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      Television in Post-Reform China
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      Television in Post-Reform China

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      Serial Dramas, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market

      Television in Post-Reform China

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      Television in Post-Reform China book

      Serial Dramas, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market
      ByYing Zhu
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2008
      eBook Published 3 March 2008
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203930663
      Pages 200
      eBook ISBN 9780203930663
      Subjects Area Studies, Humanities
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      Zhu, Y. (2008). Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Dramas, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203930663

      ABSTRACT

      This book explores the political, economic, and cultural forces, locally and globally that have shaped the evolution of Chinese primetime television dramas, and the way that these dramas in turn have actively engaged in the major intellectual and policy debates concerning the path, steps, and speed of China’s economic and political modernization during the post-Deng Xiaoping era. It intertwines the evolution of Chinese television drama particularly with the ascendance of the Chinese New Left that favors a recentralization of state authority and an alternative path towards China’s modernization and China’s current administration’s call for building a "harmonious society." Two types of serial drama are highlighted in this regard, the politically provocative dynasty drama and the culturally ambiguous domestic drama. The book also provides cross-cultural comparisons that parallel the textual and institutional strategies of transnational Chinese language TV dramas with dramas from the three leading centers of transnational television production, the US, Brazil and Mexico in Latin America, and the Korean-led East Asia region. The comparison reveals creative connections while it also explores how the emergence of a Chinese cultural-linguistic market, together with other cultural-linguistic markets, complicates the power dynamics of global cultural flows.

       

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|21 pages

      Chinese television drama as art, political discourse, and transnational capital

      chapter 2|20 pages

      History as political discourse: Dynastic and contemporary anti-corruption dramas

      chapter 3|21 pages

      TV drama as political discourse II: Marching towards the Republic and the Great Emperor Hanwu

      chapter 4|18 pages

      Dynasty drama and serial narrative

      chapter 5|20 pages

      Chinese domestic theme dramas

      chapter 6|25 pages

      Transnational circulation of Chinese language television dramas

      chapter 7|17 pages

      Building a harmonious society through television drama: Towards a Chinese century?

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