Staging China The Politics of Mass Spectacle
The People's Republic of China began the 21st century with a new-and-improved public relations approach that was meant to counter anxieties about China's role in the world while simultaneously showcasing the leadership's policies to a domestic audience. Crucial to this communication s...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam
Leiden University Press
2019
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The People's Republic of China began the 21st century with a new-and-improved public relations approach that was meant to counter anxieties about China's role in the world while simultaneously showcasing the leadership's policies to a domestic audience. Crucial to this communication strategy have been networked spectacles: elaborate mass event, designed to reconfigure organisations, ideas, and the relations between people. In Staging China, Florian Schneider analyses large-scale projects like the Beijing Olympics and Shanghai Expo to show how such spectacles became part of the ruling party's governance toolkit under Hu Jintao's leadership, and how their legacy informs politics and political communication in China to this day. |
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| Item Description: | "Amsterdam University Press" Table of Contents Acknowledgements Note on Conventions List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction: Making Sense of China's Spectacles 2 Arriving on the World Stage 3 The Governance of China's Networked Spectacles 4 Staging China's Revival 5 Designing Chinese Nationalism 6 The Making of a Harmonious Utopia 7 Contested Nation Branding 8 Fractured Discourses, Idiosyncratic Interactions 9 Conclusion: The Legacy of China's Mass Media Events List of References Glossary Index |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (330 pages) illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9400603460 9789400603462 |