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Consuming China: approaches to cultural change in contemporary China / Latham, Kevin (ed); Thompson, Sturt (ed); Klein, Jakob (ed) 2006  Book
Latham, Kevin Book
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Publication London, Routledge, 2006.
Description vi, 246p.
Standard Number 0700714022
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Media, the Olympics and the search for the "Real China" / Latham, Kevin   Journal Article
Latham, Kevin Journal Article
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Publication 2009.
Summary/Abstract The Beijing Olympics were about more than just sporting competition. They were about China and its role on the international stage. The Games were explicitly recognized for their role showcasing China's economic, technological, cultural, social and environmental achievements to the rest of the world. The Beijing Games were therefore inevitably going to lead to a process of contestation between competing representations, understandings and identifications of China, and a common motif of this process became the designation of what is or is not the "real China." This article focuses on the notion of the "real China" and the debates and contestations surrounding it in Chinese and foreign media over the months running up to and during the Olympics. It will identify what these debates and contending claims about the "real China" may reveal for a broader understanding of the role of media in the country and our need to rethink our approaches to both.
Key Words Media  China  Economic  Beijing Olympics  Real China 
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Sms, communication, and citizenship in China's information soci / Latham, Kevin   Journal Article
Latham, Kevin Journal Article
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Publication 2007.
Summary/Abstract China has entered a new information age that calls for a reconsideration of some key presuppositions about the relationship between Chinese media, communication, society, and culture. These include stereotypes that dominate representations and understandings of China such as the appealing, though too simple, model of propaganda versus free speech and political repression versus democracy or those anticipating the emergence of a more or less Habermasian "public sphere." Taking the example of mobile phone short messaging services (SMS), this article investigates the transforming relationships between Chinese media, power, political subjectivity, and citizenship. SMS now constitutes an important new set of communication practices in China. It is more widely used than the Internet and by a more diverse section of the population. In early 2005 per person, fifteen times more SMS messages than emails were being sent in China. Putting forward the idea of "orderly" and "disorderly" media it is suggested that while the Party voices its own rhetorics from the past, many people, particularly in the large metropolitan centres, are driving their own alternative visions of the future and forcing the authorities to engage with entirely new kinds of media practices that pose quite different challenges to those of the past.
Key Words Media  communication technology  China 
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