Communications in Contemporary China

<p>Using the analogy of an orchestra the book looks at the ways in which the Party-state conducts communications in China.</p><p>Rather than treating China’s communications system as purely one of centralised top-down control this book proffers that it is the combination of the government through its state policies the propaganda bureau’s campaigns commercial consumer culture digital and traditional media platforms celebrities entertainers and journalists educators community interest groups and family and friends who all contribute to the evolution of how ideas are perpetuated enforced and legitimised in China. </p><p>Covering themes such as censorship surveillance national narratives onscreen and in everyday life political agency creative work news production and gender politics this book gives an insight into the complex web of conditions objectives and challenges that the Chinese leadership and commercial interests face when orchestrating their visions for the nation’s future. As such this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of media and communication studies Chinese politics and Chinese Studies.</p>