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Dr Chenhao Ye

Dr Chenhao Ye

LSE Fellow

Department of Media and Communications

Email
c.ye3@lse.ac.uk
Room No
FAW 6.01I (AT)
Office Hours
Tuesday 10-11am, Thursday 10.30-11.30am (AT)
Languages
English, Mandarin
Key Expertise
political economy of communication, media policy and governance, China

About me

Dr Ye obtained his BA in journalism at Zhejiang University in China and completed his MA in Global Media and Communication with distinction at the University of Warwick, UK. He finished the PhD at the Department of Media and Communications at the LSE in December 2024. Following the critical political economy of communication tradition, Dr Ye’s doctoral research investigates the financialisation of China’s digital news industry in the historical context of China’s post-socialist transformations.

Expertise Details

political economy of communication; media policy and governance; media industries; China

Publications

Ye, Chenhao. (Forthcoming, 2025). The ‘Unsettling’ Political Economy of Communication in China: Reconfigurations of State Power and Financialization of Digital News Industries. In: The Sage Handbook of Chinese Digital Media and Communication, Xu, J., Guo, S., & Zhang, W. (eds). SAGE Publishing. 

Ye, Chenhao. (2023). Book Review: Trafficking Data: How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty by Aynne Kokas. The China Quarterly, 253, 259–261. doi:10.1017/S0305741022001886.

Ye, Chenhao. (2021). Book Review: Zoning China: Online Video, Popular Culture and the State by Luzhou Li. LSE Review of Books. https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/112112/

Research
Dr Ye’s research focuses on theorizing different patterns of state-capital nexus played out in the Chinese media system and beyond against the historical backdrop of financialised capitalist development. With China being the main empirical focus, he endeavors to advance intellectual debates on the role of the state and finance capital in reconfiguring media and communication industries in the context of transnational financial capitalism.

Teaching
Dr Ye convenes the course Global Media Industries (MC423) and contributes to team-taught postgraduate media and communication courses on theories and concepts (MC408), as well as Critical Approaches to Media, Communication and Development (MC421).

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