Description: In a speech opening the nineteenth Chinese Communist Party Congress meeting in October 2017, President Xi Jinping spoke of a "New Era" characterized by new types of communication convergence between the government, Party, and state media. His speech signaled that the role of the media is now more important than ever in cultivating the Party's image at home and disseminating it abroad. Just a year before Xi proclaimed the New Era, scholars had convened in Beijing at a conference cohosted by the Communication University of China and the US-based National Communication Association to address questions about information flows, control, and regulation that directly affect the future of US-China relations. Communication Convergence in Contemporary China presents international perspectives on US -China relations in this New Era with case studies that offer readers informative snapshots of how these relations are changing on the ground, in the lived realities of our daily communication habits.
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PATRICK SHAOU-WHEA DODGE is an Associate Professor Clinical Track and past Associate Program Chair at the
University of Colorado Denver's International College Beijing. He is also the 2018-2020 Association for Chinese
Communication Studies' Vice President and will serve as the ACCS President in 2021-2023.
Review Quotes: "Media convergence is well-known as a concept, but as a historical process, it is complicated by changing social contexts. This volume studies
media convergence in China while making sensitive comparisons with the United States. The result is an engaging comparative study that illuminates the concrete processes of media convergence and fragmentation in both countries. This is an important contribution to the study of global communication as well as media politics in China."
--GUOBIN YANG, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania