Brand China in the Media: Transformation of Identities

Abstract

With 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.

Citation

Cao, Q., Wu, D., & Tomaselli, K. (Eds.). (2019). Brand China in the Media: Transformation of Identities. Routledge

• Book Type: Edited Book
• Online Publication Date: Sep 3, 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Deposit Date: Jun 2, 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Edition: 1st
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1129185
• Publisher URL: https://www.routledge.com/Brand-China-in-the-Media-Transformation-of-Identities/Cao-Wu-Tomaselli/p/book/9781032089973
• Contract Date: Mar 26, 2019