Chinese Television in the Twenty-First Century - 9781138091979

Taylor & Francis

Introduction Part I: Entertaining TV - A New Territory of Significance 1, Teaching People How to Live: Shenghuo Programs on Chinese Television 2. \""The New Family Mediator\"": TV Mediation Programs in China\u2019s \""Harmonious Society\"" 3. The Long Commute: Mobile Television and the Seamless Social Part II: \""Curbing Entertainment\"" 4. \""Clean Up the Screen\"": Regulating Television Entertainment in the 2000\u2019s 5. Rethinking Censorship in China\u2014The Case of Snail House Part III: Commercial Television and the Reconfiguration of History, Memory, and Nationalism 6. Imagining the Other: Foreigners on the Chinese TV Screen 7. When Foreigners Perform the Chinese Nation: Televised Global Chinese Language Competitions 8. Make the Present Serve the Past: Restaging On Guard beneath the Neon Lights in Contemporary China 9. Remoulding Heroes: The Erasure of Class Discourse in the Red Classics Television Drama Adaptation 10. Tianxia Revisited: Family and Empire on the Television Screen