1st Edition
The Political Economy of Press Freedom The Paradox of Taiwan versus China
By Jaw-Nian Huang
Copyright 2020
160 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
160 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
160 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book offers a political economy analysis of the development and degradation of freedom of the press in Taiwan since 1949, exploring how state-business elites and foreign hegemons interacted to shape the evolution of Taiwan’s media. It examines why freedoms increased alongside democratization in the 1990s but deteriorated after the second peaceful turnover of power in 2008 and why... Read more
1. Introduction
2. The Cold War and the Authoritarian Control over the Media, 1949-1988
3. Neoliberalism and the Marketization of the Media, 1988-2008
4. China’s Economic Rise and its Influence on Taiwan’s Media, 2008-2016
5. Conclusion
Biography
Jaw-Nian Huang is Assistant Professor of Development Studies at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. He is also an inaugural Hou Family Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and a research team member for China Impact Studies at the Institute of Sociology at Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
