Maria Repnikova, Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism

Abstract

In Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism,author Maria Repnikova employs qualitative methods including 120 interviews with media professionals, government officials,and academics, and textual analysis of three very different primary sources: the Communist Party’s theoretical journal Qiushi, Guangzhou’s Nanfang Zhoumo(Southern Weekly), and Beijing’s Caijing(Finance and Economics), the latter two bothprominent beacons of critical journalism in contemporary China. The media professionals interviewed come from across China’s complex journalistic landscape, ranging from state media broadcasters such as China Central Television (CCTV) to commercial media outlets such as Nanfang Zhoumoand Caijing.