Book Review: Two Billion Eyes
Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television by Ying Zhu. The New Press, New York For most people CCTV is associated with surveillance cameras. However, for people living in China CCTV is...
View ArticleHow Neighbours wiped out a family and took us back to the 70s
I don’t watch Neighbours. I never really enjoyed the suburban drama of Ramsey Street, preferring the sun, surf and sand of Summer Bay. However, my interest in pop culture, occasional channel surfing...
View ArticleSerangoon Road: a bridge for co-production and cultural learning in the...
Serangoon Road is an Australian-Singapore ten part TV series. A detective noir drama set in the sixties, Serangoon Road is set in a time when Singapore was breaking away from Malaysia and becoming an...
View ArticleAn Undercover Story: If you are the one
If you are the one (Feicheng wurao) Episode One In China an intelligent single woman over 30 years old (or maybe 28 sometimes) is automatically tagged by society as a ‘leftover’. If this woman has the...
View ArticleChina’s television industry but not as we know it
On the 5th December 2013 a crowd of media industry professionals and observers crammed into the Number One Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt Shanghai Hotel to listen to the new elite of China’s online...
View ArticleCulture and TV: not irreconcilable opposites
Despite scepticism about its future, television lives on in new ways. As in most media industries around the world television in China is in a state of rapid change. Local adaptation of TV formats is...
View ArticleTelemodernities: life advice television and transformations of selfhood in Asia
Telemodernities: life advice television and transformations of selfhood in Asia Didactic personal makeover shows from China’s CCTV promoting competitive individualism and middle-class consumption...
View ArticleThe Chinese Television Industry
Introduction Over the past decade Chinese television has become a popular topic for researchers. Scholars have theorized, analysed, and interpreted programmes, discussed policies on censorship and...
View ArticleWild formats running free: television and cultural diversity in Asia.
by Michael Keane Image Starry Daddy. [Shenzhen Satellite publicity) I had my first experience of watching Chinese television in 1993. That year was spent in Tianjin, a large northern industrial city,...
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