Virtually every major media, information and telecommunications enterprise in the world is significantly tied to China. This volume provides the most expert, up to date and multidisciplinary analyses on how the contemporary media function in what has rapidly become the world's biggest market.

Table of contents

1 The global and the national of the Chinese media: discourses, market, technology, and ideology

CHIN-CHUAN LEE

2 “Enter the World”: neo-liberal globalization, the dream for a strong nation, and Chinese press discourses on the WTO

YUEZHI ZHAO

3 Capturing the flame: aspirations and representations of Beijing’s 2008 Olympics

JUDY POLUMBAUM

4 Established pluralism: U. S. elite media discourse on China policy

CHIN-CHUAN LEE

5 Chinese media and youth: attitudes toward nationalism and internationalism

STANLEY ROSEN

6 Political drama and news narratives: presidential summits on Chinese and U. S. national television

TSAN-KUO GHANG

7 Globalization and the Chinese media: technologies, content, commerce and the prospects for the public sphere

BARRETT L. MCCORMICK & QING LIU

8 Administrative boundaries and media marketization: a comparative analysis of the newspaper, TV and Internet markets in China

JOSEPH MAN CHAN

9 West Lake wired: shaping Hangzhou’s information age

KATHLEEN HARTFORD

10 How do the Chinese media reduce organizational incongruence? Bureaucratic capitalism in the name of Communism

ZHOU HE

11 Localizing professionalism: discursive practices in China’s media reforms

ZHONGDANG PAN & YE LU

12 The future of Chinese cinema: some lessons from Hong Kong and Taiwan

MICHAEL CURTIN

13 Marketing popular culture in China: Andy Lau as a pan-Chinese icon

ANTHONY FUNG