Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media (Rawnsley et al. 2025) - Weekend Book Review

English Podcast starts at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:14:10Hindi Podcast Starts at 00:37:02Chinese Podcast Starts at 00:52:12ReferenceRawnsley, M.-Y. T., Ma, Y., & Rawnsley, G. D. (2025). Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Chinese-Media/Rawnsley-Ma-Rawnsley/p/book/9781032423715‌Youtube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcherConnect on linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mayukhpsm/🎙️ Hey hey! Welcome back to Revise and Resubmit — your cozy corner for curious minds and caffeinated weekend thoughts. 💫 Today’s special episode of Weekend Book Review has me absolutely buzzing 📚 because we’re diving into a world that doesn’t just report stories… it creates them.Our spotlight this weekend? The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media (2nd Edition) — published in August 2025 by none other than Routledge. This isn’t just a book; it’s a panoramic lens on how China’s media breathes, beats, and battles across the networks of the twenty-first century. 🌏 From Hong Kong’s street stories to Taiwan’s democratic voices to the digital ripples of TikTok and WeChat, this book connects the dots of power, protest, and pixels.And let’s talk about the minds behind it — the phenomenal trio Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley, Yiben Ma, and Gary D. Rawnsley. 🧠 Their collective vision feels like a symphony of perspectives — scholarly yet soulful, analytical yet alive. Reading their work feels like stepping into a control room where every screen flickers with fragments of real, contemporary China.So grab your notebook, your tea, maybe even your curiosity hat, because by the end of this episode, you might just find yourself rethinking what “media” means in a world where every click shapes a nation’s narrative.Thank you to the editors and to Routledge for making such a bold and brilliant publication possible! 🌟Before we jump in, don’t forget to subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify and follow our YouTube home — Weekend Researcher. 🎧 We’re also live on Amazon Prime Music and Apple Podcast, so tune in wherever you love your weekend learning best.💭 Ready? Let’s turn the page and ask — when media becomes the mirror, whose reflection do we really see? 👀