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Signifying the local : media productions rendered in local languages in mainland China in the new millennium / by Jin Liu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Liu, Jin, 1974 August-
- Series:
- China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 25.
- China studies, 1570-1344 ; volume 25
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media and language--China.
- Mass media and language.
- Local mass media--China.
- Local mass media.
- Mass media and minorities--China.
- Mass media and minorities.
- Communication and culture--China.
- Communication and culture.
- Chinese language--Dialects.
- Chinese language.
- China--Languages.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Signifying the Local , Jin Liu examines contemporary cultural productions rendered in local languages and dialects ( fangyan ) in the fields of television, cinema, music, and literature in Mainland China. This ground-breaking interdisciplinary research provides an account of the ways in which local-language media have become a platform for the articulation of multivocal, complex, and marginal identities in post-socialist China. Viewed from the uniquely revealing perspective of local languages, the mediascape of China is no longer reducible to a unified, homogeneous, and coherent national culture, and thus renders any monolithic account of the Chinese language, Chineseness, and China impossible.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A historical review of the discourse of the local in twentieth-century China
- An overview of television series productions in the 2000s
- Alternative translation: performativity in dubbing films in local languages
- Empowering local community: TV news talk shows in local languages
- Ambivalent laughter: comic sketches in CCTV's spring festival eve gala
- Popular music and local youth identity in the age of the Internet
- The rhetoric of local languages as the marginal: Chinese underground and independent films by Jia Zhangke and others
- Multiplicity in mainstream studio films in local languages
- The unassimilated voice in recent fiction in local languages
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-25902-3
- OCLC:
- 857713150
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