TV China

Introduction, by Ying Zhu and Chris Berry Part 1. Institution 1. Toward Television Regionalization in Greater China and Beyond, by Joseph Man Chan; 2. CCTV in the Reform Years: A New Model for China's Television? by Junhao Hong, Yanmei Li, and William Zou; 3. Hong Kong Television: Same as It Ever Was? by Karin Gwinn Wilkins Part 2. Programming 4. Shanghai Television's Documentary Channel: Chinese Television as Public Space, by Chris Berry; 5. Made in Taiwan: An Analysis of Meteor Garden as an East Asian Idol Drama, by Hsiu-Chuang Deppman; 6. Ritual, Television, and State Ideology: Rereading CCTV's 2006 Spring Festival Gala, by Xinyu Lu Part 3. Reception 7. Mediation Journalism in Chinese Television: Double-Time Narrations of SARS, by Haiqing Yu; 8. Building a Chinese "Middle Class": Consumer Education and Identity Construction in Television Land, by Janice Hua Xu; 9. Chinese Television Audience Research, by Tongdao Zhang Part 4. Going Global 10. Hong Kong Television and the Making of New Diasporic Imaginaries, by Amy Lee; 11. Globalizing Television: Chinese Satellite Televisions Outside Greater China, by Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong; 12. Transnational Circulation of Chinese Language Television Dramas, by Ying Zhu List of Contributors; Index

City University of New York, Staten Island

"Fills an important gap in both Chinese studies and media studies." NLisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz "There is nothing currently comparable in English, and quite possibly in any language." NJohn Downing, Southern Illinois University "TV China is a very welcome addition to the limited number of major works dedicated to this topic. To varying degrees and adopting diverse approaches, individual contributors have updated and expanded our current knowledge of Chinese television...the 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 the field, and students and researchers of Chinese media, culture and society, as well as television studies academics in general, should find the book a very useful reference." Wanning Sun, The China Quarterly, Sept 2009