"As the United States and China increasingly come together, and while convergence is bringing together communication technologies, people, and platforms in new ways, it also raises key questions in terms of information flows, control, and regulation-and hence the future of US-Chinese relations. The case studies that comprise this book document the ongoing changes, challenges, and transformations within these processes, offering readers informative snapshots of how US-Chinese relations are changing on the ground, in the lived realities of daily communication habits"--.

• Contents
• Introduction: Communication Convergence and “the Core” for a New Era
• Part 1. Convergence and Fragmentation in the “New Era”
  • On the Paradox of Convergence and Fragmentation in the Age of Globalization-Stephen J. Hartnett, Zhengrong Hu, Qingwen Dong, Zhi Li, and Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge
  • Convergence and Fragmentation in the Umbrella Revolution: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Mainlandization of Hong Kong-Andrew Gilmore
  • Fragmentation and Convergence in the Construction of National Imaginaries in US and Chinese Documentaries-Zhi Li and Xi Wang
• Part 2. Communication and Crisis in the Age of Convergence
  • Dueling Narratives of Distrust, Hypocrisy, and Blame: The 2014 US–China Cyber Controversy-Michelle Murray Yang and Da Wang
  • Huawei and the 2019 Cybersecurity Crisis: Sino–US Conflict in the Age of Convergence-Jufei Wan and Bryan R. Reckard
  • Evolving Forms of Citizen Engagement in the Age of Convergence: The 2016 Baidu and Ctrip Crises as Case Studies in Critique, Trust, and Hope in Contemporary China-Jack Kangjie Liu and Dan Wang
• Part 3. Case Studies in the Changing Mediascape of China
  • Rebuilding in Unity: The 2015 Tianjin Explosions and Renewal Discourses in Chinese Social Media-Lisa B. Keränen and Yimeng Li
  • Code Switching and Language Games in Contemporary China; or, Convergence and Identity Construction on WeChat-Todd L. Sandel and Peimin Qiu
  • “Plowing Fortunes,” or Fine Wine with Chinese Characteristics: US and UK Media Representations of the Chinese Wine Industry-David R. Gruber
• Conclusion: US–China Communication and a New Type of Great Power Relations
• Acknowledgments
• About the Contributors
• Index