Remaking Red Classics in Post-Mao China
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Chinese Cultural Studies
Chinese History
Chinese Literature
Chinese Media
Chinese Politics
Chinese Popular Culture
Cultural Heritage
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Television Studies
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- ISBN 9781538153277
- Weight: 313g
- Dimensions: 157 x 222mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the 1990s, China’s economic reform campaign reached a new high. Amid the eager adoption of capitalism, however, the spectre of revolution re-emerged. Red Classics, a historic-revolutionary themed genre created in the high socialist era were widely taken up again in television drama adaptations. They have since remained a permanent feature of TV repertoire well into the 2010s. Remaking Red Classics in Post-Mao China looks at the how the revolutionary experience is represented and consumed in the reform era. It examines the adaptation of Red Classics as a result of the dynamic interplay between television stations, media censorship and social sentiment of the populace. How the story of revolution was reinvented to appeal and entertain a new generation provides important clues to the understanding of transformation of class, gender, locality and faith in contemporary China.
Qian Gong is a Senior Lecturer at Curtin University and convenor of the Chinese major program, as well as publishing regularly on Chinese media and popular culture. She was a journalist for China’s national newspaper China Daily before she joined academia.
