New Book: China’s Media Go Global

6 December 2017

Book

As part of its ‘going out’ strategy, China is using the media to promote its views and vision to the wider world and to counter negative images in the US-dominated international media. China’s Media Go Global, by Daya Kishan Thussu, Hugo de Burgh, and Anbin Shi, the first edited collection on this subject, evaluates how the unprecedented expansion of Chinese media and communications is changing the global media landscape and the role of China within it.

Each chapter examines a different dimension of Chinese media’s globalization, from newspapers, radio, film and television, to social media and journalism. Topics include the rise of Chinese news networks, China Daily as an instrument of China’s public diplomacy and the discussion around the growth of China’s state media in Africa. Other chapters discuss entertainment television, financial media and the advertising market in China.

Together, this collection of essays offers a comprehensive evaluation of complex debates concerning the impact of China on the international media landscape, and makes a distinctive addition to Chinese media studies, as well as to broader global media discourses. Beyond its primary readership among academics and students, China’s Media Go Global is aimed at the growing constituency of general readers, for whom the role of the media in globalization is of wider interest.

Introduction by Daya Kishan Thussu, Hugo de Burgh andShi Anbin

PART I CONCEPTUALISING THE RISE OF CHINA’S MEDIA 1. The globalization of Chinese media: the global context by Daya Kishan Thussu 2. China’s role in remapping global communication by Anbin Shi 3. Domestic context of Chinese media’s globalization by Hugo de Burgh 4. From the outside in: CCTV going global in a new world communication order by Zhengrong Hu, Deqiang Ji and Yukun Gong 5. Soft Power and the strategic context for China’s ‘media going global’ policy by Suzanne Xiao Yang

PART II CHINESE MEDIA ABROAD 6. Tiangao or tianxia – the ambiguities of CCTV’s English-language news for Africa by Vivien Marsh 7. China Daily – Beijing’s global voice? by Falk Hartig 8. The ‘going out’ of China Radio International by Kuo Huang 9. Internationalization of China’s new documentary by Guoqiang Yun and Jing Wu 10. China’s media going global: newspapers and magazines by Miao Mi

PART III DISCOURSES OF SINO-GLOBALIZATION 11. The effectiveness of Chinese Cultural Centres in China’s public diplomacy by Xiaoling Zhang and Zhenzhi Guo 12. Foreign correspondents in China: Partner or liability in China’s public diplomacy by Wanning Sun 13. China in Africa: Refiguring centre-periphery media dynamics by Yu Xiang 14. The rise of China’s financial media: Globalizing economy vs. globalizing economic discourse by Jingwei Piao 15. The three patterns of Chinese International Communication by Qing’an Zhou and Yanni Wu

PART IV MEDIA WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS 16. Advertising in China: Global implications and impacts by Shanshan Lou and Hong Cheng 17. Social media and global conversation by David Feng 18.Transforming entertainment television through transnational formats by Hong Li and Rong Zeng 19. Yunnan media rhetoric on the ‘Gateway’ to Southeast Asia by Jiao Yang and Mei Wu

The book can be purchased now from Routledge.