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

• Pubblicazione: New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.230951
• Soggetto topico: Mass media - Social aspects - China; Mass media - Political aspects - China; Mass media and culture - China
• Altri autori: ChioJenny SunWanning <1963->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Mapping media in China
• ISBN: 1-136-30430-4; 1-283-52080-X; 9786613833259; 0-203-11755-7; 1-136-30431-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790480803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Contemporary China Series