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The Chinese Journalist: Mediating Information in the World's Most Populous Country

London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon (2005), xiv, 248 pp.

Contains bibliogr. pp. 223-240, index

ISBN 9780415405973 (pbk); 9780203323267 (ebook)

Signature commbox: 313:10-Journalism 2003

The inheritance
Media characteristics
The burden of the past I: from Yanan to the great proletarian Cultural Revolution
The burden of the past II: from the Cultural Revolution to the Tiananmen massacre
The political context for journalism today
The patriot journalists
The journalist as tribune
Becoming a journalist
Who do they think they are?
Making news: a case study
Conclusion: beliefs and practices, myths and realities