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Chinese philosopher Feng Qi (1915–1995) believed that “the central issue of modern China is ‘where should China go?’” (Feng, 2015). To discuss this topic within the purview of moral values is an exercise in ideological change at the civics level. Since the Opium Wars, people have sought a sustainable path to enable social development. Currently, the marketization of the economy, democratization of politics, openness of social life, and legalization of many unofficial organizations have become prerequisite conditions for the media to know how to participate in the progress of modern society. In addition, the emergence of the Internet as a form of media is accelerating the process of social media development.
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When an exogenetic country begins its own modernization, the world has a modern “reality.” Their gap with this reality is so great, which makes the exogenous countries incapable of concentrating on solving one problem and then focus on solving another problem as the endogenous type of modernization does. After the exogenous type of modernization started, it will reveal the “cannot wait” features: because the “gap” happens at many places and many places are given the task of pursuing modernization. In this case, this kind of modernization often begins with a holistic sense, at least, from subjective motivation. Therefore, in this type of modernization, various aspects of modernization are often intertwined.
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Many people consider Weibo as the Chinese version of Twitter.
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Shao, P., Wang, Y. (2017). An Analysis of Moral Coercion in the Context of Media Socialization. In: Xue, K., Yu, M. (eds) New Media and Chinese Society. Communication, Culture and Change in Asia, vol 5. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6710-5_7
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