Chinese media studies: A belated introduction?

The past several years have seen the emergence of Chinese media studies as a subfield in communications and media studies worldwide, as an increasingly popular aspect of area and language-specific culture studies, and as a growing focus within Chinese research and teaching institutions in the People s Republic of China, Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region and Taiwan, as well-as in non-Chinese institutions. This collection of articles puts forward the claim that Chinese media studies has become a new 'proofoflife'for the necessary relationship between humanities and social sciences, broadly taken, and research and education in the media