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Mainstream Culture Refocused

Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China

By: Xueping Zhong

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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 tend to focus their attention on elite cultural trends and avant garde movements in literature and film, Zhong argues for recognizing the complexity of dianshiju’s melodramatic mode and its various subgenres, in effect "refocusing" mainstream Chinese culture. Mainstream Culture Refocused opens with an examination of television as a narrative motif in three contemporary Chinese art-house films. Zhong then turns her attention to dianshiju’s most important subgenres. "Emperor dramas" highlight the link between popular culture’s obsession with emperors and modern Chinese intellectuals’ preoccupation with issues of history and tradition and how they relate to modernity. In her exploration of the "anti-corruption" subgenre, Zhong considers three representative dramas, exploring their diverse plots and emphases. "Youth dramas’" rich array of representations reveal the numerous social, economic, cultural, and ideological issues surrounding the notion of youth and its changing meanings. The chapter on the "family-marriage" subgenre analyzes the ways in which women’s emotions are represented in relation to their desire for "happiness." Song lyrics from music composed for television dramas are considered as "popular poetics." Their sentiments range between nostalgia and uncertainty, mirroring the social contradictions of the reform era. The Epilogue returns to the relationship between intellectuals and the production of mainstream cultural meaning in the context of China’s post-revolutionary social, economic, and cultural transformation. Provocative and insightful, Mainstream Culture Refocused will appeal to scholars and students in studies of modern China generally and of contemporary Chinese media and popular culture specifically.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824882504

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9780824882501

Masculinity Besieged?

Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century

By: Xueping Zhong

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Masculinity Besieged?

Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century

By: Xueping Zhong

A feminist psychoanalytic account of changing conceptions of men and masculinity as seen in recent Chinese literature.

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Duke University Press

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0822324423

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9780822324423

Higher Education in China

By: Jianmin Gu,Xueping Li,Lihua Wang

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Higher Education in China

By: Jianmin Gu,Xueping Li,Lihua Wang

This book offers international readers a comprehensive introduction to higher education in China, and will help readers around the globe make sense of the huge and complex machinery that makes up the university and college sector in China today. It accompanies readers step by step, allowing them to understand the most important aspects of this sector in China – its history and development, its scope and structure, its operational system and management, and its enrollment and employment processes. It also provides an overview of the various levels of higher education in China, namely: specialized higher education, undergraduate education, postgraduate education, research and faculty. In short, the book will tell you what higher education in China is and how it works. While economic globalization and internationalization of higher education have greatly reduced the differences among educational systems in various countries, it cannot be denied that any given country’s higher education system needs to be deeply rooted in its culture and traditions. In this book, we highlight several distinctive characteristics of higher education in China, including: the ancient roots and modern history, massive scale, diversity, and centralized management and pragmatic trends.

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Springer

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9811308454

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9789811308451

Masculinity Besieged?

Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century

By: Xueping Zhong

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Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century

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A feminist psychoanalytic account of changing conceptions of men and masculinity as seen in recent Chinese literature.

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Duke University Press

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Mainstream Culture Refocused

Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China

By: Xueping Zhong

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Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824834690

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China and New Left Visions

Political and Cultural Interventions

By: Jie Lu,Ban Wang

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China and New Left Visions

Political and Cultural Interventions

By: Jie Lu,Ban Wang

Against the dire consequences of China’s market development, a new intellectual force of the New Left has come on the scene since the mid 1990s. New Left intellectuals debate the issues of social justice, distributive equality, markets, state intervention, the socialist legacy, and sustainable development. Against the neoliberal trends of free markets, liberal democracy, and consumerism, New Left critics launched a critique in hopes of seeking an alternative to global capitalism. This volume takes a comprehensive look at China’s New Left in intellectual, cultural, and literary manifestations. The writers place the New Left within a global anti-hegemonic movement and the legacy of the Cold War. They discover grassroots literature that portrays the plight and resilience of the downtrodden and disadvantaged. With historical visions the writers also shed light on the present by drawing on the socialist past.

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Lexington Books

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0739165186

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Mainstream Culture Refocused

Mainstream Culture Refocused

Masculinity Besieged?

Masculinity Besieged?

Higher Education in China

Higher Education in China

Masculinity Besieged?

Masculinity Besieged?

Mainstream Culture Refocused

Mainstream Culture Refocused

China and New Left Visions

China and New Left Visions

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