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Party-Market Corporatism, Clientelism, and Media in Shanghai

Chin-Chuan Lee

Department of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, chinchuan.lee@ cityu.edu.hk

Zhou He

enzhouhe{at}cityu.edu.hk

Yu Huang

s03033{at}hkbu.edu.hk

In seeking to explain why Shanghai, China's economic capital, has a more timid media system than its sibling cities, we examine the political economy of the Shanghai media from the perspective of clientelism in the post-Communist and cultural milieus of what we call "party-market corporatism." Through field work we analyze four aspects of clientelism, including media conglomeration, elite circulation, resource allocation, and (lack of) media professionalism.We conclude that Shanghai is at once a "big city" and yet a "small place:" a resource-rich city governed by one layer of power authority, hence the distance from the epicenter of power to various media organizations is so short and direct as to make media control through clientelism very effective and powerful. Clientelism represents one of the three major patterns of party-market corporatism in China's media sector.

Key Words: party-market corporatism • patron-client relationship • clientelism • media conglomeration • elite circulation • media professionalism • Chinese media • Shanghai media

The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Vol. 12, No. 3, 21-42 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1081180X07303216
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