| Description |
1 online resource (201 pages) |
| Series |
Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series |
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Media, culture, and social change in Asia series.
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| Contents |
1. Chinese television drama as art, political discourse, and transnational capital -- 2. History as political discourse : dynastic and contemporary anti-corruption dramas -- 3. TV drama as political discourse II : marching towards the republic and the Great Emperor Hanwu -- 4. Dynasty drama and serial narrative -- 5. Chinese domestic theme dramas, Latin American telenovelas, and Korean trendy dramas -- 6. Transnational circulation of Chinese language television dramas -- 7. Building a harmonious society through television drama : towards a Chinese century? |
| Summary |
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 modernizat |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Television series -- China
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Television broadcasting -- China
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Television broadcasting
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Television series
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China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134094615 |
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1134094612 |
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