This book explores the political, economic, and cultural forces,
locally and globally that have shaped the evolution of Chinese
primetime television dramas, and the way that these dramas in turn
have actively engaged in the major intellectual and policy debates
concerning the path, steps, and speed of China s economic and
political modernization during the post-Deng Xiaoping era. It
intertwines the evolution of Chinese television drama particularly
with the ascendance of the Chinese New Left that favors a
recentralization of state authority and an alternative path towards
China s modernization and China s current administration s call for
building a "harmonious society." Two types of serial drama are
highlighted in this regard, the politically provocative dynasty
drama and the culturally ambiguous domestic drama. The book also
provides cross-cultural comparisons that parallel the textual and
institutional strategies of transnational Chinese language TV
dramas with dramas from the three leading centers of transnational
television production, the US, Brazil and Mexico in Latin America,
and the Korean-led East Asia region. The comparison reveals
creative connections while it also explores how the emergence of a
Chinese cultural-linguistic market, together with other
cultural-linguistic markets, complicates the power dynamics of
global cultural flows.
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