An outstanding reference point for what we want to know about China’s communication system. To be sure, the book is about much more than communication. In fact, it embraces most of the complex issues and forces involved in China’s political, economic, and social modernization. . . . To China scholars and students, I say put this book on your list of the top 25 books on contemporary China. It is a superb study based on solid research and strong analysis.

Literary Review Of Canada

Packed with information and insights about the Chinese media system. . . . An eye-opening account.

Global Media Journal

Zhao's nuanced and powerful analysis informs why liberal democracy will not triumphant and why China will not turn back its clock and embrace absolute public ownership.

Journal of Chinese Political Science

Impeccably researched. . . . A nuanced and generally easy-to-read book.

Louise Merrington, The China Journal

Particularly insightful, important, and applicable across the disciplinary perspectives from which scholars study contemporary China. Communication in China's final chapter provides a kind of recapitulation of Chinese intellectual fractiousness—and for this reason alone, the entire book is a must-read for scholars. For teaching advanced undergraduates and graduate students, however, the case study chapters could serve as engrossing readings for contemporary China classes or international and comparative mass communication courses.

Journal of Asian Studies

A case could easily be made that Yuezhi Zhao's Communication in China: Political Economy, Power, and Conflict is the best book to appear on media, telecommunication, and the Internet in China since the mid-1990s, when Zhao began her career as a scholar and her rapid ascent to the top ranks of specialists on China's communication system. . . . Zhao's vignette filled, beautifully written prose combines with the information richness of Communication in China to make the book a genuine page-turner: enjoyable to read and highly satisfying intellectually. Not only communication scholars, but political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists—everyone, in fact, working on contemporary China—will want to read this book.

Pacific Affairs