Signifying the local : media productions rendered in local languages in mainland China in the new millennium /

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liu, Jin, 1974 August-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Series:China studies ; v. 25.
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Table of 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.