Civic Discourse, Civil Society, and Chinese Communities

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Randy Kluver, John H. Powers, ed.

ISBN: 1-56750-443-4

ISBN-13: 978-1-56750-443-9

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Praeger Publishers

Publication: 11/10/1999

List Price: $39.95 (UK Sterling Price: £27.95)

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IICD Outstanding Scholarship Award

Description: The purpose of this volume is to bring together a set of chapters that investigate the communication practices through which Chinese societies are creating their civil foundations for the next millennium. Civic Discourse, Civil Society, and Chinese Communities, reflects both the emphasis on analyzing specific discursive practices in particular Chinese societies and on understanding the role that discursive practices play in the development of civil society more generally.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction: Civic Discourse and Civil Society in Chinese Communities, John H. Powers and Randy Kluver
PART I-CIVIC DISCOURSE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
Elite-Based Discourse in Chinese Civil Society, Randy Kluver. Journalistic Memoirs of China: The Discourse of Foreign Reporters, John H. Powers
PART II-EMERGING PATTERNS OF DISCOURSE IN CHINESE CIVIL SOCIETIES
The Role of Rhetorical Topoi in Constructing the Social Fabric of Contemporary China, George Q. Xu
Freedom of Religion in China: The Emerging Civic Discourse, Brent Fulton
From Kaihui to Duihua: The Transformation of Chinese Civic Discourse, Wenshan Jia
Ineffability and Violence in Taiwan's Congress, Jensen Chung
Ideological Themes in Hong Kong's Public Service Announcements: Implications for China's Future, Lisa Cuklanz and Wendy Wong
PART III-MODES OF CIVIC DISCOURSE IN CHINESE
From Lei Feng to Zhang Haidi: Changing Media Images of Model Youth in the Post-Mao Reform Era, Mei Zhang
Televisual Discourse and the Mediation of Power: Living Room Dialogues with Modernity in Reform-Era China, William C. Godby
Literature as Civic Discourse in the Reform Era: Utopianism and Cynicism in Chinese Political Consciousness, Shiping Hua
Same Language, Yet Different: News Coverage of Clinton's China Visit by Two Prominent Newspapers, Mei Zhong
(Re)locating Our Voices in the Public Sphere: Call-in Talk Shows as a Channel for Civic Discourse in Taiwan, Rueyling Chuang and Ringo Ma
Kan Dashan as Civic Discourse in a Chinese Community, Shuming Lu
The Internet as a Mode of Civic Discourse: The Chinese Virtual Community in North America, Dejun Liu
PART IV-CIVIC DISCOURSE BETWEEN CHINA AND THE WORLD
The Pride of Zuguo: China's Perennial Appeal to the Overseas Chinese and an Emergent Civic Discourse in a Global Community, Dilin Liu and Canchu Lin
China's Rhetoric of Socialization in its International Civic Discourse, D. Ray Heisey
Civic Discourse with the International Community: China's Whitepapers on Human Rights, John H. Powers
Rhetorical Adaptability in China's Argument for Most Favored Nation Status, Heping Zhao
Civic Discourse in China-U.S. Relations: Great Leaps Forward and Backward, Mei-ling T. Wang
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors

About the Author: RANDY KLUVER is Associate Professor of Speech and Rhetoric and Director of the interdisciplinary Asian Studies Program at Oklahoma City University. His research focuses primarily on 20th century Asian political discourse and its cultural roots. He is also interested in global political, economic, and cultural trends, in an attempt to understand the world we will inhabit in the future.

JOHN H. POWERS is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, where he has been for the past eight years. Previous to his current position, he taught at Texas A&M University for 16 years. His research interests include communication theory and paradigm building, public discourse theory and criticism, and the role of language in routine communication practices. He is author of Public Speaking: The Lively Art (1994).


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