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Chinese Television in the Twenty-First Century - Entertaining the Nation (Hardcover)
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Chinese Television in the Twenty-First Century - Entertaining the Nation (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
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Television is arguably the most widely watched and most influential
medium in today's China. Roughly one billion Chinese have access to
television. Although television networks are still state-owned and
Party-controlled in China, the ideological landscape of television
programs has become increasingly diverse and even paradoxical,
simultaneously subservient and defiant, nationalistic and
cosmopolitan, moralistic and fun-loving, extravagant and mundane.
Studying Chinese television as a key node in the network of power
relationships, therefore, provides us with a unique opportunity to
understand the tension-fraught, paradox-permeated, and highly
unpredictable conditions of Chinese post-socialism. This book
argues for a rethinking of Chinese television and a
re-conceptualization of entertainment as a fluid landscape.
Specifically, the book addresses the following questions. How is
entertainment television politically and culturally significant in
the Chinese context? How have political, industrial and
technological changes in the 2000s affected the way Chinese
television relates to the state and society?How can we think of
media regulation and censorship without perpetuating the myth of a
self-serving authoritarian regime vs. a subdued cultural workforce?
What do popular televisual texts tell us about the unsettled and
reconfigured relations between commercial television, audiences and
the state? Last but not least, how does the fluidity of
entertainment-scape impact our thinking of several key concepts in
critical media and cultural studies - power, hegemony and ideology?
As an inter-discplinary study of the television industry this book
covers a number of important issues in China today, such as
censorship, nationalism, consumerism, social justice and the
central and local authorities. As such, it will appeal to a broad
audience in cluding students and scholars of media studies,
television studies, Chinese society and cultural studies.
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