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100	1		_aChua, Emily H. C. _eauthor _1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4032-7705
245	1	4	_aThe Currency of Truth : _bNewsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era / _cEmily H.C. Chua
264		1	_aAnn Arbor : _bUniversity of Michigan Press, _c2023.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2023
264		4	_c©2023.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aChina understandings today
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520	3		_aChina’s news sector is a place where newsmakers, advertising executives, company bosses, and Party officials engage one another in contingent and evolving arrangements that run from cooperation and collaboration to manipulation and betrayal. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with journalists, editors, and executives at a newspaper in Guangzhou, The Currency of Truth brings its readers into the lives of the people who write, publish, and profit from news in this milieu. The book shows that far from working as mere cogs in a Party propaganda machine, these individuals are immersed in fluidly shifting networks of formal and informal relationships, which they carefully navigate to pursue diverse goals. In The Currency of Truth, Emily H. C. Chua argues that news in China works less as a medium of mass communication than as a kind of currency as industry players make and use news articles to create agreements, build connections, and protect and advance their positions against one another. Looking at the ethical and professional principles that well-intentioned and civically minded journalists strive to uphold, and the challenges and doubts that they grapple with in the process, Chua brings her findings into conversation around “post-truth” news and the “crisis” of professional journalism in the West. The book encourages readers to rethink contemporary news, arguing that rather than setting out from the assumption that news works either to inform or deceive its publics, we should explore the “post-public” social and political imaginaries emerging among today’s newsmakers and remaking the terms of their practice.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aSocialism _xPolitical aspects _zChina _y21st century.
650		0	_aJournalism _xPolitical aspects _zChina _y21st century.
650		0	_aChinese newspapers _y21st century.
650		0	_aMass media policy _zChina _y21st century.
650		0	_aMass media _xPolitical aspects _zChina _y21st century.
651		0	_aChina _xSocial policy _y21st century.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aMichigan Publishing (University of Michigan), _epublisher.
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/110991/
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