Transnational capital, the Chinese state, and China's communication industries in a fractured society

Zhao, Yuezhi (author)

China's accession to the World Trade Organisation has significantly accelerated the country's integration with global capitalism through its bureaucratically-controlled and market-driven communication industries. The specific terms and conditions of this integration has meant that a newly reconstituted power bloc - consisting of the bureaucratic capitalists of a reformed Party state, transnational corporate capital, and an emerging urban middle class, whose members are the favoured consumers of both domestic and transnational capital - has assumed hegemonic dominance of the communicative processes both in and out of China. At the same time, this process has been highly contentious, and continues to be mediated by both nationalistic and leftist ideological legacies of the Chinese state and emerging forms of social and cultural contestation. This paper examines this integration from a transnational and transcultural political economic perspective. It begins with a critique of the Chinese nationalist and democracy frameworks in analyzing this integration, and then moves on to analyze the structural and ideological dimensions of China's semi-integrated communication industries and markets and identify new patterns of inclusion and exclusion in the distribution of communicative power. At the centre of this analysis lie tensions between national and class interests; between the imperatives of capital accumulation and the communication needs of an increasingly fractured society; and, between horizontal and vertical communication among different social groups in a globalising context.

• Language: English
• Keywords: globalni razvoj
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2003
• Number of pages: Str. 53-73
• Numbering: Vol. 10, no. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-75422
• UDC: 659.3/.4
• ISSN on article: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 22624861
• Publication date in RUL: 21.12.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Javnost
• Shortened title: Javnost
• Publisher: Taylor&Francis
• ISSN: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 40119808

Secondary language

• Language: Unknown
• Title: Transnacionalni kapital, kitajska država in kitajski mediji v prelomnem obdobju

Abstract

Vstop Kitajske v Svetovno trgovinsko organizacijo je bistveno pospešil vključevanje njene birokratsko nadzorovane in tržno vodene "komunikacijske industrije" v globalni kapitalizem. Novo izoblikovani oblastni blok, ki ga sestavljajo birokratski kapitalisti reformirane partijske države, transnacionalni korporacijski kapital in nastajajoči urbani srednji razred, katerega pripadnikom sta kot konzumentom naklonjena domači in transnacionalni kapital, je dobil hegemonično prevlado v komunikacijskih procesih v Kitajski in zunaj nje. Vendar ima ta proces nasprotnike tako med nacionalističnimi in levičarskimi ideologi kitajske države kot v novih oblikah socialnega in kulturnega delovanja. Izhajajoč iz kritike kitajskih nacionalističnih in demokratičnih okvirov članek analizira strukture in ideološke razsežnosti delne integracije kitajske komunikacijske industrije in trga ter razkriva nove vzorce vključevanja in izključevanja v distribuciji komunikativne moči. V središču analize so nasprotja med nacionalnimi in razrednimi interesi, med imperativom akumulacije kapitala in komunikacijskimi potrebami v vse bolj razslojeni družbi ter med horizontalnim in vertikalnim komuniciranjem med različnimi družbenimi skupinami v kontekstu globalizacije