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Author Liu, Jin, 1974 August-

Title Signifying the local : media productions rendered in local languages in mainland China in the new millennium / by Jin Liu.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series China studies ; v. 25
China studies ; v. 25.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary In Signifying the Local, Jin Liu examines contemporary cultural productions rendered in local languages and dialects (fangyan) in the fields of television, cinema, music, and literature in mainland China.
Contents Introduction -- A historical review of the discourse of the local in twentieth-century China -- An overview of television series productions in the 2000s -- Alternative translation: performativity in dubbing films in local languages -- Empowering local community: TV news talk shows in local languages -- Ambivalent laughter: comic sketches in CCTV's spring festival eve gala -- Popular music and local youth identity in the age of the Internet -- The rhetoric of local languages as the marginal: Chinese underground and independent films by Jia Zhangke and others -- Multiplicity in mainstream studio films in local languages -- The unassimilated voice in recent fiction in local languages -- Conclusion.
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Subject Mass media and language -- China.
Mass media and language.
China.
Local mass media -- China.
Local mass media.
Mass media and minorities -- China.
Mass media and minorities.
Communication and culture -- China.
Communication and culture.
China -- Languages.
Language and languages.
Chinese language -- Dialects.
Chinese language -- Dialects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
ISBN 9789004259027 (electronic book)
9004259023 (electronic book)
1299829783 (electronic book)
9781299829787 (electronic book)