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oapen-20.500.12657-224932020-12-17T16:13:32Z Staging China Schneider, Florian Media and Communications political communication Cultural Governance mass media events Contemporary China In this volume Florian Schneider shows how mass media events fit into the political, economic, and cultural developments in China. Through expert interviews and empirical studies of production backgrounds and media contents, Schneider explores the communication strategies that informed the Beijing Olympics, the Shanghai Expo, and the 60th Anniversary of the PRC. The book discusses what the implications but also the limits of these strategies might be, and it shows to what degree different actors take advantage of China’s mass media events to shape political discourse. Through an in-depth engagement with theories of mass-communication and cultural governance, "Staging China" explores this vital dimension of political communication in contemporary China, providing a novel take on networked politics and legitimation. 2020-03-13 03:00:34 2020-04-01T06:51:40Z 2020-04-01T06:51:40Z 2019-10-01 book 1007661 9789400603462 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22493 eng application/pdf n/a 1007661.pdf Leiden University Press 10.24415/9789087283247 103893 10.24415/9789087283247 276c53fd-5f1d-4065-9fce-9628863ddca8 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9789400603462 Leiden 103893 KU Select 2019: HSS Frontlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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In this volume Florian Schneider shows how mass media events fit into the political, economic, and cultural developments in China. Through expert interviews and empirical studies of production backgrounds and media contents, Schneider explores the communication strategies that informed the Beijing Olympics, the Shanghai Expo, and the 60th Anniversary of the PRC. The book discusses what the implications but also the limits of these strategies might be, and it shows to what degree different actors take advantage of China’s mass media events to shape political discourse. Through an in-depth engagement with theories of mass-communication and cultural governance, "Staging China" explores this vital dimension of political communication in contemporary China, providing a novel take on networked politics and legitimation.
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