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China and the African Internet: Perspectives from Kenya and Ethiopia

Iginio Gagliardone

Index Communicación, volume 3, issue 2 (2013), pp. 67-82

"Through the lens of China in Africa, this paper explores the transformations in the relationship between the Internet and the state. China’s economic success, impressive growth of Internet users and relative stability have quietly promoted an example of how the Internet can be deployed within the ... more

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The Role of Public Sentiment and Social Media in the Evolving China-Africa Relationship

Yu-Shan Wu

Johannesburg: South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) (2013), 24 pp.

"The demands of public diplomacy have shifted with the development of social media technologies. Increasingly, governments are required to gauge and respond to public sentiment over and above the one-way communication of broadcast media. The social media and accompanying elevated public role have co ... more

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Nationalism and Preferences for Domestic and Foreign Animation Programmes in China

Kenichi Ishii

International Communication Gazette, volume 75, issue 2 (2013), pp. 225-245

"Since China implemented animation control policies in 2004, foreign animation programmes have almost disappeared from Chinese television. At the same time, the Chinese government has invested enormous amounts of money in developing the animation industry as a creative industry. A questionnaire surv ... more

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China as a Persuader: CCTV Africa's First Steps in the African Mediasphere

Iginio Gagliardone

African Journalism Studies, volume 34, issue 3 (2013), pp. 25-40

"China, in seeking greater engagement with African audiences, has dramatically boosted its potential to shape narratives in ways that can favour its image or interests abroad. Focusing on CCTV Africa, China’s flagship efforts to win hearts and minds on the continent, the article explains how this ... more

Partner, Prototype or Persuader? China’s Renewed Media Engagement with Ghana

Iginio Gagliardone, Nicole Stremlau, Daniel Nkrumah

Communication, Politics & Culture, volume 45 (2012), pp. 174-196

"This article provides an empirically grounded assessment of China’s increasing role in the African mediasphere. It examines the strategic importance of Chinese media assistance to Ghana along three dimensions: the potential appeal of the Chinese approach to information regulation for countries st ... more

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The Rise of China’s State-Led Media Dynasty in Africa

Yu-Shan Wu

Johannesburg: South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) (2012), 31 pp.

"Traces China's media engagement in Africa since the 2000s, including a list of financed projects (pp. 13-15), and explains how strategies have changed. While the extension of hardware assistance continues to play an important role, China's media engagement in Africa started to diversify after the 2 ... more

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Chinese Television 'internationalization' and the Search for Creativity

Hugo de Burgh, Zeng Rong, Chen Siming

Creative Industries Journal, volume 4, issue 2 (2012), pp. 137-154

"In order to maintain competitive edge over both domestic rivals and international competition, Chinese television companies have been looking abroad for ideas. A number of political and commercial concerns have come together to inform a sudden interest by Chinese media companies in creativity and i ... more

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Soft Power in China: Public Diplomacy Through Communication

Jian Wang (ed.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), 221 pp.

"The book provides a glimpse into how China has tried to tell its story to the world. The introduction chapter outlines the broader context for the examination of Chinese public diplomacy. It discusses some of the emerging themes concerning the spirit and practice of the country’s image-building e ... fforts. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the trends and developments in Chinese public diplomacy, and discusses how China’s authoritarian system has benefits as well as drawbacks for its soft power pursuits. In the next three chapters, we examine some of the major Chinese external propaganda and communication platforms, including Beijing Review, CCTV International (renamed CCTV News in April 2010), and government news conferences and spokespersons [...] Chapter 6 takes on a relatively new topic of the increasing role of Chinese corporations in the process of public diplomacy. It examines the complex interplay between corporate branding and nation branding in the example of a leading Chinese company’s corporate social responsibility engagement in Africa. The ensuing two chapters cover China’s image promotion related to the Beijing Olympics from two different vantage points. Chapter 7 discusses the promotion of the Olympics to the Chinese domestic public, who were expected to be model citizens helping to deliver a positive image of China during the Games. This can be viewed as a case of how “charm offensive” begins on the home front. Chapter 8 sheds light on the role of the ever more active Chinese diaspora in national image management through its mobilization in defense of China’s image during the international leg of the Olympic torch relay. To provide some historical context to the discussion of China’s contemporary endeavor, Chapter 9 examines how the conception of “international propaganda” was formulated and institutionalized in early twentieth century China. It highlights the role of Chinese intellectuals in promoting China’s international communication. Our last essay explores higher education as a site of image-construction. It ref lects on how American college students read and evaluate China based on their perspectives and news sources. It ends with an imaginary dialogue between a Chinese journalist and an American journalist on mutual misperceptions, and possibilities for change, providing an “enjoyable and hopeful” conclusion to the book." (Preface, pages ix-x) more

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The Globalization of Chinese Television: The Role of the Party-State

Hong Zhang

International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 7 (2011), pp. 573-594

"China’s television sector has undergone rapid transformation since the country’s reform and opening-up in the late 1970s. This article presents the main results of a recently completed PhD project, aiming to understand the role of the Chinese party-state in this transformation. The project supp ... more

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China in South Africa: The Media’s Response to a Developing Relationship

Herman Wasserman

Grahamstown: Rhodes University, School of Journalism and Media Studies (2011), 20 pp.

"Literature about China’s role in Africa suggests that China’s presence on the continent is often viewed in stark binary terms, as either an exploitative, predatory force or a benevolent, development partner. An analysis of attitudes in the South African media over the last three years (if De Be ... more

Die China-Berichterstattung in den deutschen Medien

Carola Richter, Sebastian Gebauer

Berlin: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2010), 300 pp.

China in Africa: A New Approach to Media Development?

Iginio Gagliardone, Maria Repnikova, Nicole Stremlau

Oxford; London: University of Oxford, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP);Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research (2010), 21 pp.

"In the past few years China has rapidly become an important player in the media sector in many African countries in at least three ways. First, its economic success and the impressive growth of media outlets and users within China have quietly promoted an example of how the media can be deployed wi ... more

Reorienting Global Communication: Indian and Chinese Media Beyond Borders

Michael Curtin, Hemant Shah (eds.)

Urbana: University of Illinois Press (2010), 313 pp.

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Winds from the East: How the People’s Republic of China Seeks to Influence the Media in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia

Douglas Farah, Andy Mosher

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 32 pp.

"The People's Republic of China is seeking to influence the media in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia through a variety of means: direct aid to state-run media in the form of radio transmitters and financing for national satellites; the provision of content and technology to allies and pote ... more

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China's Propaganda and Influence Operations, its Intelligence Activities That Target the United States, and the Resulting Impacts on U.S. National Security: Hearing Before the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission

Washington, DC: United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (2009), vii, 176 pp.

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China-Africa Media Relations

Suzanne Franks, Kate Ribet

Global Media and Communication, volume 5, issue 1 (2009), pp. 129-136

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Internationalization of the Chinese TV Sector

Manfred Kops, Stefan Ollig (eds.)

Münster: Lit (2007), 336 pp.

"In this reader media experts discuss the prospects and problems of program exchange between German and Chinese Broadcasters. They explain that program exchange is not the cockaigne one could assume with regard to the non-rivalry of media content and the huge Chinese TV market (more than 300 million ... more

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Playing to the World's Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV

Michael Curtin

London; Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press (2007), x, 341 pp.