Compares news content in China Central Television's National Network News and "People's Daily" newspaper for a one-month period in 1992 with content from 15 years ago. Suggests that news in China provides Chinese society and people with the baseline knowledge needed for the building of a forced consensus, the basis of Communist rule, and…

Examines the relationship between mass media and social change by studying women's magazine fiction in China before and after implementation of the Four Modernizations Policies in the late 1970s. Focuses on the relationship between representations of women and the shifting ideological landscape from a feminist perspective. Notes that old…