{"product_id":"brand-china-in-the-media-paperback-softback","title":"Brand China in the Media - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book examines China’s identity transformations with a focus on self-perceptions and their representations and communication in the mass media. By considering the internal dynamics of change, it explores the emerging multifaceted ‘China brand’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith its growing economic clout, China has taken a proactive stance in shaping global economic and strategic order through ambitious programmes such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the ‘Belt and Road’ initiative. However, as a developing country, China is at pains to manage its own transformations while trying to carve out an international identity. Arguably, China’s unique sense of history and identities may lead to a ‘contested modernity’ or ‘multiple modernities’; radically different from the prevalent classical theories of modernisation and convergence of industrial societies. To understand China’s trajectory of future development has been a major issue in international affairs. This book is concerned with how China’s hybridised identities are articulated, and intertwined with situational, institutional, and societal dynamics – and how they are interwoven with China’s international outlook which converges with or diverges from China’s historical assumptions and beliefs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of interest to those studying China’s identity in the media; situated at the juncture of past, present, and future, and between China and the wider world. The chapters in this book were originally published in \u003ci\u003eCritical Arts\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45600950812910,"sku":"9781032089973","price":65.59,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/brand-china-in-the-media-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}