Gary D Rawnsley
Biographic Data
| ID | 750399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary D Rawnsley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary D |
| FAMILY NAME | Rawnsley |
| SIGNATURE | RAWNSLEY G D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-3589-091X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Chance of a Lifetime (1950): Class, Collaboration, and the Shifting Landscape of British Cinema
Soft Power in the Digital Space
This chapter interrogates the conceptual and practical value of ‘soft power’ as a means of understanding politics and international relations in the digital space. It argues that digital technologies both reflect and communicate soft power capacity and have provided political actors, especially within civil society, tools to communicate and collaborate, mobilize, and protest. However, the chapter also reviews how states have transferred their pow…
The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power
Cultural Diplomacy Today: A ‘Culture of Dialogue’ or a ‘Dialogue of Cultures’?
Research Handbook on Political Propaganda
This timely Research Handbook draws on a wide range of international case studies to assess the transformative impact of modern communication landscapes on political propaganda. From Brexit to Donald Trump, from presidential elections in Mexico to political rallies in India, from ‘fake news’ to Cambridge Analytica, contributors demonstrate the ways in which growing digital platforms have amplified the reach and influence of political propaganda
Research Handbook on Political Propaganda
Introduction: Taiwan, Public Diplomacy, and the World Health Assembly
This is an introduction by the guest editor to the topical section on ‘Taiwan, Public Diplomacy, and the World Health Assembly’ of this issue of the International Journal of Taiwan Studies . The selected four papers, after a double-blind peer review process, were initially presented at a workshop entitled ‘Public Diplomacy and Taiwan's Campaign to Join the wha ’, organised by the Global Communications Research Centre, Department of International …
Data on demand
© Authors. This special issue of Global Media & China critically examines the current fascination with indexing, mapping, ranking and metrics worldwide as they apply to nations, regions, municipalities, publications and even citizens. We now live in age of information abundance. This abundance has in turn generated enthusiasm for increasing scrutiny of data, big and small. Many questions therefore arise: how valid is the measurement? Who benefits…
Critical Security, Democratisation and Television in Taiwan
This title was first published in 2001. By examining the way the ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) dominated Taiwan’s three mainstream television stations before the introduction of political reform in the mid-1980s, the book provides an insightful investigation of how the media can be used as an instrument of both political power and emancipation. This new approach challenges many accepted assumptions about Taiwan’s political development, such as t…
Challenging the snake-oil salesmen: A critique of British approaches to soft power
Soft power is one of the most familiar, yet misunderstood concepts in international relations. It is often used to describe cultural attraction and familiarity with a place in the belief that ‘to know us is to love us’. However, this paper calls for a reappraisal of soft power to focus more on political culture and behaviour – the power of example. Drawing on the experience of the United Kingdom the paper suggests that if the country wishes to co…
The Apu Trilogy
This is a new edition of The Apu Trilogy, the last book by the late film critic, Robin Wood, first published in 1971. This slim volume, the definitive text on Satyajit Ray’s cinematic trilogy follo
Critical Security, Democratisation and Television in Taiwan
Taiwan Cinema: International Reception and Social Change
In 2011, the opening of Wei Te-sheng’s Seediq Bale in the Venice film festival competition revealed a different scenario from that of the late 1980s and 1990s, when festivals brought world attention to new directors and unexplored territories. The Golden Lion awarded to Hou Hsiao-hsien’s City of Sadness (1989) paved the way for establishing the connection between Venice and Chinese-language films. In 1994, the Golden Lion to Tsai Ming-liang’s Viv…
Soft Power Rich, Public Diplomacy Poor: An Assessment of Taiwan's External Communications
Accepting that Taiwan has accumulated “soft power” since the introduction of democratic reforms in the late 1980s, this paper assesses Taiwan's external communications during Ma Ying-jeou's presidency and how its soft power resources have been exercised. Demonstrating the strategic turn from political warfare to public and cultural diplomacy, the paper begins with the premise that the priority must be to increase familiarity with Taiwan among for…
Media freedom and responsibility in South Korea: The perceptions of journalists and politicians during the Roh Moo-hyun presidency
This article analyses the perceptions of media freedom and responsibility by journalists and politicians in South Korea during the Presidency of Roh Moo-huyn (2003–2008). It draws on in-depth interviews with 10 journalists and 10 politicians with different political affiliations and interests. Findings suggest that both groups had positive appraisals of the country’s media democratisation. For them, the media could function as a watchdog on polit…
Introduction to “International Broadcasting and Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century”
International broadcasting remains a key activity in public diplomacy. In this Introduction I discuss how international broadcasting has long been associated with the projection of foreign policy interests, from an instrument of empire building in the 1920s and 1930s, through the Cold War and beyond. In particular, the Introduction evaluates how modern Information Communications Technologies, especially the internet and social media, have transfo…
Cold-War Propaganda in The 1950s
Routledge Handbook of Soft Power
After the Fact: The Holocaust in Twenty-First Century Documentary Film
Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media
Introduction Gary D. Rawnsley & Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley Part 1: The Development of the Study and the Structure of Chinese Media 1. (Re)-Focusing on the Target: Reflections on a Trajectory of Studying the Chinese Media Yuezhi Zhao 2. China, Soft Power and Imperialism Colin Sparks 3. Evaluating Chinese Media Policy: Objectives and Contradictions Rogier Creemers
Hollywood and the Americanization of Britain from the 1920s to the present
Anyone seeking a thoughtful and empirical-based challenge to the idea that Hollywood movies are the vanguard of Cultural Imperialism should read this book. Mark Glancy builds his analysis on the pr
To Know Us is to Love Us: Public Diplomacy and International Broadcasting in Contemporary Russia and China
China and Russia have devoted significant resources to developing their international broadcasting capacity as an instrument of public diplomacy. Focusing on CCTV-N (China) and RT (Russia), this article discusses the strategies each has developed to communicate with international audiences and further the foreign policy ambitions of policy makers in Beijing and Moscow. It highlights the differences between the two stations – namely CCTV-N's ambit…
Radio Free Asia and China’s Harmonious Society
Taiwan's Soft Power and Public Diplomacy
This paper analyses how Taiwan exercises “soft power” and uses public diplomacy to engage with the international community, and to compensate for the absence of formal diplomatic relations with major powers. The research suggests that Taiwan's strategies of international engagement are constrained by its external and internal political environments. The international system (structure) has locked Taiwan into a set of challenging arrangements over…
Indian Media
To Know Us is to Love Us: Public Diplomacy and International Broadcasting in Contemporary Russia and China
China and Russia have devoted significant resources to developing their international broadcasting capacity as an instrument of public diplomacy. Focusing on CCTV-N (China) and RT (Russia), this article discusses the strategies each has developed to communicate with international audiences and further the foreign policy ambitions of policy makers in Beijing and Moscow. It highlights the differences between the two stations – namely CCTV-N's ambit…
Regime transition and the media in Taiwan
Taiwan's recent experience of political regime transition suggests the existence of a strong correlation between the promotion of free and diverse media and the level of political change. The government's efforts to create a more liberal media environment are commendable, but, owing to the structure of the market and ownership patterns, the party of government (the Kuomintang) maintains a powerful influence over television and major newspapers. T…
Treading a Fine Line: Democratisation and the Media in Taiwan
This article surveys the development of Taiwan's media from authoritarian to democratic government. In particular, it addresses the reforms to the media since the election of President Chen Shui-bian in 2000, but questions whether these reforms have gone far enough. Problems of media ownership and the absence of clear definitions of classified information remain, while the development of tabloid-style journalism, image-based election propaganda a…
An institutional approach to election campaigning in Taiwan
This article analyses trends in election campaigning in Taiwan with particular reference to the landmark 2000 presidential election, when the Kuomintang's 50-year monopoly on power finally ended. It examines the growing professionalism in election campaigning that stands alongside, and is shaped by, the systemic and institutional features of Taiwan's electoral landscape, such as the path dependency of the parties and the electoral system used. Th…
Soft Power Rich, Public Diplomacy Poor: An Assessment of Taiwan's External Communications
Accepting that Taiwan has accumulated “soft power” since the introduction of democratic reforms in the late 1980s, this paper assesses Taiwan's external communications during Ma Ying-jeou's presidency and how its soft power resources have been exercised. Demonstrating the strategic turn from political warfare to public and cultural diplomacy, the paper begins with the premise that the priority must be to increase familiarity with Taiwan among for…
Political Communications in Democratic Taiwan: The Relationship Between Politicians and Journalists
This article assesses the present state of political communications in Taiwan through a close analysis of the perceived relationship between journalists and politicians. This relationship is examined within the context of media commercialization. Based on the assumption that in cultures of democratic political communication the interaction between media and political actors involves both conflict and cooperation, we consider how journalists and p…
The 1996 Presidential Campaign in Taiwan: Packaging Politics in a Democratizing State
This article explores how China's military exercises influenced the campaigns of the candidates in Taiwan's first presidential election in March 1996. It draws on our understanding of election campaigning in the West to demonstrate how candidates responded to (1) the advantages of incumbency; (2) the requirements of the modern mass media; (3) negative campaigning; and (4) the importance of finance and professionalism. It challenges the assumption…
Taiwan's Soft Power and Public Diplomacy
This paper analyses how Taiwan exercises “soft power” and uses public diplomacy to engage with the international community, and to compensate for the absence of formal diplomatic relations with major powers. The research suggests that Taiwan's strategies of international engagement are constrained by its external and internal political environments. The international system (structure) has locked Taiwan into a set of challenging arrangements over…
Old wine in new bottles: China-Taiwan computer-based 'information warfare' and propaganda
This article considers the operational utility of computer-based information warfare across the Taiwan Strait. It reviews the capacity of both the People's Republic of China and Taiwan to wage offensive and defensive information warfare, and acknowledges that both sides have invested and continue to invest considerable amounts of resources into developing their information warfare ability, both have taken part in the Revolution in Military Affair…
The Great Movement to Resist America and Assist Korea: How Beijing sold the Korean War
The Chinese entered the Korean War one year after the creation of the People’s Republic of China. Given the considerable economic, social and political problems facing the new state after decades of foreign occupation and civil war, how did the new Communist Government of China persuade both the people and the military to intervene in a foreign war? Described as the ‘Great Movement to Resist America and Assist Korea’ and an opportunity to ‘Beat A…
The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65
The Media and Popular Protest in Pre-democratic Taiwan
2000). The Media and Popular Protest in Pre-democratic Taiwan. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 565-580
Overt and covert: The voice of Britain and black radio broadcasting in the Suez crisis, 1956
Rawnsley, G. (1996). Overt and Covert: The Voice of Britain and black broadcasting in the Suez crisis. Intelligence and National Security, 11(3), 497-522
Introduction: Taiwan, Public Diplomacy, and the World Health Assembly
This is an introduction by the guest editor to the topical section on ‘Taiwan, Public Diplomacy, and the World Health Assembly’ of this issue of the International Journal of Taiwan Studies . The selected four papers, after a double-blind peer review process, were initially presented at a workshop entitled ‘Public Diplomacy and Taiwan's Campaign to Join the wha ’, organised by the Global Communications Research Centre, Department of International …
Media freedom and responsibility in South Korea: The perceptions of journalists and politicians during the Roh Moo-hyun presidency
This article analyses the perceptions of media freedom and responsibility by journalists and politicians in South Korea during the Presidency of Roh Moo-huyn (2003–2008). It draws on in-depth interviews with 10 journalists and 10 politicians with different political affiliations and interests. Findings suggest that both groups had positive appraisals of the country’s media democratisation. For them, the media could function as a watchdog on polit…
Public Television and Empowerment in Taiwan
This paper analyses the development of public television in Taiwan. It argues that media liberalisation and political democratisation were, on their own, insufficient conditions to encourage the growth of media with links to civil society. Democratisation in Taiwan was essentially an elite-driven process (elites in power and in opposition); in turn, Taiwan's elites - political and intellectual - were the agents behind the development of Public Se…
Overt and covert: The voice of Britain and black radio broadcasting in the Suez crisis, 1956
Rawnsley, G. (1996). Overt and Covert: The Voice of Britain and black broadcasting in the Suez crisis. Intelligence and National Security, 11(3), 497-522
Cold War Radio in crisis: The BBC overseas services, the Suez crisis and the 1956 Hungarian uprising
(1996). Cold War Radio in crisis: the BBC overseas services, the Suez crisis and the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 197-219
The 1996 Presidential Campaign in Taiwan: Packaging Politics in a Democratizing State
This article explores how China's military exercises influenced the campaigns of the candidates in Taiwan's first presidential election in March 1996. It draws on our understanding of election campaigning in the West to demonstrate how candidates responded to (1) the advantages of incumbency; (2) the requirements of the modern mass media; (3) negative campaigning; and (4) the importance of finance and professionalism. It challenges the assumption…
Radio Wars: Truth, Propaganda and the Struggle for Radio Australia
Regime transition and the media in Taiwan
Taiwan's recent experience of political regime transition suggests the existence of a strong correlation between the promotion of free and diverse media and the level of political change. The government's efforts to create a more liberal media environment are commendable, but, owing to the structure of the market and ownership patterns, the party of government (the Kuomintang) maintains a powerful influence over television and major newspapers. T…
Taiwan’s Informal Diplomacy and Propaganda
How do governments that do not enjoy formal diplomatic relations use propaganda? When a government is denied recognition by the international community, it must explore every avenue of publicity avail
The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65
The Media and Popular Protest in Pre-democratic Taiwan
2000). The Media and Popular Protest in Pre-democratic Taiwan. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 565-580
The Clandestine War in Asia, 1945-65: Western Intelligence, Propaganda, and Special Operations
Political Communications in Greater China: The Construction and Reflection of Identity
This book examines the role played by political communications, including media of all kinds - journalism, television, and film - in defining and shaping identity in Greater China; China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas Chinese. \n \nIn the context of increasing cross-border interactions of people, investment and commercial products between the component parts of greater China, the book explores the idea that identity, rather than nation-states or…
An institutional approach to election campaigning in Taiwan
This article analyses trends in election campaigning in Taiwan with particular reference to the landmark 2000 presidential election, when the Kuomintang's 50-year monopoly on power finally ended. It examines the growing professionalism in election campaigning that stands alongside, and is shaped by, the systemic and institutional features of Taiwan's electoral landscape, such as the path dependency of the parties and the electoral system used. Th…
La démocratie peut-elle acheter la reconnaissance internationale ? [Diplomatie et propagande à Taiwan]: Diplomatie et propagande à Taiwan
D. Rawnsley Gary. La democratie peut-elle acheter la reconnaissance internationale ? [Diplomatie et propagande a Taiwan]. In: Perspectives chinoises, n°76, 2003. pp. 61-69
La réforme du secteur des médias
Treading a Fine Line: Democratisation and the Media in Taiwan
This article surveys the development of Taiwan's media from authoritarian to democratic government. In particular, it addresses the reforms to the media since the election of President Chen Shui-bian in 2000, but questions whether these reforms have gone far enough. Problems of media ownership and the absence of clear definitions of classified information remain, while the development of tabloid-style journalism, image-based election propaganda a…
Old wine in new bottles: China-Taiwan computer-based 'information warfare' and propaganda
This article considers the operational utility of computer-based information warfare across the Taiwan Strait. It reviews the capacity of both the People's Republic of China and Taiwan to wage offensive and defensive information warfare, and acknowledges that both sides have invested and continue to invest considerable amounts of resources into developing their information warfare ability, both have taken part in the Revolution in Military Affair…
Public Television and Empowerment in Taiwan
This paper analyses the development of public television in Taiwan. It argues that media liberalisation and political democratisation were, on their own, insufficient conditions to encourage the growth of media with links to civil society. Democratisation in Taiwan was essentially an elite-driven process (elites in power and in opposition); in turn, Taiwan's elites - political and intellectual - were the agents behind the development of Public Se…
China Talks Back: Public Diplomacy and Soft Power for the Chinese Century
The story of the so-called Chinese miracle is well known: unprecedented growth rates; an “open door” policy that has attracted extraordinary amounts of foreign investment; a determination to reap the economic rewards of globalization; an apparent commitment to a benign and responsible foreign policy; and a greater involvement in international regimes, including the World Trade Organization (WTO) and United Nations peacekeeping operations.1 In sho…
The Great Movement to Resist America and Assist Korea: How Beijing sold the Korean War
The Chinese entered the Korean War one year after the creation of the People’s Republic of China. Given the considerable economic, social and political problems facing the new state after decades of foreign occupation and civil war, how did the new Communist Government of China persuade both the people and the military to intervene in a foreign war? Described as the ‘Great Movement to Resist America and Assist Korea’ and an opportunity to ‘Beat A…
Democratization and election campaigning in Taiwan: Professionalizing the professionals
Global Chinese Cinema: The Culture and Politics of 'Hero'
The film Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou and released in 2002, is widely regarded as the first globally successful indigenous Chinese blockbuster. A big expensive film with multiple stars, spectacular scenery, and astonishing action sequences, it touched on key questions of Chinese culture, nation and politics, and was both a domestic sensation and an international hit. This book explores the reasons for the film's popularity with its audiences, di…
Political Communications in Democratic Taiwan: The Relationship Between Politicians and Journalists
This article assesses the present state of political communications in Taiwan through a close analysis of the perceived relationship between journalists and politicians. This relationship is examined within the context of media commercialization. Based on the assumption that in cultures of democratic political communication the interaction between media and political actors involves both conflict and cooperation, we consider how journalists and p…
Cinema Wars: Hollywood film and politics in the Bush-Cheney era
Approaches to soft power and public diplomacy in China and Taiwan
This paper compares the soft power capital and public diplomacy strategies of Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. The premise is that Taiwan's international status and the absence of formal diplomatic recognition by major powers are a serious constraint on Taiwan's ability engage in meaningful outreach with the global community. The focus of the discussion is a paradox: Taiwan should be more successful at soft power since it is the personi…
Indian Media
Radio Free Asia and China’s Harmonious Society
Political science (35 works) · Law (29 works) · Politics (25 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (18 works) · History (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Media studies (13 works) · China (11 works) · Diplomacy (10 works)