Staging China: The Politics of Mass Spectacle

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-8728-324-7
Verlag: LEIDEN UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

The People’s Republic of China began the 21st century with a new-and-improved public relations approach that was meant to counter anxieties about China’s role in the world while simultaneously showcasing the leadership’s policies to a domestic audience. Crucial to this communication strategy have been networked spectacles: elaborate mass event, designed to reconfigure organisations, ideas, and the relations between people. In Staging China, Florian Schneider analyses large-scale projects like the Beijing Olympics and Shanghai Expo to show how such spectacles became part of the ruling party’s governance toolkit under Hu Jintao’s leadership, and how their legacy informs politics and political communication in China to this day.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schneider, Florian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Note on Conventions

List of Abbreviations

1 Introduction: Making Sense of China’s Spectacles

2 Arriving on the World Stage

3 The Governance of China’s Networked Spectacles

4 Staging China’s Revival

5 Designing Chinese Nationalism

6 The Making of a Harmonious Utopia

7 Contested Nation Branding

8 Fractured Discourses, Idiosyncratic Interactions

9 Conclusion: The Legacy of China’s Mass Media Events

List of References

Glossary

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Schneider, Florian
Florian Schneider is Chair Professor of Modern China at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He is managing editor of Asiascape: Digital Asia and author of numerous books and articles on political communication and media in China.

Florian Schneider is Senior University Lecturer in the Politics of Modern China at Leiden University. He is managing editor of the academic journal Asiascape: Digital Asia and author of China’s Digital Nationalism (Oxford University Press 2018) and Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series (Brill 2013)