Media, Modernity And The Working Class The Main,

This article,by means of a discursive analysis of the workers' media such as Workers Daily and The Chinese Workers within 40 years,aims at a deep insight into the representation of subjectivity of the Chinese working class in the mass media since 1949 in a perspective of the political economy of communication,therefore the general estimation of the Chinese media publicity since the foundation of the PRC China and the discussion on the application of the bifurcated ways of writing in China will not be in the air.In Chapter 1,The Press and The Consensus on Subjectivity,I have described how the workers' press balanced the relationship among the state,the trade union and workers and helped to forge a homogeneous subject of the Chinese working class with one-body-two-side tasks from the state ideology.Chapter Media and the Political Expression wants to inform us of a gorgeous practice of consistency in the mass media of the Maoist Era,which represented the consistency of the CCP policies in the different projects of modernity,hence the proof of the concord of the paradoxical practices of reproduction with the internal historical paradox in the Chinese modernity,and the construction of the unique memory of cohort of the cultural revolution.Since the 1980s when the personal desire of pursuit of fortune has got the official permission,which meanwhile shows the varnishing of the political glory in Maoist era,Workers' Daily then began to modify the cleavage within the Chinese working class,using tactics of gender and consistency rhetorically and discursively,attempting to maintain a media scenery of the united Chinese working class without any contradictions and fighting! that's what has been discussed in Chapter 3 The Divergence of the State-Owned Media and the Documentary Media.The 1990s is not my focus of attention,but a clue has subsequently been found out that the connection of media reproduction,modernity and the forging of the Chinese working class from where we can see the ups and downs of subjectivity of the working class in the news or other products in the state-owned media,and even the publicity of those media.Undoubtedly,the once-glorious-in-the-Maoist-era working class has made their voices through the documentary media.This Article is not to write a history of the Chinese working class since 1949,but to probe how the subject and subjectivity of the working class that have become a valuable legacy of history and ideology not only to the state but to the cohort of workers in the Maoist era,who have no longer appeared in the mass media but have preserved their memory of cohort and expressed their loyalty to the state and the party through the documentary media,were and are represented in the mass media in the three successive historical period.