The latest addition to the acclaimed series, this one-of-a-kind visual survey captures the current state of the awakening superpower in the East--China. Full-color maps and distinctive graphics offer accessible, incisive information about this emergent international player. For centuries the world's most populous country, China now has the fastest growing economy, which threatens to surpass the United States. The profound changes occurring in China are illustrated in this atlas, along with some clashes of priorities: between population growth and the one-child family; human rights and political stability; energy needs and the environment.

The State of China Atlas

History

Donald, Stephanie Hemelryk

Benewick, Robert

Asia

Penguin??Books

A timely reference guide to the global communications revolution explores key issues of the information age and offers forecasts about future trends as it covers such topics as censorship, Web sites, cellular phones, online education, television, computers and computing, advertising, new technologies, and the future of print media. Original.

The Penguin Atlas of Media and Information: Key Issues and Global Trends

Computers & Technology

DONALD, JAMES

Balnaves, Mark

Web Development & Design

This unique textbook is a manageable introduction to all the theories and approaches that make up media studies, giving students an informed, balanced and global view of media today. Exploring the evolution of media internationally, this book offers theory and evidence in its discussion of past and present modes of media. Divided into four parts, readers are offered insight into critical theories and topics such as ‘Social and Global Change,’ ‘the Influence of Media,’ ‘Intercultural Communication’ and ‘News as a Form of Knowledge.’ Written by leading experts within media studies, Balnaves, Donald and Shoesmith lend their wealth of knowledge to the student reader through this text, guiding them through the progression of cultural and media studies. Genuinely global and cutting-edge, this leading textbook is the ideal learning resource for lecturers of media studies and undergraduate and postgraduate students seeking gain a thorough understanding of worldwide media, past and present. 

Media Theories and Approaches: A Global Perspective

Politics & Social Sciences

Shoesmith, Brian

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This unique textbook is a manageable introduction to all the theories and approaches that make up media studies, giving students an informed, balanced and global view of media today. Exploring the evolution of media internationally, this book offers theory and evidence in its discussion of past and present modes of media. Divided into four parts, readers are offered insight into critical theories and topics such as ‘Social and Global Change,’ ‘the Influence of Media,’ ‘Intercultural Communication’ and ‘News as a Form of Knowledge.’ Written by leading experts within media studies, Balnaves, Donald and Shoesmith lend their wealth of knowledge to the student reader through this text, guiding them through the progression of cultural and media studies. Genuinely global and cutting-edge, this leading textbook is the ideal learning resource for lecturers of media studies and undergraduate and postgraduate students seeking gain a thorough understanding of worldwide media, past and present.

Media in China: Consumption, Content and Crisis

This book is about a new kind of revolution in China - a revolution in which rapidly commercializing media industries confront slow-changing power relations between political, social and economic spheres.

Keane, Michael

Hong, Yin

Routledge

This magnificently produced atlas provides a unique visual survey of the profound economic, political, and social changes taking place in China, as well as their implications for the world at large. China has the world's fastest-growing economy and is the second-largest trading nation. With its pro-entrepreneurial outlook and population of 1.3 billion, it offers unique opportunities for domestic and overseas investors. This dynamic volume provides an abundance of information on China's new wealth, growing unemployment, mass migration to the cities, and trade disputes. Completely Revised and Updated: * Vivid full-color maps convey a wealth of information quickly and efficiently * Comprehensive information on China's population, employment, agriculture, industry, and economics Copub: Myriad Editions Limited

The State of China Atlas: Mapping the World’s Fastest-Growing Economy

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

University of California Press

Little Friends: Children's Film and Media Culture in China (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)

Contributing to the growing debates on children and media worldwide, Little Friends explores the pervasive presence of film culture in the lives of children in China. The book also introduces the work of the little-known Children's Film Studio and the Film Course, a reform-period attempt by Chinese filmmakers and policy leaders to control the media to which schoolchildren were exposed. Stephanie Donald uses expansive firsthand interviews, children's drawings, and film history to tell a compelling cinematic story before it is forgotten in the onrush of globalized culture. She is especially careful to bring in the interests and experiences of children themselves. The book follows the trajectory of contemporary media analysis in privileging the use as well as the content of media. The author's 'turn' to the end-user enriches her discussion of media literacy, cultural competencies, and--perhaps especially in the Chinese case--consideration of the desired uses of media in relation to state priorities and social expectations. This is a trend that belongs to an era of digital experimentation and commercial development; in interactive television, streamed news and entertainment, and the multiple, unintended uses of Internet and mobile technologies. Notwithstanding the contemporary context, Donald's arguments consider a range of media deployment that, although not especially new in technological terms, offer new insights into a formalized Chinese media system for children. Scholars and students of Asian and children's film and education will find this unique work a fascinating window into Chinese culture and society and a provocative exploration of media culture.

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Comparing the major Pacific Rim cities of Sydney, Hong Kong and Shanghai, this book examines world city branding. Whilst all three cities compete on the world's stage for events, tourists and investment, they are also at the centre of distinct film traditions and their identities are thus strongly connected with a cinematic impression. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book not only analyses the city branding of these cities from the more widely researched perspectives of tourism, marketing and regional development, but also draws in cultural studies and psychology approaches which offer fresh and useful insights to place branding and marketing in general. The authors compare and contrast qualitative and quantitative original data as well as critically analyzing current texts and debates on city branding. In conclusion, they argue that city branding should contribute not only to regional development and identity, but also to sustainable economic well-being and public happiness.

Tourism and the Branded City: Film and Identity on the Pacific Rim (New Directions in Tourism Analysis)

Business & Money

Gammack, John G.

Marketing & Sales

A comprehensive guide to the global communications revolution. The book is presented in the form of over 50 colour maps which graphically depict the global diffusion of old and new media. As well as presenting up-to-date data, the book extrapolates trends on a wide variety of topics illustrating the huge disparities across the media world. The topics covered include: print media and the digital age; phones/mobiles; media moguls; media piracy; world music; global villages; learning online; film production; Websites of the world; advertising standards and regulation; and the world of ratings.

The Global Media Atlas

Television

British Film Institute

There's No Place Like Home: The Migrant Child in World Cinema

Photography & Video

Bloomsbury Academic

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