The Will to Power: the BAT in and beyond China
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This chapter examines the imperative for China to compete for international cultural acclaim. The term ‘strong cultural power’ (wenhua qiangguo), is a slogan institutionalised by the Xi Jinping regime to reclaim China’s lost cultural ascendency and normalise operations. What is ...
See moreThis chapter examines the imperative for China to compete for international cultural acclaim. The term ‘strong cultural power’ (wenhua qiangguo), is a slogan institutionalised by the Xi Jinping regime to reclaim China’s lost cultural ascendency and normalise operations. What is cultural power and how does Chinese media become powerful? While state media institutions are restrained from creative risk-taking another force is arising, which describe as BAT, an acronym for Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, China’s leading internet companies, which are rapidly establishing global connections and taking Chinese media into new territories, either through co-productions or by buying foreign assets.
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See moreThis chapter examines the imperative for China to compete for international cultural acclaim. The term ‘strong cultural power’ (wenhua qiangguo), is a slogan institutionalised by the Xi Jinping regime to reclaim China’s lost cultural ascendency and normalise operations. What is cultural power and how does Chinese media become powerful? While state media institutions are restrained from creative risk-taking another force is arising, which describe as BAT, an acronym for Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, China’s leading internet companies, which are rapidly establishing global connections and taking Chinese media into new territories, either through co-productions or by buying foreign assets.
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2018Source title
Willing Collaborators: Foreign Partners in Chinese MediaPublisher
Rowman & LittlefieldLicence
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Literature, Art and MediaDepartment, Discipline or Centre
Department of Media and CommunicationShare