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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453627303321

Autore

Wen Huike <1977->

Titolo

Television and the modernization ideal in 1980s China : dazzling the eyes / / Huike Wen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4985-2523-7

0-7391-7887-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Disciplina

791.45095109/048

Soggetti

Television - Social aspects - China - History - 20th century

Television broadcasting - China - History - 20th century

Visual communication - Social aspects - China - History - 20th century

Mass media - Social aspects - China - History - 20th century

Social change - China - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

China Social conditions 1976-2000

China Intellectual life 1976-

China Civilization 1976-2002

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TELEVISION AND THE MODERNIZATION IDEAL IN 1980s CHINA; CONTENTS; Introduction; Chapter 1. What Could You Do with a Television Set?: The Legitimization of Television; Chapter 2. Jump Starting a Learning Process: The Ownership of TV Sets and Social Status; Chapter 3. Documenting Nature: TV and the Representation of Nature in 1980s China; Chapter 4. TV and the Other Modern Mass Media; Chapter 5. Providing More Choices?: Domenstic and Imported TV Dramas and Gender Confusion; Epilogue. Continuity, Importation, Creation and the Chinese TV Industry; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Using theories of visual culture, media technology, globalization and gender studies supplemented by visual images and interviews, the



book explores Chinese television history in the pivotal decade of the 1980s from the cultural studies viewpoint and explains the intellectual reception of television in China during the '80s.