Edited by Nicole Talmacs (University of Malta) and Altman (Yuzhu) Peng (University of Warwick)

Using the analogy of an orchestra, this edited volume looks at the ways in which the Party-state conducts communications in China today.

Rather than treating China’s communications system as purely one of centralised top-down control, this book proffers that it is the combination of the government through its state policies, the propaganda bureau’s campaigns, commercial consumer culture, digital and traditional media platforms, celebrities, entertainers and journalists, educators, community interest groups, and family and friends, who all contribute to the evolution of how ideas are perpetuated, enforced, and legitimised in China. 

Covering themes such as censorship, surveillance, national narratives onscreen and in everyday life, political agency, creative work, news production, and gender politics, this book gives an insight into the complex web of conditions, objectives, and challenges that the Chinese leadership and commercial interests face when orchestrating their visions for the nation’s future. 

https://www.routledge.com/Communications-in-Contemporary-China-Orchestrating-Thinking/Talmacs-Peng/p/book/9781032505749