2nd Edition
Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media
The new 2nd edition of this successful Handbook explores the growing and evolving field of Chinese media, offering a window to observe multi-directional flows of information, culture and communications within the contexts of globalization and regionalization.
Bringing together the research of an international and interdisciplinary team providing expert analysis of the media in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau and among other Chinese communities, this new edition:
· Highlights how new social, economic, and political forces have emerged to challenge the production and consumption of media outputs.
· Reveals how the growing prevalence of social media, such as WeChat and TikTok, continues to blur the boundary between online and offline, allowing state institutions to interfere in the lives of their users, and civil societies to mobilise and articulate their interests and grievances.
· Outlines how the development of new communications technologies and their use by political and economic actors, journalists, civil societies, and diaspora communities contributes to the complex multi-directional flow of information, culture, and communications in the twenty-first century.
Contributing to the growing and evolving field of Chinese media studies, this Handbook is an essential and comprehensive reference work for students of all levels and scholars in the fields of Chinese Studies and Media Studies.
Introduction
Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley, Yiben Ma & Gary D. Rawnsley
Part 1: 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
Jonathan Sullivan, Sarah Jeu & Weixiang Wang
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 & 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 2: 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 & Joseph M. Chan
8. Localisation as Negotiation: Practising Solutions Journalism in Hong Kong
Yining Fan & 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 & Jason A. Martin
13. Chinese Nationalism in the Age of Social Media: Competing Actors, Discourses and Interests
Yiben Ma & 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 4: 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 & Boris Pun
21. Wuxia in the Digital Realm: Transmedia Storytelling and Player Immersion in Role-Playing Games
Maggie Xiaoge Li
22. Copyright and China’s Evolving Media Economy: From Marketisation to Platformisation
Lucy Montgomery & 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 5: Chinese Media and the World
25. From Institutional Nationalism to Platform Cosmopolitanism: A Genealogical Review of China’s Global Communication Strategy
Anbin Shi & Liwen Zhang
26. Broadcasting China: Strategies and Trends in the Global Expansion of Chinese Television
Junhao Hong & 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 & Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley
29. Transnational Platform Governance amid Geopolitical Rivalries: The Case of TikTok in Sino-India Relations
Chi Zhang & 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.
Yiben Ma is the 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.
