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China's window on the world : TV news, social knowledge, and international spectacles
- Title
- China's window on the world : TV news, social knowledge, and international spectacles / Tsan-Kuo Chang ; with Jian Wang and Yanru Chen.
- Author
- Chang, Tsan-Kuo.
- Publication
- Cresskill, NJ : Hampton Press, ©2002.
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- Description
- xxv, 323 pages : map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This book offers readers a detailed account of the domestic and international entertainment and news programming broadcast (and not broadcast) to Chinese audiences since Chinese television's inception in 1958. It also thoroughly explains how a wide variety of often contradictory, colliding forces (e.g., historical, ideological, legal, political, economic, cultural, social) have helped create a one-of-a-kind Communist national news television service with "Chinese characteristics." This benchmark text represents the first exhaustive, long-term investigation of Chinese national television news. China Central Television's (CCTV) primetime national news channel, called Network News, is examined in five chapters, with data analysis, both qualitative and quantitative, of CCTV's news coverage from 1992 to 1998, a seven-year timespan that began with intense Chinese economic reforms and ended with CCTV's fortieth anniversary. This volume's important contribution to the understanding of how Chinese television presents China and the world to its citizens makes it a must-read text for all China scholars. It is also an ideal text for scholars from any discipline interested in learning more about modern China or how a country's social construction of reality shapes its news coverage in fundamental ways.
- Series Statement
- The Hampton Press communication series. Mass communications and journalism
- Uniform Title
- Hampton Press communication series. Mass communications and journalism.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-308) and indexes.
- Contents
- From national ideologue to international player : history and politics of Chinese television -- The state, market, and TV regulation in China : decentralization, depoliticization and legal rationality -- TV programming and foreign imports : from parochial unity to multinational diversity -- Form and structure of news on CCTV : professionalism through technical rationality -- A changing world of domestic news on CCTV : tales of economic success, social progress and more -- CCTV news and the world out there : social construction of foreign spectacles from a distance -- Foreign policy affairs and CCTV news : world making in a Chinese close-up -- United States in the eyes of Chinese television : a subtle news prism with a preferred message -- Looking through China's window on the world : conclusion and discussion.
- ISBN
- 1572734191
- 9781572734197
- 1572734205
- 9781572734203
- LCCN
- 2002024147
- OCLC
- ocm49649599
- 49649599
- SCSB-1264133
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library