Reform and Challenge

An Analysis of China's Journalism Education under Social Transition

Bibliographic Data

ID7513624
AuthorsYu Xu (0000-0003-2942-3739, corresponding author), Yu Xu Yu Xu (Hong Kong Baptist University), Leonard L Chu (Hong Kong Baptist University), Guo Zhongshi Guo Zhongshi (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Year2002
Volume64
Issue1
Pages63-77
Publication date2002-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGazette (Leiden Netherlands (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-5492 • E-ISSN: 1460-3594
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/17480485020640010401
OpenAlexW2156772022
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited4

A survey of 30 of China's journalism and communication schools traces changes and continuity in the country's journalism education in the past three decades during which dramatic economic and sociopolitical reforms were implemented. Guided by the classic theories of the press and their more recent extensions, this study focuses on two major areas of observation and analysis: (1) journalism schools' internal structural adaptation to the changing social environment; and (2) facilitating forces and constraints imposed on journalism education reform stemming from a unique mixture of commercialization under authoritarian political control. The authors found increasingly intimate ties between pedagogical strategies and market demands. However, despite attempts to push the ideological limits towards more liberalized training, journalism schools continue to yield to political pressure for conformity to the orthodox party line

Authoritarianism · China · Commercialization · Conformity · Democracy · Ideology · Journalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics · Law

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