When business met politics: the case of Want Want, a different type of media capital in Taiwan

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When business met politics: the case of Want Want, a different type of media capital in Taiwan

Since 2008, the Taiwanese business group Want Want, having made a fortune in China, has returned to Taiwan to buy a major media group and attempt to exert political influence on Taiwanese society. This paper analyses the rise and rationale of this new type of media investor in the light of the busin...

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Main Authors:	Lin, Lihyun, Lee, Chun-Yi
Format:	Article
Published:	Centre d'étude français sur la Chine contemporaine 2017
Subjects:	Taiwanese business Taiwan media merger media monopoly cross-Strait relations government-business relations
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42808/

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