Introduction
Chapter 1: Reconfiguring Party-State Power: Market Reforms,
Communication, and Control in the Digital Age
Chapter 2: Securing the Commanding Heights: Class, Power, and the
Transformation of the Party-State's Media and Culture Sector
Chapter 3: Dancing with Wolves? Transnational Capital, Nationalism,
and the Terms of Global Reintegration
Chapter 4: Entertaining the Masses: Domestic Private Capital,
Popular Culture, and the Role of Cultural Entrepreneurs
Chapter 5: Crusading for Civil Rights and Legal Justice:
Possibilities and Limits of Media and Internet Mobilization
Chapter 6: Challenging Neoliberalism: The Lang Xianping Storm,
Property Rights, and Economic Justice
Conclusion
Yuezhi Zhao is associate professor and Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University.
An outstanding reference point for what we want to know about
China’s communication system. To be sure, the book is about much
more than communication. In fact, it embraces most of the complex
issues and forces involved in China’s political, economic, and
social modernization. . . . To China scholars and students, I say
put this book on your list of the top 25 books on contemporary
China. It is a superb study based on solid research and strong
analysis.
*Literary Review Of Canada*
Packed with information and insights about the Chinese media
system. . . . An eye-opening account.
*Global Media Journal*
Zhao's nuanced and powerful analysis informs why liberal democracy
will not triumphant and why China will not turn back its clock and
embrace absolute public ownership.
*Journal of Chinese Political Science*
Impeccably researched. . . . A nuanced and generally easy-to-read
book.
*The China Journal*
Particularly insightful, important, and applicable across the
disciplinary perspectives from which scholars study contemporary
China. Communication in China's final chapter provides a kind of
recapitulation of Chinese intellectual fractiousness—and for this
reason alone, the entire book is a must-read for scholars. For
teaching advanced undergraduates and graduate students, however,
the case study chapters could serve as engrossing readings for
contemporary China classes or international and comparative mass
communication courses.
*Journal of Asian Studies*
A case could easily be made that Yuezhi Zhao's Communication in
China: Political Economy, Power, and Conflict is the best book to
appear on media, telecommunication, and the Internet in China since
the mid-1990s, when Zhao began her career as a scholar and her
rapid ascent to the top ranks of specialists on China's
communication system. . . . Zhao's vignette filled, beautifully
written prose combines with the information richness of
Communication in China to make the book a genuine page-turner:
enjoyable to read and highly satisfying intellectually. Not only
communication scholars, but political scientists, sociologists,
anthropologists—everyone, in fact, working on contemporary
China—will want to read this book.
*Pacific Affairs*
For all students of Chinese media and communication . . . Zhao’s
latest book is compulsory reading. . . . [It] further consolidates
her standing as the brightest shining light and indisputably the
most authoritative political economist in the field—a scholar whose
influence and impact nevertheless extends far beyond the field of
political economy. . . . Jam packed with a breathlessly engaging
narrative and often poignant facts, figures and statistics . . .
the book is an intellectual tour de force, unrivaled in its firm
and comprehensive grasp of empirical materials and intellectual
rigor.
*International Journal of Communication*
With commanding skill, Yuezhi Zhao reveals the conflicted role of
communications in an epochal contemporary change: China's
reintegration into global capitalism. Historically grounded and
analytically powerful, this work is also vividly nuanced. It is
instantly indispensable.
*Dan Schiller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign*
The excellent scholarship provides a badly needed update to the
state of Chinese media. Zhao has both breadth and depth as a
scholar, providing timely case studies and a wealth of up-to-date
information. She makes extensive use of Chinese language sources
that are not widely known even by experts in the field.
*Barrett L. McCormick, Marquette University*
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