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China pop! : pop culture, propaganda, Pacific pop-ups / Sheng-mei Ma.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Ma, Sheng-mei, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Popular culture--China.
Popular culture.
Propaganda, Chinese--History.
Propaganda, Chinese.
China--Social life and customs.
China.
Place of Publication:
Ohio State University Press 2024
Summary:
"Takes an autotheoretical approach to critiquing the propaganda embedded in millennial Chinese pop culture, particularly TV dramas, films, and web novels, from both within and outside China"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The art of propaganda : some TV series circa the Chinese Communist Party Centennial
Triangulating TV series of melodramatic dialectic "with Chinese characteristics" : gamblin' professionals in cities; Goth and Darwin in the Wild West
The ghost of Guimi from imperial to millennial China
Six million Jews and how many Chinese : "Ten-Year Holocaust" of the Cultural Revolution
The subtitle wagging the screen : the untranslated and One Second
Laosanjie peers back at the Red Sun : Zhang Yimou of the "chain gang"
Brechtian AlienAsian : socialist ex machina from The good woman of Setzuan and David Hare's Fanshen
Love in a falling city : David Hare's Saigon and the musical Miss Saigon
Eastern witch from the West : Xianniang in Niki Caro's Mulan
Chinatown comedy unto itself
Southern woe, minority lens : ride with Woodrell-Schamus-Ang Lee
Bipolar America : the anti-Asian versus Minari
Refugees with guns, Laobing with phallus : ghost of Taiwan circa 1949.
ISBN:
9780814283882

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