Ying Zhu Bücher

The book offers an in-depth examination of China Central Television (CCTV), the powerful media conglomerate and official voice of the Chinese Communist Party, which reaches over 1.2 billion viewers worldwide. It highlights the significant role of CCTV in shaping public perception and discourse, particularly in the context of its influence on audiences outside China, including the United States. With insightful analysis, the author sheds light on the complexities of Chinese media and its impact on global communication.

The inside story of the U.S.-Chinese superpower conflict playing out behind the scenes of today's movie industry, from the leading media scholar In the last decade, China has become the world's largest movie market. Formerly objects of exotic fascination in the golden age of Hollywood, today the Chinese are a make-or-break audience for Hollywood's biggest blockbusters. And movies are now an essential part of China"s global "soft power" strategy: a Chinese real estate tycoon (who until recently was the major shareholder of the AMC theater chain) is building the world"s largest film production facility. Behind the curtains, as this brilliant new book reveals, movies have become one of the biggest areas of competition between the world's two remaining superpowers. Will Hollywood be eclipsed by a Chinese Huallywood? No author is better positioned to untangle this question than Ying Zhu, a leading expert on Chinese film and media. Hollywood in China unravels the fascinating, century-long relationship between Hollywood and China for the first time. Blending cultural history, business, and international relations, Hollywood in China offers an inside look at the intense business and political maneuvering that is shaping the movies and the U.S.-China relationships itself--revealing a headlines-grabbing conflict that is playing out not only on the high seas, but on the silver screen.

With reference to Paul Ricoeur’s conception of the interconnectedness of history and fiction, this comparative literary study examines narrative strategies that three contemporary writers of fiction – Toni Morrison, V. S. Naipaul, and Ben Okri – have devised to counteract the incompleteness of historical representation. In her novel Beloved Morrison redefines the slave-narrative tradition and reveals an alternative history of slavery by unveiling the interior lives of her characters. Through a hybrid prose that mixes fiction with history in the novels The Enigma of Arrival and A Way in the World , Naipaul illuminates «areas of darkness» in the diasporic world of East Indian Trinidadians and provides new ways of transforming English literary and cultural history. Focusing on West African identity and community, Okri brings a mythic and fantastic dimension to postcolonial fiction as a way of giving a voice to people who are generally without power and almost without any place in a world of inequality and injustice. Probing into historical incompleteness, this study underscores the indispensable role of fiction in representing life, rectifying history, and enlarging reality.

China's outward foreign direct investment, for which Australia is one of the largest destinations, has rapidly increased and become an important source of global capital. Nevertheless, Chinese investors have encountered many challenges in making their investment decisions and managing their foreign direct investments for sustainable development and profitability. Managing Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment focuses on the management of Chinese outward foreign direct investment, particularly foreign subsidiaries established through merger and acquisition, at the organisational level. Considering investment as a process, the book addresses complex managerial issues from strategic entry decisions to corporate sustainable development. Particular emphases have been placed on the post-acquisition integration and management such as liability of foreignness mitigation, post-acquisition integration, corporate control and governance, human resources and cross-cultural management, and corporate social responsibility. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Strategic entry considerations and their impact on investment performance in the Australian mining industry 3. How does liability of foreignness impact on the behaviour of Chinese MNCs? A case study of Sino Iron Project 4. Managing post-transaction integration by Chinese MNCs 5. Corporate governance in Chinese-controlled subsidiaries 6. Cross-cultural management and HRM 7. Corporate sustainable development: How and why Chinese invested firms engage community in the Australian mining industry? 8. Conclusion: On-going challenges for Chinese OFDI and MNCs operating abroad

The book explores the transformation of primetime TV dramas in contemporary China, particularly the rise of dynasty dramas since the late 1990s. It delves into the political, economic, and cultural influences that have shaped this genre, highlighting how these forces reflect broader societal changes. Through this examination, the text provides insights into the significance of television in China's evolving media landscape and its impact on public perception and cultural identity.

The book examines the significance of education in China, highlighting its impact on the economy and family dynamics influenced by the One Child Policy. It delves into teacher management systems, evaluating their effectiveness and revealing a predominant high performance work system. This system combines traditional paternalistic management with pragmatic approaches, significantly affecting teachers' roles and performance, as well as the overall quality of students' educational experiences.

This book argues that China¿s businesses, and hence China¿s future economic development, face a huge crisis in that there is a considerable "leadership gap" in China, with a shortage of competent business leaders, at a time when new leadership skills are required urgently, as China¿s businesses evolve rapidly and engage ever more with the global economy. Moreover, the book argues, training is an undervalued and often marginalised activity in Chinese companies. The book outlines the nature of this problem, and goes on to demonstrate that there is a new breed of manager emerging in China, aware of the need to upgrade management skills, moving away from skills appropriate in traditional industrial firms, and emphasising more flexibility, positive engagement with workers, and competence in the market economy. The book includes an evaluation of different management approaches in China, reports on extensive original research, including interviews with practising managers, and sets out how self-development in widespread, deep and important.