Market or party controls? Chinese media in transition

Gazette

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 255-270

  Winfield, Betty Houchin ^a,b   Peng, Zengjun ^a,c  

^a Department of Political Communications ^*  (United States)

^b Earl English Graduate Studies Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese media; Media; Media system; Political communications; Press control; Press models; Press theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 29044434876     PISSN: 00165492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016549205052228     Document Type: Article

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