Contesting food safety in the Chinese media: Between hegemony and counter-hegemony

Guobin Yang (2013), Contesting Food Safety in the Chinese Media: Between Hegemony and Counter­ Hegemony. The China Quarterly, Available on CJO 2013 doi:10.1017/ S030574101300038

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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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Jacqueline Nivard (June 14, 2013). Contesting food safety in the Chinese media: Between hegemony and counter-hegemony. URBACHINA. Retrieved February 8, 2026 from https://doi.org/10.58079/v2gv


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