Radio listening and the changing formations of the public in China

Bibliographic Data

ID13019607
AuthorsWei Lei (0000-0001-5199-5704, Communication University of China, corresponding author), Wanning Sun (0000-0002-8687-3739, University of Technology Sydney)
Year2017
Volume2
Issue4
Pages320-334
Publication date2017-09-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCommunication and the Public (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2057-0473 • E-ISSN: 2057-0481
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/2057047317727288
OpenAlexW2753326431
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited30

As a sound medium which once enjoyed a dominant status in Mao-era China, radio has undergone tremendous transformation over the past several decades. Throughout the history from socialist era to post-Mao-era China, radio has much to tell about listening as a social practice and about the formation of the public. This article asks how radio listening was defined and managed as a form of public engagement at different historical stages in Chinese Communist Party–led China through the prism of several aspects of radio listening, including radio as a material object, the location and the time of radio listening, and radio genres which dominated the time. We seek to identify the forces that shape the radio landscape, as well as the changing conceptions of listening and the public in China, as the nation transformed itself from a collectivized and communally oriented society to one featuring privatization, individualization, and globalization

Active listening · China · Political science · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Communication · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Music History and Culture · Psychology

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