TITLE:
Another Possible World—Reading Yuezhi Zhao, Communication and Society: Political Economy and Culture Analysis
AUTHORS:
Yilian Zhang
KEYWORDS:
Globalization, Communication, Introspection
JOURNAL NAME:
Chinese Studies,
Vol.7 No.3,
August
17,
2018
ABSTRACT: Yuezhi Zhao is famous for her theory of communication criticism. In the
western-dominated international academic circles, she is the first critical
scholar of communication in mainland China. In her first Chinese monograph,
“Communication and Society: Political Economy and Culture Analysis”,
put forward “look east, go south”: open up a new perspective of communication
research in the post-crisis era. While deeply worried about the influence
of depoliticization and neoliberalism on Chinese society, she also hoped
that China would be different from the development mode of western capitalism
with patriotism, and put forward the insight that “another world is possible”.