Remaking Red Classics in post-Mao China : TV drama as popular media /

"In the 1990s, China's economic reform campaign reached a new high. Amid the eager adoption of capitalism, however, the spectre of revolution re-emerged. Red Classics, a historic-revolutionary themed genre created in the high Socialist era were widely taken up again in television drama ada...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gong, Qian, 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
Series:Media, culture and communication in Asia-Pacific societies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: revolution and TV drama: the uneasy bedfellows in the Reform Era
  • TV dramas as market commodities, cultural artifacts and social practices
  • Hybridising the Red Classics in post-Mao China: the production and consumption context
  • From chief to chef: remoulding heroes
  • Getting the right mix: revolutionary women and contemporary feminity
  • Living Red: production, consumptin and local memory of Revolutionary culture in Linyi
  • The questions of faity in TV drama series
  • Conclusion.