winning ideological victories in the cold war, whereas Japan's paramount concern was economic gains, hence Japan's reluctanc…
Pride and Prejudice: A five-nation comparative study of television news coverage of the Olympics
The Olympic Games are one of the most popular global mega-media events. However, the ways in which the opening of the 2012 Olympic Games in London were reported varied significantly from one country to another. In order to compare how different countries represented this event, we conducted a qualitative discourse analysis of three days of television news coverage from 10 channels in five countries: the United States, China, Japan, Germany, and t…
Press Self-Censorship and Political Transition in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's handover has induced self-censorship among the press in order to curry favor with and avoid coercive pressure from China. Based on a comprehensive survey, this article shows that many journalists perceive their colleagues as being afraid to criticize China but think of themselves as being more courageous. Journalists from the party press are systematically different from those from the market-oriented press. However, market-driven “in…
Ambiguities and contradiction: Issues in China's changing political communication
The state in China has sought to bureaucratize media management even though control remains tight. Further, economic reform has unleashed a momentum sufficiently robust to loosen part of that control. Media messages in the age of new technology may be averted, compromised, and resisted to a larger extent. Given the crumbling of other Communist regimes and the increasing interaction with Hong Kong and Taiwan, the PRC's media stand at the threshold…
Orchestrating the Family-Nation Chorus: Chinese Media and Nationalism in the Hong Kong Handover
Media discourses on events of global significance tend to be seen through the ideological lenses of nationalism, especially in a country such as China in which Communist ideology has been losing its relevance. In this article we examine how China's party-state mobilized a host of political and market forces to orchestrate media coverage of the handover of Hong Kong as spectacular national festivities in a highly reductive and essentialized way. T…
Media Discourse on Globalization in China: A Social-Psychological Analysis
China's economic liberalization reforms and quest for global status have raised concerns over ideological inconsistencies (the adoption of market economy is discrepant from China's avowed belief in socialism) and image problems (the world that China wants to embrace perceives her as a menace). Official media discourse makes frequent reference to globalization and uses it to manage the inconsistencies and to bolster China's global image. These dis…
Collective memories’ of global media events: Anniversary journalism of the Berlin Wall and Tiananmen crackdown in the Anglo-American elite press, 1990–2014
This study applies a most similar systems design to examine ‘anniversary journalism’ of two epic global events in the year 1989 – the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen crackdown – as reported by the elite press in the United States and Britain from 1990 to 2014, through the combined methods of computerized network-based text analysis and critical historical discourse analysis. Findings suggest that the elite press in both countries contin…
Semi-Colonialism and Journalistic Sphere of Influence: British–American press competition in early twentieth-century China
British–American press competition occurred in semi-colonial China in the early twentieth century, when the United States, as a rising world power, challenged the British monopoly by advocating an "Open Door Policy." While the British and American presses in China strengthened the cohesion of their respective expatriate communities, we maintain that these newspapers also contributed in a fundamental way to the colonial reconfiguration and power r…
Hong Kong's changing media ownership: Uncertainty and dilemma
Media ownership in Hong Kong is being acquired at a frenzied pace by international capitalists who eye on the huge China market, and by pro-China business people eager to ingratiate themselves with the Beijing authorities. The impact of this development on press freedom warrants close attention
From gospel to news: Evangelicalism and secularization of the Protestant missionary press in China, 1870s—1900s
By cross-examining a large volume of original sources, we investigate the social context in which the Protestant missionary press in China changed its primary orientation from gospel to news. Furthermore, by focusing on the case of the Globe Magazine , we argue that the missionary press provided an important foundation for the rise of the indigenous Chinese press at the end of the 19th century. Protestant missionaries in China invented certain jo…
The politics of international communication: Changing the rules of the game
Media events’: First quarter of a century and the next
We argue that the concept ‘media events’ has renewed the relevance of many existing studies, sharpened the significance of other studies, and inspired a stream of research. We then review our work on media events in relation to the grand narratives of national interest and collective memory. To reinvigorate the conceptual viability of ‘media events’, we put forward four questions for consideration in the larger theoretical, technological, and glo…
Globalization and people’s interest in foreign affairs: A comparative survey in Hong Kong and Taipei
Globalization signifies the increasing interconnectedness among different parts of the world. But few studies have examined whether and how the processes of globalization relate to people’s interests in foreign affairs. This study tackles the question at the individual level. It identifies transnational social connections, willingness to move abroad, foreign language abilities, and perceived impact of globalization as four factors representing pe…
American pragmatism and Chinese modernization: Importing the Missouri model of journalism education to modern China
Journalism education was anAmerican invention, oriented from the beginning toward the training of vocational skills. Older European and elite US universities had rejected journalism education for a perceived lack of a specialized body of expert knowledge. Harvard, for example, turned down an endowment from Joseph Pulitzer for establishing a journalism school; the money was accepted reluctantly by Columbia to launch the now-renowned Journalism Sch…
China's Journalism: The emancipatory potential of social theory
This article explores the liberating and empowering potential of social theories for China's authoritarian-bureaucratic journalistic practices. By relating them to empirical studies, it analyzes the sociology of knowledge-cognitive interests, social positions and politico-economic contexts-of (a) liberal-pluralism, (b) the reformist Chinese ''Old Left'' of the 1980s and (c) the radical-critical Chinese ''New Left'' of the 1990s. These social theo…
Partisanship and professionalism: Hong Kong journalists in transition
Media partisanship and professionalism constitute substrata of the same ideological space. We conceptualize media ideology at epistemological ( weltanschauung) and method ological (practical and operative) levels. Based on a survey we found that epistemologically, media ideology exerts a substantial albeit uneven influence on Hong Kong journalists in the way they view the political transition now under way and the media role in it. At the method …
Fighting against the odds: Hong Kong journalists in transition
Hong Kong's media have been in a state of flux, prompted by the colony's prospective reversion to Chinese control in 1997. The media have acquiesced to China as a new power center in editorial and organizational terms. With a sample covering half of the journalist population (N = 522), this study represents the only major survey examining the impact of political transition on working journalists in Hong Kong. The political ideology of the journal…
The United States as Seen Through the People's Daily
Journal Article The United States as Seen through the People's Daily Get access Chin-Chuan Lee Chin-Chuan Lee 1Chin-Chuan Lee will be Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota in late 1981. He is a Lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 31, Issue 4, December 1981, Pages 92–101, https://do…
The politics of international communication: Changing the rules of the game
Fighting against the odds: Hong Kong journalists in transition
Hong Kong's media have been in a state of flux, prompted by the colony's prospective reversion to Chinese control in 1997. The media have acquiesced to China as a new power center in editorial and organizational terms. With a sample covering half of the journalist population (N = 522), this study represents the only major survey examining the impact of political transition on working journalists in Hong Kong. The political ideology of the journal…
Ambiguities and contradiction: Issues in China's changing political communication
The state in China has sought to bureaucratize media management even though control remains tight. Further, economic reform has unleashed a momentum sufficiently robust to loosen part of that control. Media messages in the age of new technology may be averted, compromised, and resisted to a larger extent. Given the crumbling of other Communist regimes and the increasing interaction with Hong Kong and Taiwan, the PRC's media stand at the threshold…
Hong Kong's changing media ownership: Uncertainty and dilemma
Media ownership in Hong Kong is being acquired at a frenzied pace by international capitalists who eye on the huge China market, and by pro-China business people eager to ingratiate themselves with the Beijing authorities. The impact of this development on press freedom warrants close attention
Partisanship and professionalism: Hong Kong journalists in transition
Media partisanship and professionalism constitute substrata of the same ideological space. We conceptualize media ideology at epistemological ( weltanschauung) and method ological (practical and operative) levels. Based on a survey we found that epistemologically, media ideology exerts a substantial albeit uneven influence on Hong Kong journalists in the way they view the political transition now under way and the media role in it. At the method …
Foreign news and national interest: Comparing U.S. and Japanese coverage of a Chinese student movement
Mass media reflect, and thus reify, social consensus. Foreign policy concerns play a central role in defining media accounts of the political world in international communication. Focusing on media coverage of the Tiananmen movement in China, this case study argues that the vital interests of the United States in China were winning ideological victories in the cold war, whereas Japan's paramount concern was economic gains, hence Japan's reluctanc…
China's Media, Media's China
Press Self-Censorship and Political Transition in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's handover has induced self-censorship among the press in order to curry favor with and avoid coercive pressure from China. Based on a comprehensive survey, this article shows that many journalists perceive their colleagues as being afraid to criticize China but think of themselves as being more courageous. Journalists from the party press are systematically different from those from the market-oriented press. However, market-driven “in…
One Event, Three Stories: Media Narratives of the Handover of Hong Kong in Cultural China
This article analyzes how the media from the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong constructed their respective narratives about the handover of Hong Kong - based on their institutional configurations, the relevance of the story to their home constituencies, their conventions of news-making and the cultural repertoire on which they drew to make the event intelligible. Domesticating a global media event reflects and reproduces each soci…
China's Journalism: The emancipatory potential of social theory
This article explores the liberating and empowering potential of social theories for China's authoritarian-bureaucratic journalistic practices. By relating them to empirical studies, it analyzes the sociology of knowledge-cognitive interests, social positions and politico-economic contexts-of (a) liberal-pluralism, (b) the reformist Chinese ''Old Left'' of the 1980s and (c) the radical-critical Chinese ''New Left'' of the 1990s. These social theo…
Through the Eyes of U.S. Media: Banging the Democracy Drum in Hong Kong
In the shadow of globalization, international newsmaking remains inherently ethnocentric, nationalistic, and even state-centered. Major U.S. media frame the transfer of Hong Kong from British to Chinese sovereignty in terms of four dominant ideological packages, that is, the United States (a) is a “new guardian” of Hong Kong (b) in an emerging cold war between the West and China, whereas Hong Kong will suffer from the erosion of freedom and democ…
Orchestrating the Family-Nation Chorus: Chinese Media and Nationalism in the Hong Kong Handover
Media discourses on events of global significance tend to be seen through the ideological lenses of nationalism, especially in a country such as China in which Communist ideology has been losing its relevance. In this article we examine how China's party-state mobilized a host of political and market forces to orchestrate media coverage of the handover of Hong Kong as spectacular national festivities in a highly reductive and essentialized way. T…
Power, Money, and Media: Communication Patterns and Bureaucratic Control in Cultural China
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 in journalism, communication, government, and political science use fieldwork, including participant observations, surveys, and in-depth interviews conducted within media organizations, to provide richly detailed analyses of the issues and of the changing face of media in Chi…
Global Media Spectacle: News War over Hong Kong
Established Pluralism: US elite media discourse about China policy
In the post-Tiananmen and post-Cold War era, China has not only lost its strategic alliance with the US against the Soviet Union, but has stepped in to be seen as the US's imagined enemy. The New York Times 's discourse about China policy from 1990 to 2000 consisted of three "ideological packages": containment, engagement, and globalization, which represented different strategic variations on the same ideological theme of peaceful evolution. The …
Chinese Media, Global Contexts
Virtually every major media, information and telecommunications enterprise in the world is significantly tied to China. This volume provides the most expert, up-to-date and multidisciplinary analyses on how the contemporary media function in what has rapidly become the world's biggest market. As the West, particularly the United States, tries to integrate China into the global market economy, the book examines how globalizing forces clash with Ch…
Chinese Party Publicity Inc.’ conglomerated: The case of the Shenzhen Press Group
The Chinese press, instead of acting purely as a state propaganda instrument, now functions as ‘Party Publicity Inc.’ – that is, a quasi-business that seeks to make huge profits on the one hand and to legitimate the Party mandate by promoting its image on the other. The accelerated pace of media conglomeration following China's accession to the World Trade Organization has sharpened this trend. This study examines the impact of press ecology in S…
Party-Market Corporatism, Clientelism, and Media in Shanghai
In seeking to explain why Shanghai, China's economic capital, has a more timid media system than its sibling cities, we examine the political economy of the Shanghai media from the perspective of clientelism in the post-Communist and cultural milieus of what we call “party-market corporatism.” Through field work we analyze four aspects of clientelism, including media conglomeration, elite circulation, resource allocation, and (lack of) media prof…
American pragmatism and Chinese modernization: Importing the Missouri model of journalism education to modern China
Journalism education was anAmerican invention, oriented from the beginning toward the training of vocational skills. Older European and elite US universities had rejected journalism education for a perceived lack of a specialized body of expert knowledge. Harvard, for example, turned down an endowment from Joseph Pulitzer for establishing a journalism school; the money was accepted reluctantly by Columbia to launch the now-renowned Journalism Sch…
From gospel to news: Evangelicalism and secularization of the Protestant missionary press in China, 1870s—1900s
By cross-examining a large volume of original sources, we investigate the social context in which the Protestant missionary press in China changed its primary orientation from gospel to news. Furthermore, by focusing on the case of the Globe Magazine , we argue that the missionary press provided an important foundation for the rise of the indigenous Chinese press at the end of the 19th century. Protestant missionaries in China invented certain jo…
The Attitudes of Urban Chinese Towards Globalization: A Survey Study of Media Influence
Since Deng Xiaoping's southern tour in 1992 to reenergize the marketization drive in China, the Chinese government's policy towards has been one of active engagement. His successor Jiang Zemin, and current President Hujintao, with their respective proclamations of Three Represents and Harmonious World,1 have continued the push to embrace global capitalism. Opening the country to global capital is seen by Chinese national leaders as a way to furth…
Semi-Colonialism and Journalistic Sphere of Influence: British–American press competition in early twentieth-century China
British–American press competition occurred in semi-colonial China in the early twentieth century, when the United States, as a rising world power, challenged the British monopoly by advocating an "Open Door Policy." While the British and American presses in China strengthened the cohesion of their respective expatriate communities, we maintain that these newspapers also contributed in a fundamental way to the colonial reconfiguration and power r…
Voices From Asia and Beyond: Centre for Communication Research at City University of Hong Kong
The Centre for Communication Research was founded in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Science at the City University of Hong Kong in 2005 (http://com.cityu.edu.hk/ccr/). The funding derived f
Symbolic Use of Decisive Events: Tiananmen as a News Icon in the editorials of the elite U.S. press
The Tiananmen crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in 1989 was a decisive event that has provided an enduring prism for the world media to interpret China. This article examines how two of the most preeminent U.S. newspapers— New York Times and Washington Post —editorially invoked Tiananmen as a “news icon” in the past twenty years. We contend that the meanings of Tiananmen were reconstructed over twenty years partly but not completely in line…
Political science (34 works) · Sociology (28 works) · Law (26 works) · Law (26 works) · Media studies (25 works) · China (21 works) · Politics (21 works) · Media Studies and Communication (20 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (15 works) · Political economy (14 works)