Directions for Research on Communication and China: An Introductory and Overview Essay

Abstract

An essay is presented on Chinese media and communication research in the process of internationalization. It suggests that the research provides a more conducive basis for the transcendence of methodological nationalism and for posing structural and relational questions at the national, international, and transnational levels. The author contends that the research entails a critical self-reflexivity on the West itself, such as a form of engaged and self-reflective scholarship.