Yuezhi Zhao is associate professor and Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Reconfiguring Party-State Power: Market Reforms, Communication, and Control in the Digital AgeChapter 2: Securing the Commanding Heights: Class, Power, and the Transformation of the Party-State's Media and Culture SectorChapter 3: Dancing with Wolves? Transnational Capital, Nationalism, and the Terms of Global ReintegrationChapter 4: Entertaining the Masses: Domestic Private Capital, Popular Culture, and the Role of Cultural EntrepreneursChapter 5: Crusading for Civil Rights and Legal Justice: Possibilities and Limits of Media and Internet MobilizationChapter 6: Challenging Neoliberalism: The Lang Xianping Storm, Property Rights, and Economic JusticeConclusion

An outstanding reference point for what we want to know about China’s communication system. To be sure, the book is about much more than communication. In fact, it embraces most of the complex issues and forces involved in China’s political, economic, and social modernization. . . . To China scholars and students, I say put this book on your list of the top 25 books on contemporary China. It is a superb study based on solid research and strong analysis.

Yuezhi Zhao is associate professor and Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Reconfiguring Party-State Power: Market Reforms, Communication, and Control in the Digital AgeChapter 2: Securing the Commanding Heights: Class, Power, and the Transformation of the Party-State's Media and Culture SectorChapter 3: Dancing with Wolves? Transnational Capital, Nationalism, and the Terms of Global ReintegrationChapter 4: Entertaining the Masses: Domestic Private Capital, Popular Culture, and the Role of Cultural EntrepreneursChapter 5: Crusading for Civil Rights and Legal Justice: Possibilities and Limits of Media and Internet MobilizationChapter 6: Challenging Neoliberalism: The Lang Xianping Storm, Property Rights, and Economic JusticeConclusion

An outstanding reference point for what we want to know about China’s communication system. To be sure, the book is about much more than communication. In fact, it embraces most of the complex issues and forces involved in China’s political, economic, and social modernization. . . . To China scholars and students, I say put this book on your list of the top 25 books on contemporary China. It is a superb study based on solid research and strong analysis.

Yuezhi Zhao is associate professor and Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Reconfiguring Party-State Power: Market Reforms, Communication, and Control in the Digital AgeChapter 2: Securing the Commanding Heights: Class, Power, and the Transformation of the Party-State's Media and Culture SectorChapter 3: Dancing with Wolves? Transnational Capital, Nationalism, and the Terms of Global ReintegrationChapter 4: Entertaining the Masses: Domestic Private Capital, Popular Culture, and the Role of Cultural EntrepreneursChapter 5: Crusading for Civil Rights and Legal Justice: Possibilities and Limits of Media and Internet MobilizationChapter 6: Challenging Neoliberalism: The Lang Xianping Storm, Property Rights, and Economic JusticeConclusion

An outstanding reference point for what we want to know about China’s communication system. To be sure, the book is about much more than communication. In fact, it embraces most of the complex issues and forces involved in China’s political, economic, and social modernization. . . . To China scholars and students, I say put this book on your list of the top 25 books on contemporary China. It is a superb study based on solid research and strong analysis.