Essays about: "the General Administration for Press and Printing"

Found 1 essay containing the words the General Administration for Press and Printing.

  1. 1. Making space for reading : a study of rural reading rooms in Yunnan Province, PRC

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för ABM, digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap

    Author : Maria Ulrika Löfblad; [2017]
    Keywords : ALM; Library- and Information Studies; reading rooms; the People’s Republic of China; Yunnan Province; rural areas; New Socialist Countryside; development; grounded theory; the General Administration for Press and Printing; village politics; policy implementation; guerrilla fieldwork; governmentality; Michel Foucault; spatial planning.; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to explore the meanings behind rural reading rooms (tushushi) in Yunnan Province, PRC. Rural reading rooms are small libraries attached to the village Party compound in Chinese villages; for the past decade 600 000 reading rooms have been established in administrative villages in China, and now benefit more than 1 billion farmers in what is arguably the world’s most important developing nation. READ MORE