Trip down memory lane : revisiting red classics as television drama in post - Mao China

Gong, Q

Trip down memory lane : revisiting red classics as television drama in post - Mao China

Gong, Q

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Gong, Q
dc.date.accessioned	2011
dc.date.accessioned	2012-12-15T03:53:42Z
dc.date.available	2012-03-09T05:12:15Z
dc.date.available	2012-12-15T03:53:42Z
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/20404
dc.description	University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
dc.description.abstract	In the post-Mao era, the boundaries of the Red Classics, the canonical Chinese socialist literary and theatrical works, and the values and aesthetics they promoted were transgressed. By adopting the “circuit of cultures” as a methodology, this thesis explicates how a canonical body of texts created to politicise and educate socialist citizens has been transformed into TV dramas appealing to an increasingly sophisticated, demanding audience. The study situates the transformation of the genre within the context of China’s transition from a Maoist socialist society to a neoliberal one. The TV adaptation of the Red Classics embodies the transition from an era dominated by mass production and consumption for ideological control to an era in which political indoctrination and market differentiation compete for audiences in contemporary China. In this process, the norms and standards prescribed by the Red Classics have been dismantled, subverted, transgressed, and re-written.	en
dc.format	Thesis (PhD)	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.relation	https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/20404/2/02Whole.pdf
dc.relation.replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/2100/1295
dc.rights	The author owns the copyright in this thesis including all reproduction and reuse rights for the work. The work may not be altered without the permission of the copyright owner. Attribution is essential when quoting or paraphrasing from this thesis.
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	au.edu.uts.lib/ppc
dc.subject	Television.	en
dc.subject	Drama.	en
dc.subject	Red classics.	en
dc.subject	China.	en
dc.subject	Socialism.	en
dc.subject	Adaptations.	en
dc.subject	Neoliberalism.	en
dc.title	Trip down memory lane : revisiting red classics as television drama in post - Mao China	en
dc.type	Thesis
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

Abstract:

In the post-Mao era, the boundaries of the Red Classics, the canonical Chinese socialist literary and theatrical works, and the values and aesthetics they promoted were transgressed. By adopting the “circuit of cultures” as a methodology, this thesis explicates how a canonical body of texts created to politicise and educate socialist citizens has been transformed into TV dramas appealing to an increasingly sophisticated, demanding audience. The study situates the transformation of the genre within the context of China’s transition from a Maoist socialist society to a neoliberal one. The TV adaptation of the Red Classics embodies the transition from an era dominated by mass production and consumption for ideological control to an era in which political indoctrination and market differentiation compete for audiences in contemporary China. In this process, the norms and standards prescribed by the Red Classics have been dismantled, subverted, transgressed, and re-written.

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