This collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China. Examining in depth the production, distribution and consumption of

Due to high audience numbers and the significant influence upon the opinions and values of viewers, the political leadership in China attributes great importanc

Historical TV dramas are a highly popular genre in the People's Republic of China and an important, contested factor in shaping historical consciousness of the

Serialized television drama (dianshiju), perhaps the most popular and influential cultural form in China over the past three decades, offers a wide and penetrat

If radio and film were the emblematic media of the Maoist era, television has rapidly established itself as the medium of the "marketized" China and in the dias