Radio and Social Transformation in China

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Transforming radio in China: Introduction to an understudied medium
	Why radio?
	A global perspective: radio studies in general
	A Chinese perspective: studies of Chinese radio
	Privatization in post-Mao China
	Globalization in post-Mao China
	Individualization in post-Mao China
	Social change and radio in post-Mao China
	Sources and methods
	Structure and scope
	Note
	References
Chapter 2: Radio and a revolutionary China: From the Republic of China era to the Mao era
	Political change, market retreat and cultural reform
	Mapping radio in the Republic of China
		From a military application to an instrument of political governance: radio in the Republic of China
		The rise of a commercial radio culture in Shanghai
		Radio in Japanese-occupied Northeast China
		Chinese Communist Party-controlled radio in Western China
	Locating radio in Mao-era China
		From a radio sound reception network to a wired loudspeaker network in Mao-era China
		Collective listening and the making of Chinese public life in Mao-era China
		The cultural politics of radio programme-making in Mao-era China
		Listening to radio broadcasts from foreign enemy countries
	Sound in the past: the multiple roles of radio in building China towards a socialist nation
	References
Chapter 3: Radio news and the articulation of one voice: Continuity and transformation of China National Radio’s Channel One
	The collectivization of the production – and listening to – of radio news in Mao-era China
		News as planned: a genealogy of national conferences focusing on the broadcasting sector in Mao-era China
		The inflow and outflow of news items: multi-dimensional news supply
		Beyond the sound distribution of print news: developing radio into a production site for news
		The collectivization of radio news listening: one unified listening public
	Reform of radio news in post-Mao China
		Channel One in the 1990s: making radio news in the space between the top and the bottom
		From Channel One to Voice of China: further reform towards information-oriented news and associated challenges
		Towards all news on Voice of China: further response to the rise of a privatized, globalized and individualized China
		Individualization of radio news listening: multiple stratified listening publics
	The changed and unchanged of radio news from the Mao era to the post-Mao era in China
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: Late night talkback radio: The production of intimacy in post-Mao China
	On-air talk about personal issues in post-Mao China
	Talkback radio as an intimate genre
		The deployment of two-way radio communication in post-Mao China
		The localization of the talkback format in post-Mao China
		The transformation of intimacy in post-Mao China
	Late night talkback radio: the mass production of intimacy
		Four strategies adopted in the production of intimacy
		Intimate issues and motives for phoning in
	Between egalitarianism and authoritarianism: the paradox of intimacy
		Share a Good Night across a Thousand Miles
		Letters to the Garden of Love and Sexuality
	Listening at the margin
	The waning popularity of late night talkback radio
	Radio and intimacy: an enduring issue in post-Mao China
	Notes
	References
Chapter 5: Health infomercial radio: Privatization, medicine and self-responsibility in post-Mao China
	Health broadcasting in post-Mao China
	The transformation of health in post-Mao China
		The commercialization of the public healthcare system in post-Mao China
		The socio-cultural redefinition of health in post-Mao China
	Advertising the promise of health: a lifeline for the struggling radio sector in post-Mao China
		The commercialized relationship between radio and health in post-Mao China
		The corruption of the regulative system for medical advertising
		The separation of production and distribution in the broadcasting sector
	Health infomercial radio: the mass production of the promise of health
		The production of expertise: the authoritarian medical figure armed with scientific discourse
		Adoption of the talkback format: the production of an appreciative doctor–patient relationship
		Articulation of the commercial purpose: the limited availability of the promoted medicinal products
	The consumption of the promise of health: the elderly, the rural and the migrant
		Consuming the illusion of health: from the credulous to the sceptical
		The shift from obedient listening to strategic listening
	From promise to risk: the twisted relationship between radio and health in post-Mao China
	References
Chapter 6: Drive radio and the construction of urban middle-class identities: From traffic radio to the ‘Car World’
	Building a connection between radio and cars in contemporary China
	The notion of automobility and its structured practice: a conceptual introduction
	The initial emergence of drive radio as a channel in urban China
		Development of the scope and function of drive radio
		The commercialization of automobility in urban China
		The commercialization of drive radio
		Taxi drivers: the gendered listening group and its class reformation
		Ordinary Folks Taxi (Baixing Taxi)
	The reorientation of drive radio: the production and consumption of privatized automobility
		The privatization of automobility in contemporary China
		Car World (Qiche Tianxia): the upmarket move on Beijing Drive Radio
		The citizenship zone: inclusion and exclusion
		A space for middle-class leisure consumption
	New mobility, new listening: the further making of the Chinese middle class on the road
	Notes
	References
Chapter 7: Digital soundwork in contemporary China: Uncertainty, listening and the betterment of ‘a deficient self ’
	Beyond airwave radio: the rise of digital sound in China
	Digital Chinese soundworks: listening in an age of uncertainty and anxiety
	Turning sound into cash: listening and the promise of a knowledgeable self
	Therapeutic healing with warmth: listening and the management of the heart and soul
	Digital soundwork: the new technology of the self in a changing China
	References
Chapter 8: Missed opportunities and future challenges
	Embodying social change: radio, the Chinese state and modernity
	Parallel changes in the practice of listening to radio in China
	References
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