After the Propaganda State: Media, Politics, and 'Thought Work' in Reformed China

By Daniel C. Lynch

Book Overview

This book argues that a combination of property rights reform, administrative fragmentation, and technological advance has caused the post-Mao Chinese state to lose a significant degree of control over "thought work," or the management of propagandistic communications flowing into and through Chinese society.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804734615
• ISBN13: 9780804734615
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"