1st Edition

Mapping Media in China Region, Province, Locality

Edited By Wanning Sun, Jenny Chio Copyright 2012
256 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Mapping Media in China is the first book-length study that goes below the ‘national’ scale to focus on the rich diversity of media in China from local, provincial and regional angles. China’s media has played a crucial role in shaping and directing the country’s social and cultural changes, and whilst these shifts have often been discussed as a single and coherent phenomenon, this ignores the... Read more

Part 1: Methodologies and Ffameworks  Localizing Chinese Media: An Introduction
Wanning Sun and Jenny Chio  1. Localizing Chinese Media: A Geographic Turn in Media and Communication Research Wanning Sun  Part 2: Local Politics: Contesting the Centre  2. Provincial Papers, National Power: The Scaling up of the Nanfang Daily Media Group Yuezhi Zhao and Guoxin Xing  3. Dialects and Local Media: The Cases of Kunming and Yunnan TV Zhenzhi Guo  4. Top-Down Policies versus Grassroots Resistance: The Management of Illegal Satellite Dishes in Chinese Villages Wusan Sun, translated by John Alexander  Part 3: Rural Cultures: Grassroots Practices  5. ‘Village Videos’ and the Visual Mainstream in Rural, Ethnic Guizhou Jenny Chio  6. ‘Family’ vs. ‘State’ in Media Ritual: Fieldwork in an Ethnic Minority Village in Yunnan Province Jianbin Guo, translated by Jingjing Chen  Part 4: Regional Formations: Creative Responses to Globalization  7. Shanzhaiji and the Transformation of the Local Mediascape in Shenzhen Cara Wallis and Jack Qiu  8. Contemporary Art and Mediatization in Brand PRD™ Carolyn Cartier  9. Sliding Scales: The Mediated Lives of Miao Pop Singer A You Duo Louisa Schein  Part 5: Rescaling Place: Heritage and Belonging  10. Making an Empty Show of Strength: Media and the Politics of Discernment in Provincial Place Branding Projects Tim Oakes  11. Living Red: Production, Consumption and Local Memory of Revolutionary Culture in Linyi Qian Gong  12. Heritage Struggles and Place-Makings in Zhejiang Province: Local Media, Cross-Regional Media Interactions, and Media Strategies from Below Marina Svensson

Biography

Wanning Sun is Professor of Chinese Media Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. 

Jenny Chio is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the China Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.