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Ta Kung Pao is one of the most influential newspapers in modern China. The inaugural issue was published in Tianjing in 1912, and it was subsequently published in Shanghai, Hankou, Hong Kong, Guiling and Chongqing, followed by Hong Kong and Macao after 1949. The last mainland China issue of TKP was published in 1966. TKP has witnessed some of the key events in the creation of modern day China, including the Revolution of 1911 and the founding of the new republic. It was then designated by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPC as the government's official newspaper covering all international, political and economic news. Now available outside of China for the very first time, this insightful book is a detailed study of the evolution of the media in China, as seen through the history and the pages of TKP. It's a faithful documentation of China's political and economic modernisation. Rong Xinchun discloses for the very first time the stories behind the stories, and the paper's true status and function within China's foreign relations strategies. The coverage includes the author's dissections of the key articles, commentaries and editorials. These documents are important historical material for anybody studying the development of modern day China.

23 collected interviews with the renowned French philosopher and cultural commentator, Jean Baudrillard

This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful yet previously difficult-to-find interviews with Baudrillard, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity.

From familiar themes to the less well understood aspects of his thought, these interviews give you an overview of Baudrillard's ideas – without the jargon typical of written texts. Read as Baudrillard himself discusses, explains and elaborates on his ideas, making this collection essential for understanding many of his other works.
Key Features

The first book of collected interviews with Baudrillard for over two decades
Valuable to new and seasoned readers of Baudrillard and to students and academics in philosophy, sociology, literary theory, art history, architecture, film and photography, cultural studies, human geography and media studies
Gathers many unknown and otherwise unavailable pieces into one volume

List of Interviews

Interview 1: Too Bad about Patagonia

Interview 2: Disappearance beyond Disappearance

Interview 3: After Utopia: The Primitive Society of the Future

Interview 4: The Possibility of Another Game

Interview 5: Politics of Performance: Montand, Coluche = Le Pen?

Interview 6: A Time of Promiscuity

Interview 7: Forgetting Critiques

Interview 8: Cover Story

Interview 9: Symbolic Exchange: Taking Theory Seriously

Interview 11: Vivisecting the 90s

Interview 11: Things Surpass Themselves

Interview 12: On the New Technologies

Interview 13: I’m Not a Prophet

Interview 14: Endangered Species?

Interview 15: Hate: A Last Sign of Life

Interview 16: Europe, Globalisation and the Destiny of Culture

Interview 17: Between Difference and Singularity

Interview 18: The Catastrophe of Paradox

Interview 19: This is the Fourth World War

Interview 20: The Matrix Decoded

Interview 21: Continental Drift

Interview 22: The Art of Disappearing

Interview 23: The Antidote to the Global Lies in the Singular

El terremoto digital que comenzó a mediados de la última década del siglo XX tras el surgimiento de Internet, y que se extiende hasta hoy con la revolución de las redes sociales y los dispositivos móviles, erosiona tanto la relevancia social como la sustentabilidad económica de la industria de los medios de comunicación.

Acostumbrados por décadas a exitosos modelos industriales de producción y distribución de las noticias, con altos niveles de rentabilidad y confianza pública, los ejecutivos de las compañías de medios y los periodistas deben adaptarse ahora a nuevas formas de consumo propiciadas por la aceleración tecnológica.

La prensa de calidad necesita refundar sus modelos periodísticos, organizacionales y de negocio para atravesar con éxito la transición digital. Reconvertir el portfolio de productos, y principalmente la propuesta de valor social, junto a una transformación de la cultura y los perfiles profesionales, son imperativos de la época.

Los compiladores y autores de este libro, cada uno desde su campo profesional o académico, ofrecen miradas y reflexiones para comprender la naturaleza disruptiva de los cambios que enfrentan los medios de comunicación. En conjunto, construyen un plan de acción inmediato para el futuro sustentable de los medios.

Porque el momento es ahora.

Media companies are in the midst of fundamental transformation. For those reconfiguring their business models, consolidation into larger entities seems an obvious strategy for survival and there's growing pressure for a more relaxed approach to concentration of media ownership. Such industrial pragmatism, however, collides with the need for diversity of voice in a healthy democracy. Such tensions raise crucial questions about the nature and significance of different ownership regimes for journalism. It's important that we understand the trajectory of current policy thinking and explore alternative and more creative policy initiatives which might promote diversity without prejudicing business interests. Media Ownership, Journalism and Diversity analyses these issues within the UK using evidence gathered from personal interviews with senior policy makers and through analysis of evidence to a 2108 House of Lords select inquiry committee on news and media ownership, for which the author was specialist advisor. The material is set within a broader international context, and up through the period of the crises enveloping News Corp.