This book investigates the historical trajectory and current situation of popular journalism in post-Mao China and further examines its political-journalistic and social-cultural meanings from an interdisciplinary perspective. It argues that popular journalism in post-Mao China not merely entertains the Chinese masses, but also informs and empowers them in its own way. It further argues that popular journalism in post-Mao China forms as an important and integral part of China’s social-cultural fabric and its changing fate ultimately illustrates the mediated ideological and cultural struggle between popular/public and elite/state discourses in the country’s challenging and discursive transition to modernity.weiterlesen