After the Propaganda State
Subtitle: Media, Politics, and `Thought Work' in Reformed China
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: June 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780804734615
Subjects: Political control & influence; Public Policy - General; Government - Comparative; Contemporary Politics - China; Social change; Current Affairs; Politics / Current Events; History: World; China; Asia - China; Economic Conditions; History / China; Communication; Social aspects; Political; Mass media
Description: "This book argues that a combination of property rights reform, administrative fragmentation, and technological advance has caused the post-Mao Chinese state to lose a significant degree of control over "thought work," the management of propagandistic communications flowing into and through Chinese society."--BOOK JACKET.