| Description |
xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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TransAsia: screen cultures
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TransAsia--screen cultures.
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| Summary |
This collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China. It is organised into four sections: 'Tradition, History, and Politics', 'Gender and Domestic Sphere', 'Production, Reception, and Distribution' and 'Co-productions and Pan-Asian Markets'. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Ying Zhu, Michael Keane, and Ruoyun Bai -- Yongzheng Dynasty and totalitarian nostalgia / Ying Zhu -- Family saga serial dramas and reinterpretation of cultural traditions / Janice Hua Xu -- "Clean officials," emotional moral community, and anti-corruption television dramas / Ruoyun Bai -- Global imaginary, local desire : Chinese transnational serial drama in the 1990s / Li Zeng -- Family matters : reconstructing the family on the Chinese television screen / Shuyu Kong -- Maids in the televisual city : competing tales of post-socialist modernity / Wanning Sun -- Pink dramas : reconciling consumer modernity and Confucian womanhood / Ya-chien Huang -- A brief history of Chinese situation comedies / Di Miao -- Carnivalesque pleasure : Audio-visual market and the consumption of television drama / Rong Cai -- From national preoccupation to overseas aspiration / Michael Keane -- A trip down memory lane : remaking and rereading the Red Classics / Gong Qian -- Looking for Taiwan's competitive edge : Production and circulation of Taiwanese TV drama / Yi-Hsiang Chen -- From the margins to the middle kingdom : Korean TV drama's role in linking local and transnational production / Dong-Hoo Lee -- Rescaling the local and the national : trans-border production of Hong Kong TV dramas in Mainland China / Carol Chow and Eric Ma. |
| Subject |
Television series -- China.
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Television series. |
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China. |
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Television programs -- China.
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Television programs. |
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Television broadcasting -- China.
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Television broadcasting. |
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Television -- Production and direction -- China.
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Television -- Production and direction. |
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Television plays -- Social aspects -- China.
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Television plays. |
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Social aspects. |
| Added Author |
Zhu, Ying, 1965- editor.
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Keane, Michael, 1952- editor.
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Bai, Ruoyun, Ph. D., editor.
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| Added Title |
Television drama in China |
| ISBN |
9789622099401 hardback |
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9622099408 hardback |
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9789622099418 paperback |
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9622099416 paperback |
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