Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media

Introduction

Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley, Yiben Ma and Gary D. Rawnsley

PART I: The Development of the Study of Chinese Media

1 China, Soft Power and Cultural Imperialism

Colin Sparks

2 Cyber Security, Cyber Sovereignty and Cyber Governance: The Party-State’s Approach to Controlling and Harnessing the Internet in China

Sarah Jeu, Weixiang Wang and Jonathan Sullivan

3 The Future of Work: Digital Labour Research in China

Bingqing Xia

4 Using Netnography to Study Chinese Social Media: A Methodological Reflection

Oscar Tianyang Zhou and Ming Zhang

5 #MilkTeaAlliance as Minor Solidarity: How a Taiwan-Centred Perspective Engages and Challenges the Global South Theoretical Framework

Hsin-I Sydney Yueh

PART II: Journalism, Press Freedom and Social Mobilisation

6 Press Freedom in Post–National Security Law Hong Kong

Francis L.F. Lee

7 Media and Social Mobilisation in Hong Kong

Gary Tang, Francis L.F. Lee and Joseph M. Chan

8 Localisation as Negotiation: Practising Solutions Journalism in Hong Kong

Yining Fan and Yunya Song

9 Mechanisms to Deal with Misinformation and Disinformation in Taiwan: Covid-19 and Beyond

Chen-ling Hung

10 Contested and Negotiated Discourses: Media Framing of LGBTQ Issues in Taiwan

Jens Damm

11 The Manufacturing of ‘Correct Collective Memory’ in Chinese Media and the Resistance of Chinese Netizens: From the Covid-19 Outbreak to the Blank White Paper Movement

Xinling Li

PART III: The Internet, Public Sphere and Media Culture

12 Digital Media and Politics in China

Lars Willnat, Shuo Tang and Jason A. Martin

13 Chinese Nationalism in the Age of Social Media: Competing Actors, Discourses and Interests

Yiben Ma and Chi Zhang

14 Online Tucao Subculture in China: A Case Study of Youni Discourse on Weibo

Xiang Huang

15 Popular Feminism with Chinese Characteristics: A Feminist Study of the First Season of Reality TV Show Sisters Who Make Waves

Xiaoxi Zhu

16 Comparing Utopias: Shifts in Cinematic Representations of Chinese Power in ‘New Mainstream’ Films

Giulia D’Aquila

17 Guiding the Public: Documentary Films in China

Qing Cao

18 Museum Collections and Literary Games in Taiwan: The Crazy Gods Show and Literature Lockdown

Li-Hsuan Chang

PART IV: Market, Production and the Media Industries

19 The Evolution of Media in Macao: From the Jesuit Press to the Digital Age

Agnes Iok-Fong Lam

20 Gamers, the State and Online Games

Anthony Y.H. Fung and Boris L.F. Pun

21 Wuxia in the Digital Realm: Transmedia Storytelling and Player Immersion in Role-Playing Games

Xiaoge Li

22 Copyright and China’s Evolving Media Economy: From Marketisation to Platformisation

Lucy Montgomery and Xiang Ren

23 Navigating Copyright in China’s Digital Music Ecosystem: Socially Mediated Discourses and Legal Reforms

Zhen Troy Chen

24 Crafting Visibility: Authenticity, Intimacy and Networked Relations in Chinese Online Celebrity Culture

Celia Lam

PART V: Chinese Media and the World

25 From Institutional Nationalism to Platform Cosmopolitanism: A Genealogical Review of China’s Global Communication Strategy

Anbin Shi and Liwen Zhang

26 Broadcasting China: Strategies and Trends in the Global Expansion of Chinese Television

Junhao Hong and Min Xu

27 The Unresolvable Imbalances of China’s English-Language Media: The Case of CGTN

Vivien Marsh

28 China’s Soft Power and Documentary Co-production: Navigating Public Diplomacy in the Covid and Post-Covid Era

Gary D. Rawnsley and Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley

29 Transnational Platform Governance amid Geopolitical Rivalries: The Case of TikTok in Sino-India Relations

Chi Zhang and Zheyu Shang

Biography

Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley is Research Associate, Centre of Taiwan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK.

Yiben Ma is Convenor of the Preliminary Year Programme for International Communications Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

Gary D. Rawnsley is Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences and Professor of Public Diplomacy at the University of Lincoln, UK.