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 was a member of the National Communication Association’s Task Force on Fostering International Collaboration in the Age of Globalization and worked with the Communication University of China to co-organize NCA-CUC cosponsored biennial conferences in 2016 and 2018. In 2019 he worked with Shenzhen University to co-organize the NCA-SZU 2019 Shenzhen Forum. Dodge was the 2018 inaugural fellow for the NCA-CUC Visiting Fellows Program for Communication and Media Research. He is also the 2018–2020 Association for Chinese Communication Studies’ Vice President and will serve as the ACCS President in 2020–2022.

• Contents Introduction: Communication Convergence and “the Core” for a New Era Part 1. Convergence and Fragmentation in the “New Era” On the Paradox of Convergence and Fragmentation in the Age of Globalization-Stephen J. Hartnett, Zhengrong Hu, Qingwen Dong, Zhi Li, and Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge Convergence and Fragmentation in the Umbrella Revolution: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Mainlandization of Hong Kong-Andrew Gilmore Fragmentation and Convergence in the Construction of National Imaginaries in US and Chinese Documentaries-Zhi Li and Xi Wang Part 2. Communication and Crisis in the Age of Convergence Dueling Narratives of Distrust, Hypocrisy, and Blame: The 2014 US–China Cyber Controversy-Michelle Murray Yang and Da Wang Huawei and the 2019 Cybersecurity Crisis: Sino–US Conflict in the Age of Convergence-Jufei Wan and Bryan R. Reckard Evolving Forms of Citizen Engagement in the Age of Convergence: The 2016 Baidu and Ctrip Crises as Case Studies in Critique, Trust, and Hope in Contemporary China-Jack Kangjie Liu and Dan Wang Part 3. Case Studies in the Changing Mediascape of China Rebuilding in Unity: The 2015 Tianjin Explosions and Renewal Discourses in Chinese Social Media-Lisa B. Keränen and Yimeng Li Code Switching and Language Games in Contemporary China; or, Convergence and Identity Construction on WeChat-Todd L. Sandel and Peimin Qiu “Plowing Fortunes,” or Fine Wine with Chinese Characteristics: US and UK Media Representations of the Chinese Wine Industry-David R. Gruber Conclusion: US–China Communication and a New Type of Great Power Relations Acknowledgments About the Contributors Index

“Media convergence is well-known as a concept, but as a historical process, it is complicated by changing social contexts. This volume studiesmedia 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