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China's Cultural Diplomacy in a New Era of Multilateralism: The Case of the China-Community of Latin American & Caribbean States (CELAC) Forum (CCF)

Ximena Zapata

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 195 pp.

"Cultural diplomacy has been one component of China’s foreign policy since its very foundation. However, it is only in recent decades that culture has been wielded as a tool to serve high-reaching goals commensurate with China’s rising superpower status and its capacity to contend for global heg ... more

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Mundo China: The media partnership reframing China’s image in Brazil

Pablo Sebastian Morales, Paulo Menechelli

International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 1 (2023), pp. 63-79

"This paper explores China’s increasing media engagement with Latin American partners. It examines the case of Mundo China (MC), a China-news segment broadcast by the Brazilian news channel BandNews TV and co-produced in partnership with CCTV. By conducting content analysis, we assess how China is ... more

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Belt and Road Initiative supported co-production films: Film policy and disoriented remembrance of the Silk Road past

Pengnan Hu

International Communication Gazette, volume 48, issue 62 (2023), pp. 48-62

"Through policy analysis and close reading of two films, this article reveals films’ increasing role in China’s geopolitical plan, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The co-production film Xuanzang shows that the Silk Road past is used to illustrate BRI’s pledge for a beneficial future. Even ... more

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China’s Media Propaganda in Africa: A Strategic Assessment

Joshua Eisenman

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2023), 23 pp.

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Politicizing for the idol: China’s idol fandom nationalism in pandemic

Yan Wang, Ting Luo

Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 2 (2023), pp. 304-320

"Chinese idol fans have been identified among the main forces in cyber nationalist activisms in recent years, acting as the nationalist fans protecting the state as an idol in response to external political shocks. Their skills in acknowledging, involving, and even reinventing the image of the state ... more

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China's Approach to Foreign Policy Gets Largely Negative Reviews in 24-Country Survey

Laura Silver, Christine Huang, Laura Clancy

Pew Research Center (2023), 66 pp.

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Changing tides in Zambian television broadcasting: Digital migration and Chinese engagement

Elastus Mambwe

Global Media and Communication, volume 19, issue 3 (2023), pp. 357-371

"This paper examines the recent shifts and debates in the organization of the television landscape following the implementation of digital migration in Zambia. It ponders Zambia’s experience in the digital migration exercise, playing particular attention to the country’s interaction with the Chi ... more

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Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective

Michael Butter, Peter Knight (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 397 pp.

"Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic have circulated widely around the world. Covid conspiracy theories have attracted considerable attention from researchers, journalists, ... more

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The Global Battle of Narratives: China’s Media Influence in Thailand

Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Thanapat Pekanan

Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (2023), 14 pp.

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The everything everywhere censorship in China: China is exporting its model of Internet governance based on digital repression. The free world must protect our values and take back our Internet

Charles Mok

Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2023), 51 pp.

"Democracies must say no to the technologies, platforms, standards, and frameworks shrewdly proposed by China in various international fora and technical or standards bodies in order to make our Internet more like the one in China. Internet governance must be kept open and participatory for all stak ... more

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India: Trailblazer in Tech-Emancipation from China

Nikhil Pahwa

New Delhi: Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (2023), 39 pp.

"Over the past few years, India has taken decisive steps to reduce its dependence on Chinese technology and investments. This was triggered by border skirmishes with China in 2020, but built on longstanding national security concerns about China, given the history of conflict between the two countri ... more

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The Representation of Rural Christianity in the Films of Gan Xiao’er

Jing Li

Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 9, issue 2 (2023), pp. 101-125

"The religious dimension of Chinese cinema is, it has been observed, a "triple lacuna" in contemporary scholarship: in research on religion in China, in research on Chinese cinema, and in interdisciplinary research on film and religion. From 2002 to 2012, independent filmmaker Gan Xiao'er directed t ... more

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Understanding African journalistic agency in China–Africa media interactions: The case of Kenya

Hangwei Li

International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 1 (2023), pp. 32-47

"Drawing on field observations and extensive interviews, this study investigates how Kenyan media practitioners exercise their agency when interacting with Chinese stakeholders. When dealing with Chinese stakeholders or China-related stories, Kenyan media practitioners developed three strategies to ... more

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Censorship from Plato to Social Media: The Complexity of Social Media's Content Regulation and Moderation Practices

Gergely Gosztonyi

Cham: Springer (2023), xiv, 189 pp.

"In many countries, censorship, blocking of internet access and internet content for political purposes are still part of everyday life. Will filtering, blocking, and hacking replace scissors and black ink? This book argues that only a broader understanding of censorship can effectively protect free ... more

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Measuring religion in China: Many Chinese adults practice religion or hold religious beliefs, but only 1 in 10 formally identify with a religion

Pew Research Center (2023), 160 pp.

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Social media-based urban disaster recovery and resilience analysis of the Henan deluge

Siqing Shan, Feng Zhao

Natural Hazards, volume 118 (2023), pp. 377-405

"Measuring disaster resilience from the perspective of long-term recovery ability is important for the planning and construction of urban sustainability, whereas short-term resilient recovery can better reflect a city’s ability to recover quickly after a disaster occurs. This study proposes an ana ... more

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China's Discourse Power: Capabilities and Impact

Kenton Thibaut

Washington, DC: Atlantic Council (2023), 40 pp.

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Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression

Saskia Witteborn

Minneapolis: Stanford University Press (2023), 252 pp.

"Unruly Speech explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical limits with "unruly" communication practices in a quest for change. Drawing on research in China, the United States, and Germany, Saskia Witteborn situates her study against the backdrop of displacement and sh ... more

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Global South Discourse in East Asian Media Studies

Dal Yong Jin

London; New York: Routledge (2023), 187 pp.

"This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from a Global South perspective. Providing an empirically rich analysis of the emergence of Asian culture, histories, texts, and state policies as they relate to both Asian media and global ... more

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‘Push-and-pull’ for visibility: How do fans as users negotiate over algorithms with Chinese digital platforms?

Yiyan Zhang, Shengchun Huang, Tong Li

Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 2 (2023), pp. 321-339

"In the algorithmic era, both users and the platform battle for visibility. Chinese fans are savvy users who explore the hidden algorithms behind platform functions. With the collectively developed algorithmic imaginary, digital fandom communities negotiate with the platform over algorithms to optim ... more