The post-WTO restructuring of the Chinese media industries and the consequences of capitalisation

Hu, Zhengrong (author)

This article examines the forces that have led to the recent restructuring of the Chinese media system. It demonstrates that the current developing situation is the result of the interplay of complex forces. On the one hand, there are conflicts between different levels of the political apparatus, while this apparatus as a whole has a thousand links with economic power, but also a quite different dynamic. At the same time, there is a strong desire to construct large Chinese media conglomerates that can resist the likely incursions of transnational media corporations in order to ensure that local economic and political power remains intact. The outcomes of the interplay of these different pressures is far from clear at the moment and it is unlikely that the pace of change will be sufficiently rapid as to allow a quick resolution to the complex problems that have arisen. It is, however, generally the case that, over the last two decades, the power of the market has been increasing relative to the old political imperatives: this process maybe termed the "capitalisation" of the Chinese media. These two forces, however, should not be seen as mutually exclusive. Rather, then exist today in a strained but mutually legitimating relationship, and it is likely that the future development of media will result in a deepening of this alliance, to the exclusion of marginal voices and the increased hegemony of both political power and capital power.

• Language: English
• Keywords: tržni mehanizmi, market mechanism
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2003
• Number of pages: Str. 19-36
• Numbering: Vol. 10, no. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-75936
• UDC: 659.3/.4
• ISSN on article: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 22624093
• 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: Posledice prestrukturiranja kitajskih medijev po vstopu v WTO

Abstract

Članek obravnava silnice, ki so vodile k sedanjemu prestrukturiranju kitajskega medijskega sistema. To je na eni strani posledica nasprotij med različnimi ravnmi politične oblasti, ki je tesno povezana z ekonomsko močjo, hkrati pa ima povsem drugačno dinamiko. Po drugi strani pa obstajajo močne težnje po oblikovanju velikih kitajskih medijskih konglomeratov, ki bi kljubovali transnacionalnim medijskim korporacijam in zagotavljali, da bi ostali domači politična in gospodarska oblast nedotaknjeni. Izid delovanja teh nasprotnih teženj je negotov. Nasploh se je v zadnjih dveh desetletjih moč trga povečevala v primerjavi s političnimi imperativi, kar bi lahko označili za "kapitalizacijo" kitajskih medijev. Obeh vrst teženj pa ne moremo obravnavati kot medsebojno izključnih: med njima obstajajo napetosti, a se hkrati vzajemno legitimirata, zato je verjetno, da se bo v nadaljnjem razvoju medijev to zavezništvo še poglabljalo, kar bo imelo za posledico izključevanje marginalnih glasov in hegemonijo moči politike in kapitala.