Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xii
5. Introduction 3
6. Chinese Television Dramas: An Overview 27
7. Corruption Dramas as a Mediated Space: CCTV, Intellectuals, and the Market 65
8. Censorship, Governance Crisis, and Moral Regulation 86
9. Anti-Corruption Melodrama and Competing Discourses 118
10. Cynicism as a Dominant Way of Seeing 159
11. Speaking of the “Desirable” Corrupt Official: A Case Study 184
12. Conclusion 209
13. Appendix: Selected Corruption Drama Titles 222
14. Notes 224
15. Bibliography 252
16. Index 268
17. Contemporary Chinese Studies 277