Media and Cultural Transformation in China 1st Edition by Haiqing Yu 0415673712 9780415673716

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ISBN 10: 0415673712

ISBN 13: 9780415673716

Author: Haiqing Yu

This book examines the role played by the media in China’s cultural transformation in the early years of the 21st century. In contrast to the traditional view that sees the Chinese media as nothing more than a tool of communist propaganda, it demonstrates that the media is integral to China’s changing culture in the age of globalization, whilst also being part and parcel of the State and its project of re-imagining national identity that is essential to the post-socialist reform agenda. It describes how the Party-state can effectively use media events to pull social, cultural and political resources and forces together in the name of national rejuvenation. However, it also illustrates how non-state actors can also use reporting of media events to dispute official narratives and advance their own interests and perspectives. It discusses the implications of this interplay between state and non-state actors in the Chinese media for conceptions of identity, citizenship and ethics, identifying the areas of mutual accommodation and appropriation, as well as those of conflict and contestation. It explores these themes with detailed analysis of four important ‘media spectacles’: the media events surrounding the new millennium celebrations; the news reporting of SARS; the media stories about AIDS and SARS; and the media campaign war between the Chinese state and the Falun Gong movement.

Media and Cultural Transformation in China 1st Table of contents:

1 Chinese media and modernity

From dichotomies to interplay

From party politics to identity politics

Counter-narratives of modernity in China

2 Media event: the new millennium celebration

The making of a media event

The politics of counting down

Chinese millennialism in the making

Rejuvenation millennialism and Chinese post-socialism

Conclusion

3 Media stories: the politics of AIDS and SARS

The making of media stories

Talking

Linking

Clicking

Conclusion

4 News event: SARS reportage

The making of a news event

The many faces of Chinese journalists

Investigative journalism revisited

Double-time narration of SARS

Conclusion

5 Media citizenship

Defining media citizenship

The paradoxes of media citizenship

Conclusion

6 Media campaigns: the war over Falun Gong

The making of a media campaign war

The representational politics of Falun Gong

From representational politics to body politics

Conclusion

7 Media spectacles and cultural transformation

From body politics to ethics

From minoritised community to mediation community

From millennialism to post-utopianism

Towards a post-political critique of Chinese media culture: in lieu of conclusion

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