1 Yongzheng Dynasty and Totalitarian Nostalgia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors ix
4. Introduction 1
5. I Tradition, History, and Politics
6. 1 Yongzheng Dynasty and Totalitarian Nostalgia 21
7. 2 Family Saga Serial Dramas and Reinterpretation of Cultural Traditions 33
8. 3 “Clean Officials,” Emotional Moral Community, and Anti-corruption Television Dramas 47
9. 4 Global Imaginary, Local Desire: Chinese Transnational Serial Drama in the 1990s 61
10. II Gender and Domestic Sphere
11. 5 Family Matters: Reconstructing the Family on the Chinese Television Screen 75
12. 6 Maids in the Televisual City: Competing Tales of Post-Socialist Modernity 89
13. 7 Pink Dramas: Reconciling Consumer Modernity and Confucian Womanhood 103
14. III Production, Reception, and Distribution
15. 8 A Brief History of Chinese Situation Comedies 117
16. 9 Carnivalesque Pleasure: The Audio-visual Market and the Consumption of Television Drama 129
17. 10 From National Preoccupation to Overseas Aspiration 145
18. 11 A Trip Down Memory Lane: Remaking and Rereading the Red Classics 157
19. IV Co-productions and Pan-Asian Markets
20. 12 Looking for Taiwan’s Competitive Edge: The Production and Circulation of Taiwanese TV Drama 175
21. 13 From the Margins to the Middle Kingdom: Korean TV Drama’s Role in Linking Local and Transnational Production 187
22. 14 Rescaling the Local and the National: Trans-border Production of Hong Kong TV Dramas in Mainland China 201
23. Notes 217
24. References 251
25. Index 269