TV China [Paperback]

If radio and film were the emblematic media of the Maoist era, television has rapidly established itself as the medium of the marketized China and in the diaspora. In less than two decades, television has become the dominant medium across the Chinese cultural world.TV Chinais the first anthology in English on this phenomenon. Covering the People's Republic, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora, these 12 original essays introduce and analyze the Chinese television industry, its programming, the policies shaping it, and its audiences.

Zhu (CUNY, Staten Island) and Berry (Goldsmiths College, Univ. of London, UK) pull together 12 disparate papers on television in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the diaspora. Offering broad perspectives on television practice, circulation, and consumption, the book is structured around four large issues: institutional factors, e.g., political economics, government policy and censorship, trade protection, and corporate policy; programming, especially Shanghai's Documentary Channel, a Taiwanese drama serial, and a popular New Year's Eve variety show; reception, including cultural impacts and viewership patterns; and globalism. The book's content certainly helps to fill in cracks and crannies of Chinese television studies, for which readers will be thankful. . . -CHOICE

TV institutions, programming, and audiences in Greater China and the Chinese diaspora

Ying Zhu is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies in the Department of Media Culture, City University of New York, Staten Island.

Chris Berry is Professor of Film and Television Studies in the Department of Media and Communication at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

[This] volume has succeeded in filling a number of gaps, most notably in bringing together within one volume various approaches to the study of Chinese television as a cultural phenomenon that is at once national, transnational, and diasporic. It is a welcome addition to lÇ