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Screening Post-1989 China

Critical Analysis of Chinese Film and Television

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  • © 2015

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  1. Wing Shan Ho
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Wing Shan Ho
      Pages 1-24

  3. Screening the Economic Subject in Films

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Selfless Party officials and the Socialist Legacy

      • Wing Shan Ho
      Pages 27-48

    3. Insulting Portrayals of the Present Era?: Selling one’s Son, Murder, and Human Trafficking

      • Wing Shan Ho
      Pages 49-72

  4. Screening the Sexual Subject on the Television

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Golden Marriage: An Exemplary Marriage and a Harmonious Society

      • Wing Shan Ho
      Pages 75-93

    3. Narrow Dwelling: Extra-marital Sex and the City

      • Wing Shan Ho
      Pages 95-113

  5. Screening the Political Subject in Films

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. Selling Party Patriotism to Intellectuals in the Chinese Blockbuster Hero

      • Wing Shan Ho
      Pages 117-136

    3. (Dis)Associating Political Dissent and Non-heteronormative Sexual Desire

      • Wing Shan Ho
      Pages 137-157

  6. Conclusion

    1. Conclusion

      • Wing Shan Ho
      Pages 159-169

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 171-227
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About this book

This unique book investigates the tug-of-war between the free market economy and authoritative state regulation in Chinese culture after 1989. Contextualizing close textual readings of cinematic and television texts, both officially sanctioned and independently made, Wing Shan Ho illuminates the complex process in which cultural producers and consumers negotiate with both the state and the market in articulating new forms of subjectivity. Ho examines the types of Chinese subjects that the state applauds and aggrandizes in contrast to those that it condemns and attempts to eliminate. Her focus on the socialist spirit exposes inherent contradictions in the current Chinese project of nation-building. This comparative study shines a harsh light on these cultural products and on much more: the confluence between commerce and politics and popular culture, the interaction between state and individuals in popular culture, and the complexity of governmentality in an era of globalization.

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“Screening Post-1989 China is a well-researched study of how the Chinese government censors and controls electronic media and how the media reacts. It gives new perspectives on Chinese electronic media and a new understanding of how censorship shapes the media in return. It is probably the best book on censorship in China. It is a must-read for understanding Chinese media.” (Kristine Q. Baker, The Washington BookReview, thewashingtonbookreview.com, November, 2016)

About the author

Wing Shan Ho is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Montclair State University, USA. She recently published articles in Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media and Studies in the Humanities.

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