Remaking Red Classics in Post-Mao China - Tv Drama As Popular Media

This book reveals how the story of revolution was reinvented to appeal and entertain a new generation and provides important clues to the understanding of transformation of class, gender and locality in contemporary China.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Revolution and TV Drama: The Uneasy Bedfellows in the Reform Era
Chapter 1: TV Dramas as Market Commodities, Cultural Artifacts and Social Practices
Chapter 2: Hybridising the Red Classics in Post-Mao China: The Production and Consumption Context
Chapter 3: From Chief to Chef: Remoulding Heroes
Chapter 4: Getting the Right Mix: Revolutionary Women and Contemporary Femininity
Chapter 5: Living Red: Production, Consumption and Local Memory of Revolutionary Culture in Linyi
Chapter 6 The Question of Faith in TV Drama Series
Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography

About the author

Qian Gong is a Lecturer at Curtin University and convenor of the Chinese major program, as well as publishing regularly on Chinese media and popular culture. She was a journalist for China's national newspaper China Daily before she joined academia.

Summary

This book reveals how the story of revolution was reinvented to appeal and entertain a new generation and provides important clues to the understanding of transformation of class, gender and locality in contemporary China.

Product details

• Authors: Qian Gong
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781786609250
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-925-0
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Media, Culture and Communication in Asia-Pacific Societies; Media, Culture and Communicati
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies