The control of the media in the People's Republic of China [Elektronische Ressource] / Nicolai Volland

THE CONTROL OF THE MEDIA IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA INAUGURALDISSERTATION ZUR ERLANGUNG DES DOKTORGRADES VORGELEGT DER PHILOSOPHISCHEN FAKULTÄT DER UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG HAUPTREFERENT: PROF. DR. RUDOLF G. WAGNER ZWEITGUTACHTERIN: PD DR. BARBARA MITTLER NICOLAI VOLLAND DEZEMBER 2003 ii THE CONTROL OF THE MEDIA IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA iii iv CONTENTS List of Charts, Tables, and Illustrations vii Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 1 A Functional Approach to the Chinese Media 13 2 The Yan’an Laboratory: The Formation of the CCP’s Media Concept73 3 Selection, Imagination, Transnational Flows: The Media Concept and the Legacy of Traditional Political Culture 131 4 The Mechanics of Media Control 189 5 Books for New China: Xinhua shudian and the Transformation of Chinese Book Publishing 243 6 The Paper, the Party, and the People: Wenhuibao, Spring 1957 293 7 Bombard the Headquarters: The Red Guard Press of the Cultural Revolution 395 8 No Taboos for Reading: Dushu and the Thought Liberation Movement 441 9 Great Walls of Soap: Chinese Television in the Era of Marketization 493 10 China.com: Media Control and the Internet 531 Conclusion 573 Works Cited 583 v vi CHARTS Chart 1.1 CCP CC Working Bodies, 1937-1945 44 Chart 1.