1st Edition

Political Communication in China Convergence or Divergence Between the Media and Political System?

Edited By Wenfang Tang, Shanto Iyengar Copyright 2012
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

145 Pages
by Routledge

It is widely recognised that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses the media to set the agenda for political discourse, propagate official policies, monitor public opinion, and rally regime support. State agencies in China control the full spectrum of media programming, either through ownership or the power to regulate. Political Communication in China examines the two factors which have... Read more

1. The Emerging Media System in China: Implications for Regime Change Wenfang Tang and Shanto Iyengar

2. Race to the Bottom: Media Marketization and Increasing Negativity Toward the United States in China Daniela Stockmann

3. The Political Consequences of the Rise of the Internet: Political Beliefs and Practices of Chinese Netizens Ya-Wen Lei

4. Political Communications in Democratic Taiwan: The Relationship Between Politicians and Journalists Gary Rawnsley and Qian Gong

5. Predicting Political Discussion in a Censored Virtual Environment Yi Mou, David Atkin and Hanlong Fu

6. Bifurcated Images of the U.S. in Urban China and the Impact of Media Environment Tianjian Shi, Jie Lu and John Aldrich

7. From the World’s Largest Propaganda Machine to a Multipurposed Global News Agency: Factors in and Implications of Xinhua’s Transformation Since 1978 Junhao Hong

Biography

Wenfang Tang is Stanley Hua Hsia Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa, USA.

Shanto Iyengar is Harry and Norman Chandler Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, USA.

'The usefulness of this volume is that it provides a good deal of empirical evidence on a topic that many have speculated on without sufficient evidence. The research...provides a relatively updated discussion of a critical issue in political communication.' Emile McAnany, Communication Research Trends