Chin-Chuan Lee is a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Minnesota. His work has straddled the English and Chinese languages as well both scholarly traditions. The founding president of the Chinese Communication Asssociation, he has been a visiting

'This collection is rigorous in the application of theory to empirical data, avoiding simplistic market explanations of Chinese media and offering a critique of uneven progression toward commercialised media models.' - China Review International

• Chapter 1. The Global and the National of the Chinese Media: Discourses, market, Technology and Ideology Chin-Chuan Lee Chapter 2. Enter the World: Neo-liberal Globalization, teh Dream for a Strong Nation, and Chinese press Discourses on the WTO Yuezhi Zhao Chapter 3. Capturing the Flame: Aspirations and Representations of Beijing's 2008 Olympics Jusy Polumbaum Chapter 4. Established Pluralism: US Elite Media Descourses about China Policy Chin-Chuan Lee Chapter 5. Chinese Youth and Media: Attitudes toward Nationalism and Internationalism Stanley Rosen Chapter 6. Political Drama anmd News Narrarives: Presidential Summits on Chinese and US national Television Tsan-Kuo Chang Chapter 7. Globalization and the Chinese Media: Technologies, Content, Commerce and the Prospeects for the Public Sphere L. Barrett, McCormick adn Qing Liu Chapter 8. Administratiove Boundaries and Media Marketization: A Comparative Analysis of the Newspaper. TV, and Internet Markets in China Joseph Man Chan Chapter 9. West Lake Wired: Shaping Hangzhou's Information Age kathleen Hartford Chapter 10. Do the Chinese Media Reduce Organizational Incongruence? Bureaucratic Capitalism in the Name of Communism Zhou He Chapter 11. Localizing professionalism: Discursive Practices in China's Media Reforms Zhongdang Pan and Ye Lu Chapter 12. The Future of Chinese Cinema: SOme Lessons from Hong Kong and Taiwan Michael Curtin Chapter 13. Marketing Pop Culture in China: Andy Lau as a Pan-Chinese Icon Anthony Fung Authors Index