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Zhao (the political economy of global communication, Simon Fraser U., Canada) examines the interplay between the media, the party-state, and Chinese society in the context of accelerated market reforms and global reintegration. The struggle to democratize the media during the reform era culminated in 1989, he explains, and its violent repression was followed by a rapid commercialization that fused political control and the market imperative in the media. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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This authoritative study explores China's rapidly evolving polity, economy, and society through the prism of its communication system. Yuezhi Zhao offers a multifaceted, interdisciplinary analysis of communication in China and its central role in the struggle for control during the country's rise to global power. The industry in all its forms—ranging from the news media to entertainment outlets to the Internet—has been a critical battleground among different social forces in this period of wrenching change. The author explores alterations in the structure and content of Chinese communication in light of the rapid evolution of state-society relations to reveal the profoundly contradictory, conflicted, and uncertain nature of China's ongoing transformation.
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