Xiaoling Zhang

Contact

• workRoom D6 International House
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work0115 84 66323
• fax0115 84 66324
• xiaoling.zhang@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Xiaoling Zhang's research interests span the transformation of media, culture and society in China. Taking interdisciplinary approaches, combining fieldwork, documentary studies and discourse analysis, she has published widely on the shifting cultural and media landscapes in China, especially the new media technologies. Her edited book together with Prof Yongnian Zheng, titled China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution: Social changes and state responses" by Routledge examines China's ICT revolution, exploring the social, cultural and political implications of China's transition to a more information-rich and communication-intensive society.

Having just completed a book project entitled 'The Transformation of Political Communication in China: from Propaganda to Hegemony', which investigates the different forces that have been interacting with and contributing to the transformation of political communication in China against the backdrop of a transforming and transitional China, Dr Zhang is now exploring how China promotes its "soft" power through its media and websites, and assessing its actual penetration and possible impact on the changing global information flow.

Dr Zhang is at the moment working with four PhD candidates, with two successful completions. She welcomes applications in the area of her research interest.

Expertise Summary

Media, culture and society in China; Television and Film studies; New media technologies; Chinese literature; Popular culture; Discourse analysis.

Research Summary

Media, culture and society in China; television and film studies; new media technologies, Chinese literature; popular culture, discourse analysis

Selected Publications

• ZHANG, X., 2011. The Transformation of Political Information in China: from propaganda to hegemony World Scientific.
• ZHANG, X., 2011. Mass Media in China. In: ZANG, X., ed., Understanding Chinese Society Routledge. 156-169
• ZHANG, X., 2008. Internationalization and Chinese TV Drama Export TV Studies. 2, 100-115 (In Press.)
• ZHANG, X., 2008. The Death of Heroes in China China Information: a Journal on Contemporary Chinese Studies. 22(1), 119-137

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• XIAOLING ZHANG and ZHENZHI GUO, 2012. Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony: the Politics of Dialects in TV Programs in China The Chinese Journal of Communication. (In Press.)
• ZHANG, X., 2011. Mass Media in China. In: ZANG, X., ed., Understanding Chinese Society Routledge. 156-169
• ZHANG, X., 2011. The Transformation of Political Information in China: from propaganda to hegemony World Scientific.
• ZHANG, X., 2011. From Totalitarianism to Hegemony: the reconfiguration of the party-state and the transformation of Chinese communication Journal of Contemporary China. 20(68), 103 - 115
• ZHANG, X., 2010. China’s International Broadcasting: The Case of CCTV International. In: WANG, J, ed., Soft Power in China: Public Diplomacy through Communication Palgrave Macmillan. 57 - 71
• ZHANG, X and ZHENG, Y, eds., 2009. China's Information and Communications Technology: Social changes and state responses Routledge.
• ZHANG, X., 2009. China as an Emerging Soft Power: winning hearts and minds through communicating with foreign publics? Global Media Journal. 4(June), 1-14
• ZHANG, X, 2009. 'From Propaganda to International Communication: China's promotion of Soft Power in the age of Information and Communication Technologies. In: ZHANG, X AND ZHENG, Y, ed., China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution: social changes and state responses Routledge. 103 - 121
• ZHANG, X., 2008. The Death of Heroes in China China Information: a Journal on Contemporary Chinese Studies. 22(1), 119-137
• ZHANG, X., 2008. Internationalization and Chinese TV Drama Export TV Studies. 2, 100-115 (In Press.)
• ZHANG, X., 2007. Breaking news, media coverage and ‘citizen’s right to know’ in China Journal of Contemporary China. 16(53), 535-545
• ZHANG, X., 2007. Seeking effective public space: Chinese media at the local level? China: an international journal. 5(1), 55-77
• ZHANG, XIAOLING, 2007. Globalisation of Chinese TV Drama: Challenges and Opportunities Critical Studies in Television: Scholarly Studies in Small Screen Fictions. 2(2), 31-46 (In Press.)
• ZHANG, X., 2006. Reading between the headlines: SARS, Focus and TV current affairs programmes in China Media, Culture & Society. 28(5), 715–737
• SONG, LINA, ZHANG, XIAOLING, 2006. The Entitled and the Un-entitled in China. In: CAI, F AND ZHANG, Z., ed., The Labour Market in Transitional China China Population Publishing House. 168 - 188
• ZHANG. XIAOLING, 2005. Language, Identity and Communication among Chinese in the UK the Journal of Overseas Chinese. 1(1), 110–120
• ZHANG, X., 2002. Them and us in Shanghai today International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 158, 141–161
• ZHANG, XIAOLING, 2002. Corpus, English Conversational Class, Chinese Context. In: TAN. M, ed., Corpus Studies in Language Education Thailand: IELE Press. 81-94
• ZHANG, X., 2001. A film director's criticism of reform China: a close reading of Zhang Yimou's <i>Not One Less</i> China Information: a Journal on Contemporary Chinese Studies. 15(2), 131-139
• SHI, X and ZHANG, XIAOLING, 2001. Into the Era of Interaction Chinese Television. 174(7), 28-32.