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By Huike Wen

Television and the Modernization perfect in Eighties China: spectacular the Eyes explores chinese language tv background within the pivotal decade of the Eighties and explains the highbrow reception of tv in China in this time. whereas the chinese language media has usually been a subject inside of stories of globalization and the worldwide political financial system, scholarly awareness to the heritage of chinese language tv calls for a extra large and demanding view of the interplay among tv and tradition. utilizing theories of media expertise, globalization, and gender reports supplemented via chinese language periodicals together with Life Out of eight Hours, Popular TV, Popular Cinema, Modern Family, and Chinese Advertising, in addition to oral background interviews, this booklet re-examines how Western know-how used to be brought to and embedded into chinese language tradition. Wen compares and analyzes tv dramas produced in China and imported from different international locations whereas analyzing the interplay among numerous ideologies of chinese language society and people of the foreign media. furthermore, she explores how the hybridity among Western tv tradition and chinese language traditions have been represented in renowned chinese language visible media, particularly the confusions and goals of modernization and the negotiation among culture and modernity, nationalism and internationalism, within the highbrow reception of tv in China.

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