China's window on the world
Subtitle: TV news, social knowledge, and international spectacles
By: Tsan-Kuo Chang ; with Jian Wang and Yanru Chen.
Contributors: Wang, Jian.; Chen, Yanru.
Series: The Hampton Press communication series.
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cresskill, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Zhong yang dian shi tai (Beijing, China) -- History.; Television broadcasting of news -- China.; Television broadcasting -- China -- History.
Description: "This is the first extensive examination and assessment of Chinese national television news from a long-term point of view. The project covers a 7-year time span, beginning with the deepening of China's economic reforms in 1992 and ending with 1998, when CCTV celebrated its 40th anniversary.

The theoretical framework that guides the book is the sociology of knowledge perspective, the essence of which - social construction of reality - underpins the analysis of CCTV news throughout the study period."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-308) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:-Chapter 1. From National Ideologue to International Player: 1; title: History and Politics of Chinese Television; title: The Beginning of Chinese Television 4; title: Television as a Victim and a Tool of Cultural Revolution 7; title: The Economic Reform and TV Revival 8; title: TV Broadcast Infrastructure 10; title: The World's Largest TV Audience 16; title: From Political Indoctrination to Information 17; title: and Entertainment; title: CCTV's International Vision and Ambition 23; title: -Chapter 2. The State, Market, and TV Regulation in China: 27; title: Decentralization, Depoliticization and Legal; title: Rationality; title: Evolution of the Official Conception of TV in China 31; title: Legislation and Bureaucracy of TV Regulation 37; title: Regulating TV as a Mass Entertainer 41; title: TV Regulation and the Power of New Technology 45; title: Regulating the Prospering TV and Its Multiple Roles 47; title: Regulating TV's Geopolitical Boundaries 48; title: TV Regulations and Professionalism 49; title: -Chapter 3. TV Programming and Foreign Imports: 57; title: From Parochial Unity to Multinational Diversity; title: Making Sense of Chinese Media 58; title: Television as State Manager in China 60; title: Decentralization, Foreign Trade, and TV Program Import 63; title: The Quantitative Change in Chinese Foreign TV Menu 67; title: The Qualitative Shift of Chinese Foreign TV Programs 70; title: The Communist Versus Capitalist Divide on Chinese Television 72; title: Regional Differentiation as a Function of Decentralization 78; title: From Parochial Unity to Multinational Diversity 82; title: on Chinese TV; title: -Chapter 4. Form and Structure of News on CCTV: 87; title: Professionalism Through Technical Rationality; title: Types of News of CCTV 89; title: Length of News on CCTV 93; title: Timeliness of News on CCTV 97; title: Formats of News on CCTV 101; title: Attribution of News on CCTV 107; title: Focus of Visual Image on CCTV News 110; title: Technical Rationality as Professionalism on CCTV News 112; title: -Chapter 5. A Changing World of Domestic News on CCTV: 115; title: Tales of Economic Success, Social Progress and More; title: News, Knowledge, and Everyday Life 119; title: Mass Media and Social Construction of Reality 121; title: Social Structure and the News in China 123; title: Rethinking News in Post-Mao China 125; title: Who Speaks on CCTV News? 128; title: The Hierarchy of Actors on CCTV News 131; title: Story Length for Main Actors on CCTV News 133; title: A World of Economic Success and Social Progress 135; title: on CCTV News; title: Uneven Coverage of Provinces on CCTV 144; title: A Changing World and Shifting Worldview on National 151; title: Television; title: -Chapter 6. CCTV News and the World Out There: Social 155; title: Construction of Foreign Spectacles From a Distance; title: China and the World After the End of Cold War 158; title: The News and Social Construction of Foreign Spectacles 162; title: The World of China's Window on the World 165; title: What Kind of World on CCTV News? 173; title: Foreign Spectacles According to China 181; title: -Chapter 7. Foreign Policy Affairs and CCTV News: World 187; title: Making in a Chinese Close-up; title: Foreign Policy and News Media 191; title: The Small World of Foreign Policy News on CCTV 193; title: The Partial World Map of Foreign Policy News on CCTV 198; title: Foreign News Versus Foreign Policy News on CCTV 205; title: Foreign Policy News as Indication of China's Current 207; title: Practices; title: The Incompatible World Maps From Here and There 211; title: -Chapter 8. United States in the Eyes of Chinese Television: 213; title: A Subtle News Prism with a Preferred Message; title: Changing Images of the United States in China's News 216; title: Media; title: Chinese Television and the United States 220; title: Constructing the United States on Chinese Television 223; title: News; title: The Two Faces of United States on CCTV News 225; title: The United States Versus the World on CCTV News 229; title: United States in a Chinese TV News Close-up 234; title: President Clinton as Seen Through the Eyes of CCTV 242; title: A Subtle View of the United States with a Preferred 253; title: Message; title: -Chapter 9. Looking Through China's Window on the World: 257; title: Conclusion and Discussion; title: The Politics of Chinese Television 259; title: Legal Rationality of Chinese Television 262; title: From Friends to Foes: Foreign TV Programming in China 265; title: Technical Rationality and TV News Professionalism 267; title: China on the Move and the Pictures in the News 269; title: The Small World Through a Partial Window 272; title: World Making as China Sees Fit 275; title: The United States in a Preferred Chinese Reading 278; title: What Kind of Chinese Window on the World 282.