Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics
Awards:   Long-listed for ICAS Book Prize, International Convention of Asia Scholars 2015
Author:   Ruoyun Bai
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:  

9780774826310


Pages:   292
Publication Date:   19 September 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics


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  • Long-listed for ICAS Book Prize, International Convention of Asia Scholars 2015

Overview

In late 1995, the drama Heaven Above (Cangtian zaishang) debuted on Chinese TV. Featuring a villainous high-ranking government official, it was the first in a series of wildly popular corruption dramas that riveted the nation. In Staging Corruption, Ruoyun Bai looks at the rise, fall, and reincarnation of these dramas and the ways in which they express the collective dreams and nightmares of China in the market-reform era. She also considers how these dramas – as products of the interplay between television stations, production companies, media regulation, and political censorship – unveil complicated relationships between power, media, and society. Her book will be essential reading for those following China's ongoing struggles with the highly volatile issue of political and social nepotism.

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Author:   Ruoyun Bai
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9780774826310


ISBN 10:   0774826312
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   19 September 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Chinese Television Dramas: An Overview 2 Corruption Dramas as a Mediated Space: CCTV, Intellectuals, and the Market 3 Censorship, Governance Crisis, and Moral Regulation 4 Anti-Corruption Melodrama and Competing Discourses 5 Cynicism as a Dominant Way of Seeing 6 Speaking of the Desirable Corrupt Official: A Case Study Conclusion Appendix: Selected Corruption Drama Titles; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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Ruoyun Bai is an assistant professor of media studies and comparative literature at the University of Toronto.

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