Chinese Perspectives in Rhetoric and Communication

D. RAY HEISEY is Professor and Director Emeritus, School of Communication Studies, Kent State University, OH

• Introduction: Chinese Perspectives Coming of Age in the West and Serving as a Balance in Theory and Practice D. Ray HeiseyPart I: Chinese Cultural and Communication ConceptsThe Influence of Classical Chinese Theories on Contemporary Communication Xing Lu. AComparison of Sino-American Thinking Patterns and the Function of Chinese Characters in the DifferenceShijie GuanThe Influence of Confucianism on Chinese Conceptions of Power, Authority, and the Rule of LawRita Mei-Ching NgChinese Perspectives on Communication Shuming LuOfficial Role Models and Unofficial Responses: Problems of Model Emulation in Post-Mao China Mei ZhangTowards the Demythification of US Images in Chinese First Person Books Lu LiuExamining the Impact of Cultural Values and Cultural Assumptions on Motivational Factors in the Chinese Organizational Context: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Xuejian YuChinese Communication Scholarship as an Expansion of the Communication and Culture Paradigm Wenshan JiaPart II: Chinese Political RhetoricSun Yat-Sen's Rhetoric of Cultural Nationalism, Xiaoyu XiaoMao Zedong's Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art Minmin WangA Critical Analysis of Three of Mao's Early Political Essays Wenjie YanPower to Move the Masses in a Mass Movement: An Analysis of Mao's Rhetorical Strategies During China's Cultural Revolution Movement Shaorong HuangBeijing Opera During the Cultural Revolution: The Rhetoric of Ideological Conflicts Guang Lu and Xiaoyu XiaoThe Dengist Rhetoric of Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Jack L. C. QiuA Chinese Perspective on the Relationship between Political Communication