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Informationen zum Autor By Huike Wen Klappentext Using theories of visual culture, media technology, globalization and gender studies supplemented by visual images and interviews. Huike Wen explores Chinese television history in the pivotal decade of the 1980s from the cultural studies viewpoint and explains the intellectual reception of television in China during the 1980s. During the 1980s, China embraced TV technology more quickly and enthusiastically than any other society. It's a story often told, but little understood, until now. Huike Wen shows how television played a pivotal role in the social and cultural transformations that took place during Deng Xiaoping's decade of the four modernizations. Inspired by Lynn Spigel, Wen recovers the texture of the times to vividly explain how China 'made room for TV.' -- Michael Curtin, Mellichamp Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara An interesting, enlightening, and thoughtful book on changes in China's TV programming as a mirror of the modern transformation and unprecedented evolution of the milliard people's society! -- Junhao Hong, Communication Professor of State University of New York at Buffalo and Associate in Research of Harvard University Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1: What Could You Do With a Television Set?: The Legitimization of TelevisionChapter 2: Jump Starting a Learning Process: The Ownership of TV Sets and Social StatusChapter 3: Documenting Nature: TV and the Representation of Nature in 1980s ChinaChapter 4: TV and the Other Modern Mass MediaChapter 5: Providing More Choices?: Domenstic and Imported TV Dreamas and Gender ConfusionEpilogue: Continuity, Importation, Creation and the Chinese TV Industry
