Chinese Communication Research Articles

Стратагемность как культурный феномен и специфика китайской деловой культуры

The current article refers to a problem of stratagems in Chinese business
 culture. Nowadays study and development of world’s business cultures is
 one of the key moments of understanding the value of cultural phenomenon
 of modernity. The development and ability of drafting sly and skillful plans,
 tricks, logical traps ect., that must bring the interlocutor to a standstill. It is a
 characteristic feature of Chinese business communication.

Transparency and Opaqueness in the Chinese ICT Sector: A Critique of Chinese and International Corporate Governance Norms

This paper critiques the current Chinese corporate governance framework and the OECD Corporate Governance Principles on which the Chinese framework is largely based through detailed analysis of public disclosures by four prominent Chinese internet and communications technology (ICT) firms. These include State-controlled firms (China Telecom & China Mobile), mixed ownership (ZTE), and privately-controlled firms (Huawei Technologies). The paper argues that neither Chinese nor international corporate governance norms deal adequately with the complex group structures that are so common among large Chinese firms. It also reveals deficiencies in the rules on independent directors, supervisory committees, and Chinese Communist Party committees as they are applied by Chinese ICT firms. The paper concludes with reform proposals that would provide more useful information and better protection to outside investors and public stakeholders in the unique Chinese corporate environment.

Impacts of the WTO accession on Chinese exports

Using firm-level panel data of the Chinese electrical machinery and communication equipment manufacturers, this paper reveals that, after the entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO, henceforth), the export of Chinese firms was accelerated by a rise of productivity, but was not uniform among ownership structures. Classifying the firms into private domestic firms, state-owned enterprises, and foreign-invested enterprises, our empirical estimation concludes that the entry into the WTO had a ‘productivity effect’ on Chinese exports, and an asymmetric ‘ownership effect,’ which was less favorable to the exports for state-owned enterprises.

Mediatisation of Chinese corporate communication

The mediatisation of corporate communication transforms corporate negotiations of public companies from representative democracy to deliberative democracy, whereas the public seems to own individual access to a bountiful supply of information regarding corporate changes. However, it is unavoidable that managers become the privileged gatekeepers of media re-articulations; they orchestrate the deliberative process by selecting and construing information for public reception. Such situational complexity creates a tension in managers’ engagement with the public between the need of communicative interaction informing the public and the pursuit of strategic interaction mobilising public opinion for self-interests. Drawing on previous discursive studies of the mediatisation of corporate communication (Vaara & Tienari, 2002) and the theoretical underpinnings of critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 1992; Wodak & Meyer, 2001), this article examines how the mixing of the two types of interactions are linguistically realised in media texts produced by Chinese managers. Particular attention is paid to the strategic use of narrative structures (Labov & Waletzky, 1997), textual simplification (Bhatia, 1983, 2008), and cultural keywords (Williams, 1976/1983).

Music Confucius Institute: Evaluating Its Approach as an Agent for International Chinese Music Dissemination

<p>The paper identifies the educational and presentational functions of the Confucius Institute (MCI) at the Royal Danish Academy of Music (RDAM) as its core approaches which mostly influence Chinese cultural dissemination in its host country. The MCI’s utilization of the two dissemination approaches aligns with the “receiver-centered” framework introduced by Jiang and Zhang (2009), providing three concurrent strategies—Localization, “Entertainalization” and Regulation (LER)—in order to enhance the dissemination of Chinese culture to the general public. Through detailed analysis of somewhat limited pre-existing research findings and literature, this article makes the claim that the MCI has achieved positive results in its two functional domains, meeting its overseas audience’s needs at various levels whilst supporting Chinese cultural dissemination internationally. This article concludes on the prospect that more MCIs are expected to be established around the world in order to satisfy the growing needs of authentic studies in Chinese musical traditions without travelling to China, as well as to support Chinese cultural communication with the rest of the world.</p>

Speech Etiquette in the Russian and Chinese Linguistic Communicative Cultures

This article is devoted to the solution of an important problem of the language - the study of the functions of speech etiquette in the Russian and Chinese linguistic world-images. Language is a part of culture. Culture includes the regulatory elements such as ideals, moral norms, traditions, customs, etc. Together they constitute social norms of behavior, compliance with which is an essential condition for saving the society as an integrated whole. The purpose of the study is to reveal the linguistic peculiarities of speech etiquette in the Russian and Chinese linguistic world-images. The speech etiquette in different communicative cultures is a subject of the study. In accordance with the purpose and subject of the study, we set the following tasks: • To define the content of speech etiquette in linguistic world-images. • To identify the national and cultural identity of speech etiquette in the Russian and Chinese communication cultures. In the course of the study, we used both empirical and theoretical methods of research. The first group included primarily the methods of the source and text studying, classification and the results analysis. The second group included the analysis method, aimed at investigating the overall dynamics of the subject, the system analysis method, enabling to consider the development and structure of the subject in their relationship by the results of the questioning.

Aesthetics of queer becoming: Comrade Yue and Chinese community-based documentaries online

ABSTRACT While many studies explore how digital technology influenced the production and consumption of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media in the Euro-American context, few have focused on LGBT media in China despite its significant growth. Intersecting LGBT media studies with studies on Chinese communication technologies, this paper looks at videos made in community-based documentary workshops, including the Queer University (kuer daxue) Digital Filmmaking Training Camp. Many of the videos are articulations and reinventions of multiple selves enacted through the construction of image and sound. Against the backdrop of neoliberalized governance of selfhood, this new wave of community-based queer documentaries, exemplified by Comrade Yue (2013), embodies the “aesthetics of queer becoming.” Specifically, the expressive personal histories in these videos contest the “authentic” homosexual subjects that function as objects of knowledge in mainstream media. The bodily corporality on screen and the intimacy of the video apparatus operate as an interrogation of identity that intervenes in the ongoing discursive debate between the biological determinist and socially constructed views on homosexuality. Furthermore, video-making itself becomes an act of coming out through confessional or performative modes of sound–image relationships. Video is a vital medium to work through and within the process of identification and community formation. The medium of the video, with its capacity for dissemination online, functions as a unique format that gives rise to a new set of queer aesthetics and politics through first-person audio-visual constructions.

Action research on the development of Chinese communication in a virtual community

This study was designed to determine if language acquisition can occur in a virtual situation in the absence of explicit instruction. After spending 1 year establishing a virtual community, the authors observed and analyzed interpersonal interactions and the development of Chinese communication competence, communication models, and interaction frequency. The results revealed that (1) language acquisition can be improved autonomously in a virtual situation; (2) communication competence occurs in a loop of processes that include receiving, exploring, dialogue, assimilation, adaptation, asking questions, problem solving, and conversation; (3) social interactions and a friendly environment are the most crucial factors in a virtual community; (4) community consensus, individual motivation, individual personalities, speaking behaviors, language competence, and leading techniques affect how individuals develop communication competence.

Speech Etiquette in the Russian and Chinese Linguistic Communicative Cultures

This article is devoted to the solution of an important problem of the language - the study of the functions of speech etiquette in the Russian and Chinese linguistic world-images. Language is a part of culture. Culture includes the regulatory elements such as ideals, moral norms, traditions, customs, etc. Together they constitute social norms of behavior, compliance with which is an essential condition for saving the society as an integrated whole. The purpose of the study is to reveal the linguistic peculiarities of speech etiquette in the Russian and Chinese linguistic world-images. The speech etiquette in different communicative cultures is a subject of the study. In accordance with the purpose and subject of the study, we set the following tasks: • To define the content of speech etiquette in linguistic world-images. • To identify the national and cultural identity of speech etiquette in the Russian and Chinese communication cultures. In the course of the study, we used both empirical and theoretical methods of research. The first group included primarily the methods of the source and text studying, classification and the results analysis. The second group included the analysis method, aimed at investigating the overall dynamics of the subject, the system analysis method, enabling to consider the development and structure of the subject in their relationship by the results of the questioning.

An Indigenous Innovation: An Example from Mobile Communication Technology

This paper explores the processes of indigenous (global South) innovation, particularly of the “high-tech” and “radical” kind, which have spurred technological catch-up, using the example of a third-generation (3G) Chinese mobile communications technology standard. Three hypotheses were generated from this study: (a) modularity-in-design opens new windows of opportunity for technological catching-up; (b) the lack of essential intellectual property rights acts as a key inducement, or a factor-saving bias, that influences the rate and direction of indigenous innovation in the global South; and (c) the long tail of an old technology affects the take-off of a new indigenous innovation, essentially by shortening the technological distance to be covered.

한국어와 중국어의 인터넷 의성의태어 비교

한국어와 중국어의 인터넷 의성의태어 비교

A research on service quality decision-making of Chinese communications industry based on quantum game

In recent years, Chinese service industry is developing rapidly. Compared with developed countries, service quality should be the bottleneck for Chinese service industry. On the background of three major telecommunications service providers in China, the functions of customer perceived utilities are established. With the goal of consumer’s perceived utility maximization, the classic Nash equilibrium solution and quantum equilibrium solution are obtained. Then a numerical example is studied and the changing trend of service quality and customer perceived utility is further analyzed by the influence of the entanglement operator. Finally, it is proved that quantum game solution is better than Nash equilibrium solution.

Mixed-market and crisis mitigation: lessons from the performance of China’s ICT industry before and after the 2008 crisis

Studies of global production networks have made great strides in understanding the dominant organizations of global production but so far have only offered limited insights on mitigating risks inherited by being a part of such networks under the condition of crises in the world’s wealthiest regions. Drawing from the literature of regional resilience, this paper examines the performance of Chinese Information Communication Technology firms before and after the financial crisis of 2008 with the aim to identify differentiated impacts and the firms’ and region's ability to deal with shocks under the crisis conditions. The research looks into how market portfolios and technological levels affect firm performance based on primary data from two large-scale firm-level surveys conducted before and after the 2008 financial crisis. I found that while the 2008 crisis primarily affected demands outside China, its impacts did not stop at firms or regions specializing in export. Domestic market-oriented firms also suffered from the shock, and mixed-market firms performed the best during the crisis. Technological levels did not have a clear impact on firm performance during the crisis. While the two surveys cover only a short time horizon, the comparison highlights the entrenched nature of the production networks and underscores the importance of creating and maintaining structural diversity and multiple market relations to survive the new “normal” of the volatile globalized industry.

Aphasia in Taishan Culture Worldwide Communication

Aphasia will occur in cultural communication with no exception of Taishan culture to the world. This article analyses the cultural aphasia from aspects of communication, discusses the reasons and proposes the solutions which is a tentative study to Chinese traditional culture communication.

An Analysis on Chinese Communication Competence Evaluating of Korean College Scholastic Ability Test

An Analysis on Chinese Communication Competence Evaluating of Korean College Scholastic Ability Test

Research on the Application of Network Technology in Literature Creation

In 1980s and 1990s, with the rapid development of the "fourth media" of the Internet, a new literary form is accompanied by the generation of the internet. It is the "network literature." Today, the network has gone through decades of literature, literary garbage from the original to today's market legend, generate network literature and creative literary works for the development of a new model provides an unprecedented. Review network literature development process, we have to admit that the great network technology used in modern Chinese literature and transmission. How to guide the development of network technology and application in modern Chinese literary creation and dissemination, and for the prosperity of cultural undertakings to promote the harmonious development of society will play a positive role. To solve these problems, from the perspective of vector-borne departure of network technology, this article consider the creation and dissemination of modern Chinese literature to conduct a comprehensive sort, and to the existence of network technology in modern Chinese literature and communication problems, present their views and solutions.

Between corporate development and public service: the cultural system reform in the Chinese media sector

If the cultural system reform in the 1980s and 1990s was peripheral and sluggish, in the 21st century it has become a central part of China’s unswerving reform and noticeably gained velocity after 2008. Aiming to build up a cultural market economy, the reform is transforming the majority of cultural institutions into state-owned and even state-controlled shareholding corporations, while strengthening the public service obligation of state financing in a few non-profitable areas. By chronicling and contextualizing reform efforts, this article not only documents some major lines of market development but also examines why and how the state is realigning its public and corporate sectors in such a particular mode of synthesis, especially in two leading media sectors: film and TV broadcasting. While Chinese communication scholars have documented how the overlap between the state and market forces creates dominant cultural processes in China, focusing on the state’s straightforward efforts at commercialization, this article offers an updated understanding of verifiable policy and institutional changes—especially the ‘de-commercialization’ movement embodied by the return of public units.

Computer Simulation Analysis on Feature Extraction of High Speed Signal Based on Bayesian Algorithm

The discipline of journalism needs to gradually transform perspective. It combines with the characteristics of academic discourse of news communication to build a strong Chinese characteristically academic discourse system of news, so as to make a positive contribution to the development of Chinese journalism discipline. First, we analyze the general compensation model on the basis of compensation algorithm. Based on more compensation formulas, we analyze the principle of compensation. According to the basic requirements of the news communication and the unique function of Chinese characteristically academic discourse, with the basic requirements of the unique characteristics of academic discourse for news communication and Chinese characteristics, and combined with the relative reliability features extraction method of information builds academic discourse system of Chinese characteristics news communication based on Bayesian algorithm. We apply the computer to make simulation analysis on the effect of different classes' weighting factors on the system structure. The results show that the system structure has a high efficiency, good stability, and strong practicability, which has provided theoretical and technical support for the research in this field to a certain extent.

The Privilege of Speech and New Media: Conceptualizing China's Communications Law in the Internet Era

Even though Article 35 of the Chinese Constitution theoretically guarantees the freedom of speech and of the press, it is a well-known fact that in reality, speech in China can be very costly indeed. In the massive body of laws and regulations promulgated in the area of culture after 1979, there are ample provisions imposing severe punishment for many speech or press-related activities, while few provisions protect expression against State. The majority of rules governing expression only permit specific actors to engage in specific activities within a specific scope, on a conditional basis. In other words, Chinese communications law aims to harness particular forms of speech in order to pursue specific objectives, and delegitimize other forms. Speech, therefore, is not a right but a privilege; it is not an entitlement granted on the basis of equality before the law and pluralist philosophy, but a power granted on the basis of particularity and monism. Until recently, this structure was buttressed a regulatory model that fragmented communication flows in an environment with a relatively small and manageable number of players. The advent of the Internet has upset this pattern. Now, the Party is confronted with the fact that hundreds of millions of individual citizens have gained easy access to tools of communication that allow them to publish information and organize in ways that had been nearly impossible earlier. This has fuelled a wave of new legislation, regulation and institution-building at different levels and across different sectors, aimed at imposing new means of control, against the background of continued political imperatives of stability and development, in order to preserve the privileged speech model.This paper surveys and conceptualises these legal evolutions in the light of evolving political, social and technological contexts. First, it provides a brief outline of Chinese media regulation as it had been constructed in the Nineties, and develops the concept of privileged speech. Second, it maps and analyses the different initiatives that have been taken by the Party leadership with regards to Internet communication, against the background of technological, commercial and social evolutions that changed the political imperatives that form the context for Party leadership. Third, it outlines how recent evolutions in the pattern of communications regulations are connected with broader questions of political reform in China.

On location: reflections on fieldwork in Chinese journalism studies

Research access to mainland China, once severely circumscribed, has expanded tremendously during the post-Mao reform period, with important implications for the study of Chinese mass communication. Fieldwork possibilities mean that scholars are privy to a great deal more of the media circuit – not only to voluminous content that can be systematically sampled, but also to structures, contexts, practices, processes, places, and people involved in production and reception. Drawing on experiences in the field, this article discusses challenges and rewards of studying Chinese journalism from within.