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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Note on Romanization and Chinese names -- Acknowledgements -- Epigraph -- 1 Introduction: National identity in the Chinese context -- Media and the making of a nation -- Multiethnic Chinese -- Cultural China: re-centring the PRC -- Civilizational China: the attraction of foreigners -- Notes -- References -- 2 Music-entertainment culture under the Chinese Communist Party -- Notes -- References |
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3 Overview of music-entertainment television in ChinaHistory of Chinese television -- The music-entertainment genre -- Music-entertainment programmes on CCTV -- Music-entertainment programmes on provincial satellite channels -- Music-entertainment programmes on city and county television -- Music-entertainment on foreign-owned TV stations in China -- Competition and collaboration in the music-entertainment industry -- Regulations affecting music-entertainment programming -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Multiethnic China |
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The orthodox style: a CCP-led multiethnic ChinaFifty-six colourful peripheries, one central red China -- Hand in hand, striding towards the future -- Yuanshengtai folk songs and authentic minority culture bearers -- The CCTV Youth Singing Competition -- Folk Songs China -- Ethno-pop stars: celebrating hybrid ethnic creativity -- Performing Uyghur-Chinese -- Performing Korean-Chinese -- Performing Han-Chinese -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 Greater China -- Global ethnic Chineseness and the re-centring of China |
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Celebrating the return of Hong KongFrom â#x80;#x98;My Chinese Heartâ#x80;#x99; to â#x80;#x98;My Chinese Dreamâ#x80;#x99;: Zhang Mingmin -- Hong Kong pop starsâ#x80;#x99; co-option of Chinese nationalism -- The Same Song in Hong Kong -- Celebrating Macauâ#x80;#x99;s return -- A child returning to her mother -- Happy in China â#x80;#x93; Charming Macau -- Celebrating cultural hybridity -- Imagining unification/unity with Taiwan -- Re-uniting separated brothers and sisters -- Taiwanese pop starsâ#x80;#x99; co-option of Chinese nationalism -- Embracing racial hybridity: Fei Xiang (Kris Phillips) |
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Performing solidarity with overseas ChineseThe Same Song overseas -- Overseas Chinese and the China Dream -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 Foreign identities -- Sinophiliac and foreignersâ#x80;#x99; obsessions with China -- Theme songs for Chinaâ#x80;#x99;s international events -- Rediscovering exotic China -- Marrying China -- Internationalizing China with stars from abroad -- Red and Black: African Star Hao Ge -- Red and White: Russian star Vitas -- Learning from the Korean Wave -- Cautious nostalgia with Japan -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References |
| Summary |
This book examines music entertainment programmes on China Central Television, China's only national level television network, as well as on nationally-available provincial channels, exploring how such programmes project a nuanced image of China's identity and position in the world. It shows how the images presented - primarily to domestic audiences - are in step with China's party-state nationalism, and at the same time flexible and open to change as China's circumstances change. The book contextualises identity construction in the media by examining the development of television in China and the political struggles between provincial and national television stations, as well as by foregrounding the historical and contemporary role of musical culture in China's nation-building project. It discusses the portrayal of the majority Han Chinese, and of ethnic minorities and their music, which, the author argues, are shown as fitting with the party-state rhetoric of 6 unitary multi-ethnic state". It also outlines how the Chinese of Greater China - Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao and the overseas Chinese - are incorporated into a mainland centred Chinese identity. In addition, it shows how the performances of foreign personalities on the Chinese television stage emphasise foreigners' attraction to China, the uniqueness of the Chinese nation and Chinese civilisation, and the revitalised role of China in the world. Overall, the book demonstrates how the variations of Chinese identity fit with prevailing political ideologies in China and with the emerging theme of a China-centred world |
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Zhong yang dian shi tai (Beijing, China)
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Zhong yang dian shi tai (Beijing, China) fast |
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Television broadcasting of music -- China
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Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- China
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Nationalism -- China
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Nationalism
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Television broadcasting of music
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Television broadcasting -- Social aspects
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China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315768885 |
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1315768887 |
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