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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This paper explores the reasons behind the relative success of the CCP's direct control over the news media in the early 1950s. Despite its importance in understanding the rise of depotism during the Mao era, the nationalization of the newspapers has not been fully studied. Building upon the recent studies emphasizing the adaptive nature of the CCP, this study analyzes the ownership transformation of the Shanghai newspapers from the 1930s to the early 1950s by going beyond the 1949 divide. I argue that the CCP's relative success in.
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