Media, Market, and Democracy in China is an astonishingly close look at the intertwining nature of the Communist Party and the news media in China, how they aff

This book offers an analytical account of the consensus and contestations of the politics of Chinese media at both institutional and discursive levels. It consi

This authoritative study explores China's rapidly evolving polity, economy, and society through the prism of its communication system. Yuezhi Zhao offers a mult

Stockmann argues that the consequences of introducing market forces to the media depend on the institutional design of the state.

Four decades of reform fostered a democratic mentality in China. Now citizens are waiting for the government to catch up. Jiwei Ci argues that the tensions betw