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9780295741307 : reporting-for-china-nyiri
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Reporting for China

How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World

By Pál Nyíri
University of Washington Press
While Western media are shrinking their foreign correspondent networks, Chinese media, for the first time in history, are rapidly expanding worldwide. The Chinese government is financing most of this growth, hoping to strengthen its influence and improve its public image. But do these reporters willingly serve formulated agendas or do they follow their own interests? And are they changing Chinese citizens' views of the world?

Based on interviews and informal conversations with over seventy current and former correspondents, Reporting for China documents a diverse group of professionals who hold political views from nationalist to liberal, but are constrained in their ability to report on the world by China's media control, audience tastes, and the declining market for traditional media.

About the Author

Pál Nyíri is professor of global history from an anthropological perspective at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He is the author of Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority; coauthor of Seeing Culture Everywhere: From Genocide to Consumer Habits; and coeditor of Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia: How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a Region.

Reviews

"Reporting for China is a fascinating and imaginatively conceived study of Chinese correspondents who work abroad. . . . Readers beleaguered by recent US sparring over fake news and alternative facts will find in this study a refreshingly concrete exploration of the tension, unblinkingly relayed by Nyíri. . . . The book offers, in a very accessible style, a nuanced and vivid account of a domain that has long been subject to overly facile assumptions about what freedom of speech actually entails and how it comes to be curtailed."—Louisa Schein, American Ethnologist

"As the pioneering work in this field, Nyiri's vibrant and important book opens up a lot of new questions about China's global media expansion and soft power attempts. It spearheads an exciting new direction in the analysis of Chinese media and cultural studies."—Maria Repnikova, China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies

"The first extensive, systematic study of Chinese journalists who work as foreign correspondents for Chinese audiences. . . . A must-read for those interested in the machinations of Chinese politics and the Chinese state. . . . A fine example of how anthropologists study the media . . . valuable not just for anthropologists but also for scholars and students in the fields of media, communications, and journalism."—Wanning Sun, The China Journal

"This is an original, nuanced, and informative study that deserves a wide audience."—Pacific Affairs

"Reporting for China: How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World is a fascinating account of the expanding ways the Chinese are engaging with the world. . . . [and] is successful not only in revealing the hidden dynamics and tensions that compel Chinese foreign correspondents to report the way they do, but also in shedding light on the Chinese government's intentions and influence as these pertain to the news media."—Anthropology of Work Review

Endorsements

"I know of no other work that so fully discusses the expansion of Chinese media into reporting on foreign affairs of the world. Nyíri is in an excellent position to take on this intricate topic, with a wide overview of the specific media field in question, as well as of relevant issues of general interest."—Ulf Hannerz, author of Foreign News: Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents

"A fascinating book. The extensive interviews reveal an important aspect of Chinese society. . . . There is no comparable book on the market."—Anne-Marie Brady, author of Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China

"China's mammoth state propaganda machine has long been preoccupied with framing the 'worldview' of its nationals, to reinforce the legitimacy of the Communist Party's rule. But the propaganda process has remained a mystery to most. Nyiri's nuanced anthropological study of Chinese foreign correspondents provides a rare in-depth look into the fuzzy engineering of the Chinese mind and is therefore crucial to a true understanding of a China on the way to become a global superpower."—Chan Koonchung, author of The Fat Years and The Unbearable Dreamworld of Champa the Driver

University of Washington Press
  • HISTORY / Asia / China (172 Titles)
  • LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism (28 Titles)
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social (291 Titles)

Hardback
April 11, 2017
9780295741307
English
216
9.00 Inches (US)
6.00 Inches (US)
1.09 Pounds (US)
$99.00 USD, £72.00 GBP
v2.1 Reference
Paperback / softback
April 11, 2017
9780295741314
English
216
9.00 Inches (US)
6.00 Inches (US)
.7 Pounds (US)
$25.00 USD, £18.99 GBP
v2.1 Reference
9780295741307 : reporting-for-china-nyiri
Hardback
216 Pages
$99.00 USD
Add to Cart
9780295741314 : reporting-for-china-nyiri
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216 Pages
$25.00 USD
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Other Titles by Pál Nyíri

9780295999302 : chinese-encounters-in-southeast-asia-nyiri-tan-wang-gungwu

Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia

How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a Region
edited by Pál Nyíri, Danielle Tan, foreword by Wang Gungwu
Nov 2016 - University of Washington Press
$99.00 USD - Hardback
$30.00 USD - Paperback / softback
9780295996752 : seeing-culture-everywhere-breidenbach-nyiri

Seeing Culture Everywhere

From Genocide to Consumer Habits
Joana Breidenbach, Pal Nyiri
Jul 2015 - University of Washington Press
$30.00 USD - Paperback / softback
$99.00 USD - Hardback
9780295990156 : mobility-and-cultural-authority-in-contemporary-china-nyiri

Mobility and Cultural Authority in Contemporary China

Pal Nyiri
Apr 2010 - University of Washington Press
$99.00 USD - Hardback
$25.00 USD - Paperback / softback
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9780295751221 : chinese-autobiographical-writing-ebrey-zhang-yao

Chinese Autobiographical Writing

An Anthology of Personal Accounts
edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Cong Ellen Zhang, Ping Yao
Jan 2023 - University of Washington Press
$99.00 USD - Hardback
$30.00 USD - Paperback / softback
9780295750828 : porcelain-for-the-emperor-chen

Porcelain for the Emperor

Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China
Kai Jun Chen
Jan 2023 - University of Washington Press
$65.00 USD - Hardback
9780998587219 : eternal-offerings-yang-bagley-xueqin

Eternal Offerings

Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Minneapolis Institute of Art
edited by Liu Yang, with Robert Bagley, Li Xueqin, Jenny F. So, Zhu Fenghan
Dec 2022 - Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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