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Guobin Yang (2013), Contesting Food Safety in the Chinese Media: Between Hegemony and Counter­ Hegemony. The China Quarterly, Available on CJO 2013 doi:10.1017/ S030574101300038Food safety is a matter of intense contestation in the Chinese media. Through three case studies, this article shows that government and corporate elites strive to maintain media hegemony while citizen-consumers and activists engage in counter-hegemonic practices. Under conditions of hegemony, citizen dissent is most likely to take one of two forms: diffused contention or radical protest. Like the yin and yang of civic dissent, these two forms are both the results of, and responses to, state and corporate hegemony.Full text available on line