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International communication as a field of inquiry is, in fact, not very "internationalized." Rather, it has been taken as a conceptual extension or empirical application of U.S. communication, and much of the world outside the West has been socialized to adopt truncated versions of Pax Americana's notion of international communication. At stake is the "subject position" of academic and cultural inquirers: Who gets to ask what kind of questions? It is important to note that the quest to establish universally valid "laws" of human society with little regard for cultural values and variations seems to be running out of steam. Many lines of intellectual development are reckoning with the important dimensions of empathetic understanding and subjective consciousness. In Internationalizing "International Communication," Lee and others argue that we must reject both America-writ-large views of the world and self-defeating mirror images that reject anything American or Western on the grounds of cultural incompatibility or even cultural superiority. The point of departure for internationalizing "international communication" must be precisely the opposite of parochialism – namely, a spirit of cosmopolitanism. Scholars worldwide have a moral responsibility to foster global visions and mutual understanding, which forms, metaphorically, symphonic harmony made of cacophonic sounds.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Romanization -- PART ONE OVERVIEW -- 1 Ambiguities and Contradictions: Issues in China's Changing Political Communication -- PART TWO CONTROL, CHANGE, AND OPPOSITION -- 2 The Role of the Press in Post-Mao Political Struggles -- 3 The Use and Abuse of Mass Media by Chinese Leaders During the 1980s -- 4 China's Legitimacy Crisis: The Central Role of Information -- 5 Chinese Communist Ideology and Media Control -- 6 The Politics of Publicity in Reform China -- 7 Striving for Predictability: The Bureaucratization of Media Management in China -- The Oppositional Decoding of China's Leninist Media -- Press Control in "New China" and "Old China -- 10 Sparking a Fire: The Press and the Ferment of Democratic Change in Taiwan -- PART THREE IDEOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE, AND PROFESSIONALISM -- 11 The American Correspondent in China -- 12 The Historical Fate of "Objective Reporting" in China -- 13 Fighting Against the Odds: Hong Kong journalists in Transition -- 14 Frost on the Mirror: An American Understanding of China in the Cold War Era -- 15 Push and Pull: A Chinese-American Journalist's "Home Journeys -- 16 The Voice of America and China -- 17 U.S. Media Coverage of the Cultural Revolution: A Postscript -- About the Book -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index.

Hong Kong's handover has induced self-censorship among the press in order to curry favor with and avoid coercive pressure from China. Based on a comprehensive survey, this article shows that many journalists perceive their colleagues as being afraid to criticize China but think of themselves as being more courageous. Journalists from the party press are systematically different from those from the market-oriented press. However, market-driven "information newspapers" are moving toward apoliticization and toward accommodating the new sovereign, thus blurring their differences with market-driven "story newspapers."

Shows that many journalists perceive their colleagues as being afraid to criticize China but think of themselves as being more courageous, in light of retrocession from British to Chinese rule.