A BRIEF REVIEW OF CHINESE CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES

Abstract

This article reviews contributions to communication and media studies originating in Taiwan and China during the past decade. While China has provided Chinese readers with a relatively rich critical literature in the media histories of advanced capitalist societies, this literature has been weak in providing discourses regarding China`s own changing media political economy. In comparison, the situation in Taiwan has been quite the opposite. Here, reception of Western media history has been short on class perspective, while recent work has recorded and radically commented on the island`s contemporary media politics of national identity, intellectual intervention, and American-imperialism. This article also provides a brief review of English and Chinese literature which analyses Chinese media systems and communication practices in transition.

Članek predstavlja raziskovalne prispevke zadnega desetletja, ki so nastali na Kitajskem in na Taivanu. Kitajska zagotavlja kitajskim bralcem predvsem bogato literaturo, ki kritčno obravnava razvoj medijev v razvitih kapitalističnih družbah, pa malo obravnav kitajskega medijskega sistema. Razmerje na Taivanu pa je prav nasprotno. Recepcija zahodnega razvoja medijev ne vključuje razredne perspektive, v domačem raziskovanju pa je poudarek na kritiki sodobne medijske politike nacionalne identitete, delovanja intelektualcev in ameriškega imperializma. Prispevek obravnava tudi nekaj liberalnih angleških in kitajskih analiz kitajskega medijskega sistema in komunikacijskih praks v tranziciji.