LAURa de giorgi

Media e informazione pubblica nella transizione cinese

217

Gennaio-Aprile 2008

Anno LXXIII    n. 1

Summary - This contribution deals with the changes concerning media policy in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the reform era. Besides offering a short outline of journalism and media reform, the paper highlights the apparent contradictions in Chinese Communist Party’s media policy during the last years and it gives an assessment of their consequences on political control of information in the PRC. If marketization and decentration have increasingly weakened the CCP’s direct management of information, the author argues that the Party apparatus, at central and local level, has demonstrated a remarkable capacity to adapt its means of control to the new developments.