China Ink

The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism

• Author(s): Judy Polumbaum, Lei Xiong,
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Pages: 201
• ISBN_10: 0742556670
  ISBN_13: 9780742556676
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers , History / Asia / China , Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies ,

Description:... "This book explores individual and societal changes in contemporary China through the compelling personal accounts of young Chinese journalists. China's media are central to public life in the most populous nation on earth and have also become increasingly relevant to communication and understanding on a global scale. Through a series of engaging oral histories, the author puts a human face on vital political and philosophical issues of freedom of expression and information that will shape China's future. The author's extended and frank conversations with journalists from a range of news outlets reveal diversity, passion, humor, and optimism that belie the stereotype of journalists as cogs in a rigidly controlled machine. Neither dissidents nor paragons but rather people working day in and day out within China's existing and evolving media, these talented and ambitious reporters open new windows to understanding Chinese journalism and intellectual life." -- BACK COVER.