Media, Market, and Democracy in China: Between the Party Line and the Bottom Line

by Yuezhi Zhao

How do market forces influence the media in China? How does the Party both introduce and try to contain the market's influence? How do commercial imperatives both accommodate and challenge Party control?

Yuezhi Zhao interviewed a wide range of scholars, media administrators, and media professionals to answer these and other questions. Working in China in 1994 and 1995, she monitored media content, carried out extensive documentary research...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252066782
• ISBN13: 9780252066788
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"