China's Media, Media's China

Note on Romanization -- Overview -- Ambiguities and Contradictions: Issues in China's Changing Political Communication -- Control, Change, and Opposition -- The Role of the Press in Post-Mao Political Struggles -- The Use and Abuse of Mass Media by Chinese Leaders During the 1980s -- China's Legitimacy Crisis: The Central Role of Information -- Chinese Communist Ideology and Media Control -- The Politics of Publicity in Reform China -- Striving for Predictability: The Bureaucratization of Media Management in China -- The Oppositional Decoding of China's Leninist Media -- Press Control in New China and Old China -- Sparking a Fire: The Press and the Ferment of Democratic Change in Taiwan -- Ideology, Knowledge, and Professionalism -- The American Correspondent in China -- The Historical Fate of “Objective Reporting” in China -- Fighting Against the Odds: Hong Kong Journalists in Transition -- Frost on the Mirror: An American Understanding of China in the Cold War Era -- Push and Pull: A Chinese-American Journalist’s “Home Journeys” -- The Voice of America and China -- U.S. Media Coverage of the Cultural Revolution: A Postscript