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Party Hegemony and Entrepreneurial Power in China: Institutional Change in the Film and Music Industries book cover

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Party Hegemony and Entrepreneurial Power in China Institutional Change in the Film and Music Industries

By Elena Meyer-Clement Copyright 2016
284 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Economic liberalisation processes and the rapid development of the private sector are widely visible signs of over thirty years of reform policies in the People’s Republic of China. Nevertheless, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has managed to preserve the basic political institutions of the Leninist Party-state, including its own unrestrained position of political power. Against this... Read more

Introduction Part I Chinese cultural policy

    1. Cultural policy in Republican China

    2. Towards mass culture under Mao Zedong

    3. Beyond propaganda in Reform China

    4. Chinese cultural industries

      5. Part II Economic and administrative institutions of control

    5. Nationalisation and the installation of CCP control

    6. The emergence of private production companies

    7. Towards commercialisation with constrained private participation

    8. Piracy and the emerging copyright regime

      9. Part III The censorship and propaganda systems

    9. Formation of modern political censorship and propaganda

    10. Erosion of political-ideological control in the 1980s and 1990s

    11. Institutional renovation with private producers’ participation

    12. Mass media control

      13. Part IV Private film and music production companies as agents of change

    13. Group formation

    14. Business associations and collective lobbying

    15. Individual coping strategies, individual lobbying and political embeddedness

Conclusion

Biography

Elena Meyer-Clement is a research fellow at the German research network "Governance in China" and teaches Chinese politics and society at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Her research focuses on Chinese cultural politics, the private sector, local governance and urbanisation.

　

"This is an extraordinary, exciting and excellent book (…). It addresses one of the core concerns of developing economies in transition: the relations between regime stability and the institutional changes caused by marketization and commercialization." – Weijing Le, ASIEN 2016

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