Bingchun Meng
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3692933 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Bingchun Meng |
| PRENOMES | Bingchun |
| SOBRENOME | Meng |
| ASSINATURA | MENG B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4895-4172 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Connecting minds, advancing ideas, and pioneering dialogues in communication
Whither China
Post-Socialist Imaginaries of the Digital Third Front
This article theorizes the politics and poetics of data infrastructure through an examination of Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD), the state-owned enterprise that landed the deal with Apple to build its first data center in China. I deploy the concept of 'post-socialist imaginaries' to analyze how Guizhou, an economically lagging province, has positioned itself as a strategic hub for big data and cloud computing. The 'politics' refers to the develop…
“This is China’s Sputnik Moment”
This essay unpacks the politics and poetics of artificial intelligence in contemporary China by drawing on textual data from policy documents and news reports, as well as from ethnographic data collected through fieldwork in Shenzhen and Guiyang. Drawing on this empirical study, I argue that on the one hand, there is convergence between the logic of transnational capital and that of the developmentalist state at the discursive level, while on the…
When Anxious Mothers Meet Social Media
In this article I have tried to unpack the anxiety of Chinese middle-class mothers through examining the dialectics of structural changes and discursive shifts. The theoretical premises are that, on the one hand, China’s highly compressed modernisation process has had a major impact on parenting arrangements and parenting ethos; on the other hand, the practice of mothering and the imaginary of motherhood have significant implications for social r…
The Chinese State
This chapter looks at how the Chinese state manages political communication internally and externally in the postsocialist era. After a historicized explication of the ideological spectrum in contemporary China, I draw on Wang Hui’s notion of “depoliticized politics” to look at how the CCP is trying to circumvent some of the fundamental ideological contradictions with a pragmatic and often technocratic approach. With examples from political commu…
Conclusion
In the concluding chapter, I revisit the contemporary relevance of China’s socialist history by comparing speeches made by Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping on culture, ideology and the role of media workers. Counterposing Xi’s talks against their historical counterparts can help to reveal the inconsistency and contradictions in current “ideology work”, as well as the challenges that the CCP faces in re-establishing hegemony. The ideological struggles ex…
The Cultural Politics of the Entertainment Media
This chapter focuses on the cultural politics of entertainment media in China. I try to bring together institutional-level analysis and attention to discourses and meaning in two steps. First, I map out the political economy of both film and television industries, so as to explain the structural conditions that give rise to or suppress certain types of entertainment media content. Second, in the close reading of a few exemplary film and televisio…
Looking beyond the Liberal Lens
This chapter begins with a critique of the orthodox liberal perspective that is often used to examine news media in China. Against the background of news media commercialization, conglomeration and convergence in China, I draw on in-depth interviews with veteran journalists and senior editors to explicate how the political economy of Chinese news industry conditions the daily work experience as well as the professional identity of media workers. …
Introduction
The introductory chapter lays out the key theoretical propositions that inform the rest of the book. It also challenges some of the conventional frameworks for analyzing media and communication in China. In addition to highlighting the continued relevance of China’s socialist history in understanding the present as well as imagining the future, I also advocate a multidimensional view of power, a broader understanding of politics and an appreciati…
From Angry Youth to Anxious Parents
This chapter starts off by synthesizing and critiquing the status quo of research about Chinese internet. I present three case studies on the internet-mediated politics, around the themes of nationalism, gender and class, to challenge the dominant analytical framework. They unsettle a series of entrenched binary thinking, such as state vs. market, state vs. society, censorship vs. freedom, centralized control vs. dispersed network, deliberation v…
The Politics of Chinese Media
This book analyses the politics of Chinese media and considers how the Chinese state manages political communication internally and externally
Patriarchal capitalism with Chinese characteristics
In this article we consider the Double Eleven shopping festival as a major discursive site where the hegemony of what we call patriarchal capitalism with Chinese characteristics is articulated. The state, the market, the corporations and the media, both mainstream and social media, all played an important role in building up a national spending spree that is deeply embedded in the current class and gender structure of China. The phenomenon of Dou…
Political scandal at the end of ideology? The mediatized politics of the Bo Xilai case
In this article, I use the high-profile Bo Xilai case to illustrate the dialectics of media and politics in contemporary China. I start by explaining some of the similarities and key differences between mediatized politics in the West and in China. This leads to an emphasis on the ideological dimension of media logic that is largely missing from discussions derived from a liberal democratic context. I then analyze the dialectics of the mediatized…
The Worlding of St. Petersburg and Shanghai
In this article we propose an alternative model for comparative communication research. We first make the case for comparing cities, especially worlding cities outside what is traditionally called the “West.” We then explicate what we mean by comparing cultures of communication and why this offers an opportunity to reevaluate methodological nationalism and the cultural dynamics of worlding. We go on to use Shanghai and St. Petersburg as two histo…
A Change of Lens
This article makes what Western scholars call a “leap in the dark” by suggesting that, instead of comparing the “West” with the “Rest”, we should compare the “East” with the “East”—in this case the media in China with the media in Russia. We have identified three blind spots in previous comparative media research that have resulted in turning attention away from comparative study of China and Russia. These are: (1) ahistoricism; (2) misunderstand…
Commons/Commodity
The development of digital technology and computer networks has enabled many kinds of online collaboration. This article examines Zimuzu, a Chinese case of online peer production that produces and distributes online Chinese subtitles of foreign media content. Zimuzu provides an opportunity to extend our understanding of how the tensions between the commodity and commons production models are being articulated in an online setting. Using empirical…
From Steamed Bun to Grass Mud Horse
This article examines e gao (online spoofs) as a popular form of political expression which has recently emerged on the Chinese internet. I first introduce a cultural approach to internet-mediated political communication that emphasizes discursive integration and the mutual constitution of communicative activity and subjectivity. I then discuss how these two dimensions are configured in the specific media ecology in China with regard to the emerg…
From Steamed Bun to Grass Mud Horse
This article examines e gao (online spoofs) as a popular form of political expression which has recently emerged on the Chinese internet. I first introduce a cultural approach to internet-mediated political communication that emphasizes discursive integration and the mutual constitution of communicative activity and subjectivity. I then discuss how these two dimensions are configured in the specific media ecology in China with regard to the emerg…
The Politics of Chinese Media
This book analyses the politics of Chinese media and considers how the Chinese state manages political communication internally and externally
A Change of Lens
This article makes what Western scholars call a “leap in the dark” by suggesting that, instead of comparing the “West” with the “Rest”, we should compare the “East” with the “East”—in this case the media in China with the media in Russia. We have identified three blind spots in previous comparative media research that have resulted in turning attention away from comparative study of China and Russia. These are: (1) ahistoricism; (2) misunderstand…
Political scandal at the end of ideology? The mediatized politics of the Bo Xilai case
In this article, I use the high-profile Bo Xilai case to illustrate the dialectics of media and politics in contemporary China. I start by explaining some of the similarities and key differences between mediatized politics in the West and in China. This leads to an emphasis on the ideological dimension of media logic that is largely missing from discussions derived from a liberal democratic context. I then analyze the dialectics of the mediatized…
Whither China
From Steamed Bun to Grass Mud Horse
This article examines e gao (online spoofs) as a popular form of political expression which has recently emerged on the Chinese internet. I first introduce a cultural approach to internet-mediated political communication that emphasizes discursive integration and the mutual constitution of communicative activity and subjectivity. I then discuss how these two dimensions are configured in the specific media ecology in China with regard to the emerg…
Commons/Commodity
The development of digital technology and computer networks has enabled many kinds of online collaboration. This article examines Zimuzu, a Chinese case of online peer production that produces and distributes online Chinese subtitles of foreign media content. Zimuzu provides an opportunity to extend our understanding of how the tensions between the commodity and commons production models are being articulated in an online setting. Using empirical…
The Worlding of St. Petersburg and Shanghai
In this article we propose an alternative model for comparative communication research. We first make the case for comparing cities, especially worlding cities outside what is traditionally called the “West.” We then explicate what we mean by comparing cultures of communication and why this offers an opportunity to reevaluate methodological nationalism and the cultural dynamics of worlding. We go on to use Shanghai and St. Petersburg as two histo…
A Change of Lens
This article makes what Western scholars call a “leap in the dark” by suggesting that, instead of comparing the “West” with the “Rest”, we should compare the “East” with the “East”—in this case the media in China with the media in Russia. We have identified three blind spots in previous comparative media research that have resulted in turning attention away from comparative study of China and Russia. These are: (1) ahistoricism; (2) misunderstand…
Political scandal at the end of ideology? The mediatized politics of the Bo Xilai case
In this article, I use the high-profile Bo Xilai case to illustrate the dialectics of media and politics in contemporary China. I start by explaining some of the similarities and key differences between mediatized politics in the West and in China. This leads to an emphasis on the ideological dimension of media logic that is largely missing from discussions derived from a liberal democratic context. I then analyze the dialectics of the mediatized…
Patriarchal capitalism with Chinese characteristics
In this article we consider the Double Eleven shopping festival as a major discursive site where the hegemony of what we call patriarchal capitalism with Chinese characteristics is articulated. The state, the market, the corporations and the media, both mainstream and social media, all played an important role in building up a national spending spree that is deeply embedded in the current class and gender structure of China. The phenomenon of Dou…
The Chinese State
This chapter looks at how the Chinese state manages political communication internally and externally in the postsocialist era. After a historicized explication of the ideological spectrum in contemporary China, I draw on Wang Hui’s notion of “depoliticized politics” to look at how the CCP is trying to circumvent some of the fundamental ideological contradictions with a pragmatic and often technocratic approach. With examples from political commu…
Conclusion
In the concluding chapter, I revisit the contemporary relevance of China’s socialist history by comparing speeches made by Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping on culture, ideology and the role of media workers. Counterposing Xi’s talks against their historical counterparts can help to reveal the inconsistency and contradictions in current “ideology work”, as well as the challenges that the CCP faces in re-establishing hegemony. The ideological struggles ex…
The Cultural Politics of the Entertainment Media
This chapter focuses on the cultural politics of entertainment media in China. I try to bring together institutional-level analysis and attention to discourses and meaning in two steps. First, I map out the political economy of both film and television industries, so as to explain the structural conditions that give rise to or suppress certain types of entertainment media content. Second, in the close reading of a few exemplary film and televisio…
Looking beyond the Liberal Lens
This chapter begins with a critique of the orthodox liberal perspective that is often used to examine news media in China. Against the background of news media commercialization, conglomeration and convergence in China, I draw on in-depth interviews with veteran journalists and senior editors to explicate how the political economy of Chinese news industry conditions the daily work experience as well as the professional identity of media workers. …
Introduction
The introductory chapter lays out the key theoretical propositions that inform the rest of the book. It also challenges some of the conventional frameworks for analyzing media and communication in China. In addition to highlighting the continued relevance of China’s socialist history in understanding the present as well as imagining the future, I also advocate a multidimensional view of power, a broader understanding of politics and an appreciati…
From Angry Youth to Anxious Parents
This chapter starts off by synthesizing and critiquing the status quo of research about Chinese internet. I present three case studies on the internet-mediated politics, around the themes of nationalism, gender and class, to challenge the dominant analytical framework. They unsettle a series of entrenched binary thinking, such as state vs. market, state vs. society, censorship vs. freedom, centralized control vs. dispersed network, deliberation v…
The Politics of Chinese Media
This book analyses the politics of Chinese media and considers how the Chinese state manages political communication internally and externally
When Anxious Mothers Meet Social Media
In this article I have tried to unpack the anxiety of Chinese middle-class mothers through examining the dialectics of structural changes and discursive shifts. The theoretical premises are that, on the one hand, China’s highly compressed modernisation process has had a major impact on parenting arrangements and parenting ethos; on the other hand, the practice of mothering and the imaginary of motherhood have significant implications for social r…
“This is China’s Sputnik Moment”
This essay unpacks the politics and poetics of artificial intelligence in contemporary China by drawing on textual data from policy documents and news reports, as well as from ethnographic data collected through fieldwork in Shenzhen and Guiyang. Drawing on this empirical study, I argue that on the one hand, there is convergence between the logic of transnational capital and that of the developmentalist state at the discursive level, while on the…
Whither China
Post-Socialist Imaginaries of the Digital Third Front
This article theorizes the politics and poetics of data infrastructure through an examination of Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD), the state-owned enterprise that landed the deal with Apple to build its first data center in China. I deploy the concept of 'post-socialist imaginaries' to analyze how Guizhou, an economically lagging province, has positioned itself as a strategic hub for big data and cloud computing. The 'politics' refers to the develop…
Connecting minds, advancing ideas, and pioneering dialogues in communication
Political science (17 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Law (13 obras) · China (11 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (9 obras) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (8 obras) · Epistemology (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Media studies (6 obras)