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Popular Journalism in Contemporary China

Politics, Market, Culture and Technology

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Authors:
  1. Chengju Huang

    1. School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Investigates the historical trajectory and current situation of popular journalism in post-Mao China
  • Argues that popular journalism in post-Mao China not merely entertains the Chinese masses
  • Argues that popular journalism in post-Mao China forms as an important and integral part of China’s social-cultural fabric

Part of the book series: East Asian Popular Culture (EAPC)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Conceptualizing Popular Journalism

    • Chengju Huang
    Pages 1-39

  3. Mao’s War on ‘Yellow’ Journalism

    • Chengju Huang
    Pages 41-65

  4. Popular Journalism in China’s Early Reform Era

    • Chengju Huang
    Pages 67-88

  5. Popular Journalism Comes to the Center Stage

    • Chengju Huang
    Pages 89-118

  6. The Fall of Tabloids and Party Organs’ Dubious Resurgence

    • Chengju Huang
    Pages 119-150

  7. China’s Popular Journalism in the Digital Media Era

    • Chengju Huang
    Pages 151-175

  8. Conclusion: The Ongoing Business of Making Fun and Trouble

    • Chengju Huang
    Pages 177-181

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 183-191
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About this book

This book, the first of its kind, investigates the historical trajectory and current situation of popular journalism in the People's Republic of China. Taking a popular cultural perspective, the book redefines “popular journalism” as a particular journalistic genre and media form and applies it to conceptualize popular journalism in the Chinese context. In particular, it examines how the dynamic and complex interplay of politics, the market, culture, and communication technology in shifting contexts has shaped the changing landscape of popular journalism in contemporary China. Meanwhile, regardless of how these factors might have changed over time, the fundamental nature of popular journalism as a source of fun and a troublemaker against elite powers in China, as in other places, has remained. The book further argues that the historical development of popular journalism in China forms an important and integral part of the country's social-cultural fabric and ultimately illustrates the mediated ideological and cultural struggle between popular/public and elite/state discourses in the country’s everyday social life in its challenging and discursive transition to modernity.  

 

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Chengju Huang

About the author

Chengju Huang (PhD) is senior lecturer in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Australia. His research interests include Asian/Chinese media studies, international communication, and comparative media systems. Among other publications, his work has appeared in top international journals such as Journal of Communication, Journalism Studies, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, and The International Communication Gazette.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Popular Journalism in Contemporary China

  • Book Subtitle: Politics, Market, Culture and Technology

  • Authors: Chengju Huang

  • Series Title: East Asian Popular Culture

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40530-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40529-7Published: 23 September 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40532-7Due: 24 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40530-3Published: 22 September 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2634-5935

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-5943

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 191

  • Topics: Journalism, Popular Culture , Asian Culture, History of China

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