Mainstream Culture Refocused: Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China

by Xueping Zhong

Serialized television drama (dianshiju), perhaps the most popular and influential cultural form in China over the past three decades, offers a wide and penetrating look at the tensions and contradictions of the post-revolutionary and pro-market period. Zhong Xueping's timely new work draws attention to the multiple cultural and historical legacies that coexist and challenge each other within this dominant form of story telling. Although scholars...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824834690
• ISBN13: 9780824834692
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"