From the Local to the Global: China’s Television Policy in Transition

Abstract

Despite the long common depiction of China by the West as a totalitarian communist one-party state, the public policymaking in China is hardly monolithic in which a unitary national Chinese State can impose its will into a large number of submissive population. Instead, the growth of localism and local political and economic actors, the rapid internationalization of China’s economy, and the imperative of the restoration of the communist party’s ruling legitimacy in the country has resulted that the policymaking in today’s China not only is a continuous contention and negotiation between different interest groups but also influenced by both domestic and international environment.