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Contesting Food Safety in the Chinese Media: Between Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2013

Guobin Yang
Guobin Yang*
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University of Pennsylvania. Email: gyang@asc.upenn.edu.
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Abstract

Food safety is a matter of intense contestation in the Chinese media. Through three case studies, this article shows that government and corporate elites strive to maintain media hegemony while citizen-consumers and activists engage in counter-hegemonic practices. Under conditions of hegemony, citizen dissent is most likely to take one of two forms: diffused contention or radical protest. Like the yin and yang of civic dissent, these two forms are both the results of, and responses to, state and corporate hegemony.

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mediaWeibointernetfood safetySanluChina

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Special Section on Dying for Development
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The China Quarterly , Volume 214 , June 2013 , pp. 337 - 355
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 2013 

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