Chapter Four. Beyond Romance: “Youth Drama,” Social Change, and the Postrevolution Search for Idealism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Mainstream Culture Refocused: Toward an Understanding of Chinese Television Drama 1
5. Chapter One. Looking through the Negatives: Filmic-Televisual Intertextuality and Ideological Renegotiations 28
6. Chapter Two. Re-collecting “History” on Television: “Emperor Dramas,” National Identity, and the Question of Historical Consciousness 47
7. Chapter Three. In Whose Name? “Anticorruption Dramas” and Their Ideological Implications 73
8. Chapter Four. Beyond Romance: “Youth Drama,” Social Change, and the Postrevolution Search for Idealism 97
9. Chapter Five. Also beyond Romance: Women, Desire, and the Ideology of Happiness in “Family-Marriage Drama” 123
10. Chapter Six. Listening to Popular Poetics: Watching Songs Composed for Television Dramas 144
11. Epilogue: Intellectuals, Mainstream Culture, and Social Transformation 162
12. Notes 165
13. Glossary 193
14. Filmography 197
15. Bibliography 201
16. Index 215