Chin-Chuan Lee

Tsan-Kuo Chang

Francis L.F. Lee

Mike Z. Yao

Fen Jennifer Lin

Chris Fei Shen

As China is increasingly integrated into the processes of economic, political, social, and cultural globalization, important questions arise about how Chinese people perceive and evaluate such processes. At the same time, international communication scholars have long been interested in how local, national, and transnational media communications shape people’s attitudes and values. Combining these two concerns, this book examines a range of questions pertinent to public opinion toward globalization in urban China: To what degree are the urban residents in China exposed to the influences from the outside world? How many transnational social connections does a typical urban Chinese citizen have? How often do they consume foreign media? To what extent are they aware of the notion of globalization, and what do they think about it? Do they believe that globalization is beneficial to China, to the city where they live, and to them personally? How do people’s social connections and communication activities shape their views toward globalization and the outside world? This book tackles these and other questions systematically by analyzing a four-city comparative survey of urban Chinese residents, demonstrating the complexities of public opinion in China. Media consumption does relate, though by no means straightforwardly, to people’s attitudes and beliefs, and this book provides much needed information and insights about Chinese public opinion on globalization. It also develops fresh conceptual and empirical insights on issues such as public opinion toward US-China relations, Chinese people’s nationalistic sentiments, and approaches to analyze attitudes toward globalization.

Communication, Public Opinion, and Globalization in Urban China

Jinquan Li

This book addresses, as few books in English have, a broad range of topics pertaining to China's expanding media and telecommunications systems. American and Chinese experts in journalism, communication, government, and political science use fieldwork, including participant observations, surveys, and in-depth interviews conducted within media organizations, to provide richly detailed analyses of the issues and of the changing face of media in China.

Communication Patterns and Bureaucratic Control in Cultural China

Power, Money, and Media

Joseph Man Chan

Zhongdang Pan

Uses Hong Kong’s transfer from Britain to China to explore how media coverage is guided by ideological struggle. Focusing on the global media coverage of Hong Kong’s transfer from Britain to China, Global Media Spectacle explores how the world media plan, operate, compete, and produce a historical record during significant global events. The authors interviewed seventy-six print and television reporters from the United States, Britain, the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Canada, and Japan to delve into the revealing world of writing first drafts of history from reporters’ vantage points. Punctuated with witty and incisive examples, the book provides a useful description of contestation and alliance, themes and variations, and convergence and divergence between and within various blocs of nations. Chin-Chuan Lee is Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota and Director of the China Times Center for Media and Social Studies. In the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Joseph Man Chan is Professor and Clement Y. K. So is Associate Professor. Zhongdang Pan is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

News War over Hong Kong

Global Media Spectacle

Chin-Ch/:uan Li

Lee contrasts the 'media imperialism' view with the liberal 'free flow of information' view of the international effects of mass media by making studies of television in Canada, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. '...deserves a central place in any course dealing with international communication or with the societal effects of mass communication.' -- Journalism Quarterly, Vol 58 No 2, Summer 1981 'It is a very impressive piece of work which has the potential of being an outstanding contribution to the literature. There is no question it is first-rate.' -- Muriel G Cantor 'In both conception and conclusions, Lee's book provides reassuring evidence that empirical research really pays.

The Homogenizing of Television Culture

Media Imperialism Reconsidered

Chin-Chuan Lee

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