1st Edition

Media in China Consumption, Content and Crisis

Edited By Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Yin Hong, Michael Keane Copyright 2002
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Multinational media companies increasingly look to China as a highly important market for the future, but with what degree of confidence should they do so? Media in China is about a new kind of revolution in China - a revolution in which rapidly commercializing media industries confront slow-changing power relations between political, social and economic spheres. This interdisciplinary... Read more
Acknowledgements List of tables List of figures Part I. Background, History and Theory Part II. Cinema and Television: Marketing Strategies, Hybridity and Survival Part III. Politics, Image and the Niche Market Part IV. Media, New Media, and Crisis? Contributors Bibliography Index

Biography

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald is Senior lecturer in Media and communications at the University of Melbourne. Research interests include children and the media in China, film cultures and visual politics in the Asian region. Michael Keane is Research Fellow at the Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre at Queensland (CIRAC) University of Technology. His PhD. dissertation (1999) discussed policy and Chinese domestic television drama development in the 1990s. Research interests are media governance, and television format trade and creative industry developments in East Asia. Yin Hong is Professor in the Department of Communication, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

'A welcome volume in an under-researched field ... interesting and thought-provoking reading.' - The China Quarterly