Full Description
If radio and film were the emblematic media of the Maoist era, television has rapidly established itself as the medium of the "marketized" China and in the diaspora. In less than two decades, television has become the dominant medium across the Chinese cultural world. TV China is the first anthology in English on this phenomenon. Covering the People's Republic, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora, these 12 original essays introduce and analyze the Chinese television industry, its programming, the policies shaping it, and its audiences.
Contents
Contents
IntroductionYing Zhu and Chris Berry
Part 1. Institution
1. Toward Television Regionalization in Greater China and BeyondJoseph M. Chan
2. CCTV in the Reform Years: A New Model for China's Television?Junhao Hong, Yanmei Lü, and William Zou
3. Hong Kong Television: Same as It Ever Was?Karin Gwinn Wilkins
Part 2. Programming
4. Shanghai Television's Documentary Channel: Chinese Television as Public SpaceChris Berry
5. Made in Taiwan: An Analysis of Meteor Garden as an East Asian Idol DramaHsiu-Chuang Deppman
6. Ritual, Television, and State Ideology: Rereading CCTV's 2006 Spring Festival GalaXinyu Lu
Part 3. Reception
7. Mediation Journalism in Chinese Television: Double-Time Narrations of SARSHaiqing Yu
8. Building a Chinese "Middle Class": Consumer Education and Identity Construction in Television LandJanice Hua Xu
9. Chinese Television Audience ResearchTongdao Zhang
Part 4. Going Global
10. Hong Kong Television and the Making of New Diasporic ImaginariesAmy Lee
11. Globalizing Television: Chinese Satellite Television outside Greater ChinaCindy Hing-Yuk Wong
12. Transnational Circulation of Chinese-Language Television DramasYing Zhu
Appendix: Relevant Milestone Events in the Development of Chinese Television
List of Contributors
Index
