Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China

After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly through the power of language, carefully controlled by the political elites. Discourse, as a way of speaking and doing things, has become an indispensable instrument for the authority to manage a...

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After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly through the power of language, carefully controlled by the political elites. Discourse, as a way of speaking and doing things, has become an indispensable instrument for the authority to manage a fluid, increasingly fragmented, but highly dynamic and yet fragile society. Written by an international team of leading scholars, this volume examines socio-political transformations of contemporary Chinese society through a systematic account, analysis and assessment of its salient discourses and their production, circulation, negotiation, and consequences. In particular, the volume focuses on the interplay of politics and media. The book’s intended readership is academics and students of Chinese studies, language and discourse, and media and communication studies.

Introduction: Legitimisation, resistance and discursive struggles in contemporary China
Qing Cao
1 – 22
Part 1: Political discourse
Chapter 1. Disembodied words: The ritualistic quality of political discourse in the era of Jiang Zemin
Maurizio Marinelli
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Introduction: Legitimisation, resistance and discursive struggles in contemporary China
Qing Cao
1 – 22
Part 1: Political discourse
Chapter 1. Disembodied words: The ritualistic quality of political discourse in the era of Jiang Zemin
Maurizio Marinelli
25 – 46
Chapter 2. ‘Stability overwhelms everything’: Analysing the legitimating effect of the stability discourse since 1989
Peter Sandby-Thomas
47 – 76
Chapter 3. A decade of change in China: A corpus-based discourse analysis of ten government work reports
Yufang Qian and Hailong Tian
77 – 96
Chapter 4. It’s a small world after all?: Simulating the future world order at the Shanghai Expo
Florian Schneider
97 – 120
Part 2: Media discourse
Chapter 5. Discourse of journalism and legitimacy in post-reform China
Jingrong Tong
123 – 144
Chapter 6. China’s Road to Revival: “Writing” the PRC’s struggles for modernization
Florian Schneider and Yih-jye Hwang
145 – 170
Chapter 7. China’s soft power: Formulations, contestations and communication
Qing Cao
171 – 194
Chapter 8. Issues in discourse approach to social transformations in China: A synopsis
Hailong Tian and Paul Chilton
195 – 208
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