TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schneider,Florian
TI  - Staging China: The Politics of Mass Spectacle 
SN  - 9789400603462
PB  - Leiden University Press
KW  - Social Science / Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - In this volume Florian Schneider shows how mass media events fit into the political, economic, and cultural developments in China. Through expert interviews and empirical studies of production backgrounds and media contents, Schneider explores the communication strategies that informed the Beijing Olympics, the Shanghai Expo, and the 60th Anniversary of the PRC. The book discusses what the implications but also the limits of these strategies might be, and it shows to what degree different actors take advantage of China's mass media events to shape political discourse. Through an in-depth engagement with theories of mass-communication and cultural governance, "Staging China" explores this vital dimension of political communication in contemporary China, providing a novel take on networked politics and legitimation
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/b2bad337-ab11-4b43-83e0-f4cb22d5be4b
ER  -