Maria Repnikova is assistant professor in Global Communication at Georgia State University, a Wilson Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, and the author of the acclaimed book Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism. She was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. She speaks fluent Mandarin, Russian and Spanish. What follows is a lightly edited Q&A.
Maria RepnikovaIllustration by Kate Copeland
Q: You begin your terrific book Media Politics in China with a quote from Antonio Gramsci, that cultural hegemony is “not…domination by means of force,” but “the organization of consent.” Let’s start here. What does the Chinese Communist Party understand about how to organize consent?
A: Consent-building and cooptation has long been at the heart of CCP rule. We h
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