By Yuezhi Zhao
This authoritative research explores China's swiftly evolving polity, economic system, and society during the prism of its verbal exchange process. Yuezhi Zhao deals a multifaceted, interdisciplinary research of conversation in China and its imperative position within the fight for keep an eye on through the country's upward thrust to worldwide energy. The in all its forms-ranging from the inside track media to leisure shops to the Internet-has been a severe battleground between varied social forces during this interval of wrenching switch. the writer explores changes within the constitution and content material of chinese language communique in gentle of the fast evolution of state-society relatives to bare the profoundly contradictory, conflicted, and unsure nature of China's ongoing transformation.
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As part of Deng’s “no debate” decree and perhaps the party leadership’s own increasing cynicism over its “truth,” the party has more or less given up its mission of political indoctrination to simply concentrate on the management of its own publicity,60 realizing that public criticism of oppositional and deviant ideas often has the reverse impact of increasing publicity of these ideas and creating high-profile dissidents and symbols of public opposition. qxd 12/12/07 7:18 AM Page 35 Reconfiguring Party-State Power 35 maintaining China’s international image in an era of increasing economic interdependence has added further pressure for the leadership to minimize the repercussions of heavy-handed censorship.
In an era of media explosion, “passive censorship,” which aims at limiting the impact of oppositional ideas by neglect within a small elite circle, has been adopted as a more practical form of control. ” As part of Deng’s “no debate” decree and perhaps the party leadership’s own increasing cynicism over its “truth,” the party has more or less given up its mission of political indoctrination to simply concentrate on the management of its own publicity,60 realizing that public criticism of oppositional and deviant ideas often has the reverse impact of increasing publicity of these ideas and creating high-profile dissidents and symbols of public opposition.
68 Communication has never simply been an issue of “free” expression. It has always been an integral part of political organization and social mobilization. qxd 12/12/07 7:18 AM Page 37 Reconfiguring Party-State Power 37 ological hegemony and in proactively managing the symbolic environment. Notwithstanding Bruce Gilley’s cynical claims that the current Chinese regime “advocates nothing at all,” with its legitimacy “based wholly on performance,”69 the party came to power through leading an anticapitalistic and anti-imperialistic social revolution, and it launched its reform program on the promise of developing, not abandoning, socialism.