Mapping media in China : region, province, locality / edited by Wanning Sun and Jenny Chio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chio, Jenny.

Sun, Wanning, 1963-

Series:

Routledge Contemporary China Series

Routledge contemporary China series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Social aspects--China.

Mass media.

Mass media--Political aspects--China.

Mass media and culture--China.

Mass media and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mapping Media in China is the first book-length study that goes below the 'national' scale to focus on the rich diversity of media in China from local, provincial and regional angles. China's media has played a crucial role in shaping and directing the country's social and cultural changes, and whilst these shifts have often been discussed as a single and coherent phenomenon, this ignores the vast array of local and regional variations within the country's borders. This book explores media as both a reflection of the diversity within China and as an active agent behind these

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; PART I Methodologies and frameworks; Introduction; 1 Localizing Chinese media: A geographic turn in media and communication research; PART II Local politics: Contesting the centre; 2 Provincial papers, national power: The scaling up of the Nanfang Daily Media Group; 3 Dialects and local media: The cases of Kunming and Yunnan TV; 4 Top-down policies versus grassroots resistance: The management of illegal satellite dishes in Chinese villages; PART III Rural cultures: Grassroots practices

5 'Village videos' and the visual mainstream in rural, ethnic Guizhou6 'Family' vs. 'state' in media ritual: Fieldwork in an ethnic minority village in Yunnan province; PART IV Regional formations: Creative responses to globalization; 7 Shanzhaiji and the transformation of the local mediascape in Shenzhen; 8 Contemporary art and mediatization in Brand PRDTM; 9 Sliding scales: The mediated lives of Miao pop singer A You Duo; PART V Rescaling place: Heritage and belonging; 10 Making an empty show of strength: Media and the politics of discernment in provincial place branding projects

11 Living Red: Production, consumption and local memory of revolutionary culture in Linyi12 Heritage struggles and place-makings in Zhejiang Province: Local media, cross-regional media interactions and media strategies from below; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-30430-4

1-283-52080-X

9786613833259

0-203-11755-7

1-136-30431-2

9780203117552

OCLC:

804661528