Chinese Television in the Twenty-First Century - Entertaining the Nation

List of contents

Introduction Part I: Entertaining TV - A New Territory of Significance 1, Teaching People How to Live: Shenghuo Programs on Chinese Television 2. "The New Family Mediator": TV Mediation Programs in China’s "Harmonious Society" 3. The Long Commute: Mobile Television and the Seamless Social Part II: "Curbing Entertainment" 4. "Clean Up the Screen": Regulating Television Entertainment in the 2000’s 5. Rethinking Censorship in China—The Case of Snail House Part III: Commercial Television and the Reconfiguration of History, Memory, and Nationalism 6. Imagining the Other: Foreigners on the Chinese TV Screen 7. When Foreigners Perform the Chinese Nation: Televised Global Chinese Language Competitions 8. Make the Present Serve the Past: Restaging On Guard beneath the Neon Lights in Contemporary China 9. Remoulding Heroes: The Erasure of Class Discourse in the Red Classics Television Drama Adaptation 10. Tianxia Revisited: Family and Empire on the Television Screen

Product details

• Authors: Ruoyun Song Bai
• Assisted by: Ruoyun Bai (Editor), Bai Ruoyun (Editor), Geng Song (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2014
• EAN: 9780415745123
• ISBN: 978-0-415-74512-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; China, History, Popular Culture, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Humanities, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General