ISBN10: 0197515762, ISBN13: 9780197515761, [publisher: OUP USA 2023-03-23, New York] Hardcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2023]

ISBN10: 0197515762, ISBN13: 9780197515761, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. A major analysis of how China is attempting to become a media and information superpower around the world, seeking to shape the politics, local media, and information environments of both East Asia and the World.Since China's ascendancy toward major-power status began in the 1990s, many observers have focused on its economic growth and expanding military. China's ability was limited in projecting power over information andmedia and the infrastructure through which information flows. That has begun to change. Beijing's state-backed media, which once seemed incapable having a significant effect globally, has been overhauled and expanded. At atime when many democracies' media outlets are consolidating due to financial pressures, China's biggest state media outlets, like the newswire Xinhua, are modernizing, professionalizing, and expanding in attempt to reach an international audience. Overseas, Beijing also attempts to impact local media, civil society, and politics by having Chinese firms or individuals with close links buy up local media outlets, by signing content-sharing deals with local media, by expanding China's social mediagiants, and by controlling the wireless and wired technology through which information now flows, among other efforts.In Beijing's Global Media Offensive--a major analysis of howChina is ...
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New York OUP USA 2023 Hard cover New in new dust jacket.