TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zhong,Xueping
TI  - Mainstream Culture Refocused: Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China 
SN  - 9780824834173
PB  - University of Hawai'i Press
KW  - Art / Popular Culture
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Arts
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - Serialized television drama (dianshiju), perhaps the most popular and influential cultural form in China, offers a wide, penetrating look at the tensions and contradictions of the post-revolutionary and pro-market period. Zhong Xueping's timely new work argues for recognizing the complexity of dianshiju's melodramatic mode and its various subgenres, in effect "refocusing" mainstream Chinese culture.    Mainstream Culture Refocused explores the manifestations, in dianshiju, of issues of history and tradition; the cultural and ideological issues surrounding the notion of youth; and how 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" that express nostalgia and uncertainty, mirroring the social contradictions of the reform era
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/1ceacf78-f695-4914-be02-6441f5d249b0
ER  -