- [UNTITLED]
- Contributors
- Introduction: Chinese Cinemas and the Art of Extrapolation
- D. W. Griffith and the Rise of Chinese Cinema in Early 1920s Shanghai
- Ombres Chinoises: Split Screens and Parallel Lives in Love and Duty
- Fei Mu, Mei Lanfang, and the Polemics of Screening China
- A National Cinema for a Puppet State: The Manchurian Motion Picture Association
- A Genealogy of Cinephilia in the Maoist Period
- Cold War Politics and Hong Kong Mandarin Cinema
- Conceiving Cross-Border Communities: Mobile Women in Recent Hong Kong Cinema
- Taiwan New Cinema: Small Nation with Soft Power
- Chinese Cinema With Hollywood Characteristics, or How <i>The Karate Kid</i> Became a Chinese Film
- World as Picture and Ruination: On Jia Zhangke’s Still Life as World Cinema
- The Opera Film in Chinese Cinema: Cultural Nationalism and Cinematic Form
- A Small History of <i>Wenyi</i>
- Art, Politics, and Internationalism: Korean War Films in Chinese Cinema
- Edification Through Affection: The Cultural Revolution Films, 1974–1976
- Reforming Vengeance: kung fu and the racial melancholia of chinese masculinity
- Desire and Distribution: Queer/Chinese/Cinema
- Thirdspace Between Flows and Places: Chinese Independent Documentary and Social Theories of Space and Locality
- From Anticorruption to Officialdom: The Transformation of Chinese Dynasty TV Drama
- New Media: Large Screens in China
- Online Small-Screen Cinema: The Cinema of Attractions and the Emancipated Spectator
- Acting Real: Cinema, Stage, and the Modernity of Performance in Chinese Silent Film
- Edward Yang and Taiwan’s Age of Auteurs
- A Marriage of Convenience: Musical Moments in Chinese Movies
- Policing Film in Early Twentieth-Century China, 1905–1923
- Between Will and Negotiation: Film Policy in the First Three Years of the People’s Republic of China
- Fetish Power Unbound: A Small History of “Woman” in Chinese Cinema
- Ethnographic Representation Across Genres The Culture Trope in Contemporary Mainland Media
- Conjuring the Masses: The Spectral/Spectacular Crowd in Chinese Film
- The Idea of Asia(nism) and Trans-Asian Productions
- Film and Contemporary Chinese Art: Mediums and Remediation
- Crossing the Same River Twice: Documentary Reenactment and the Founding of PRC Documentary Cinema
- Remade in China: Cinema with “Chinese Elements” in the Dapian Age
- Along the Riverrun: Cinematic Encounters in Tsai Ming-Liang’s The River
- Afterword (<span xml:lang="chi">尾聲</span>)
- Filmographies
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter explores the political, economic, and cultural context that has given rise to Chinese serial TV dramas set in distant dynasties, and links recent transformations in their thematic content with popular and intellectual debates concerning the path, steps, and speed of China’s ongoing economic and political reform. The chapter elaborates how the shifts in the themes and foci of these dramas mirror shifts in Chinese elite and popular attitudes and discourses of the past two decades. The focus is on the emergence of what may be called “officialdom dramas” since the early 2000s, which treats systematic corruption as inevitable.
Keywords: television dramas, Chinese dynasty dramas, corruption, The Great Ming Dynasty 1566, Hai Rui
Ying Zhu is Professor and Chair of Department of Media Culture at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and from the American Council of Learned Societies, she is the author or editor of eight books, including Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television.
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- [UNTITLED]
- Contributors
- Introduction: Chinese Cinemas and the Art of Extrapolation
- D. W. Griffith and the Rise of Chinese Cinema in Early 1920s Shanghai
- Ombres Chinoises: Split Screens and Parallel Lives in Love and Duty
- Fei Mu, Mei Lanfang, and the Polemics of Screening China
- A National Cinema for a Puppet State: The Manchurian Motion Picture Association
- A Genealogy of Cinephilia in the Maoist Period
- Cold War Politics and Hong Kong Mandarin Cinema
- Conceiving Cross-Border Communities: Mobile Women in Recent Hong Kong Cinema
- Taiwan New Cinema: Small Nation with Soft Power
- Chinese Cinema With Hollywood Characteristics, or How <i>The Karate Kid</i> Became a Chinese Film
- World as Picture and Ruination: On Jia Zhangke’s Still Life as World Cinema
- The Opera Film in Chinese Cinema: Cultural Nationalism and Cinematic Form
- A Small History of <i>Wenyi</i>
- Art, Politics, and Internationalism: Korean War Films in Chinese Cinema
- Edification Through Affection: The Cultural Revolution Films, 1974–1976
- Reforming Vengeance: kung fu and the racial melancholia of chinese masculinity
- Desire and Distribution: Queer/Chinese/Cinema
- Thirdspace Between Flows and Places: Chinese Independent Documentary and Social Theories of Space and Locality
- From Anticorruption to Officialdom: The Transformation of Chinese Dynasty TV Drama
- New Media: Large Screens in China
- Online Small-Screen Cinema: The Cinema of Attractions and the Emancipated Spectator
- Acting Real: Cinema, Stage, and the Modernity of Performance in Chinese Silent Film
- Edward Yang and Taiwan’s Age of Auteurs
- A Marriage of Convenience: Musical Moments in Chinese Movies
- Policing Film in Early Twentieth-Century China, 1905–1923
- Between Will and Negotiation: Film Policy in the First Three Years of the People’s Republic of China
- Fetish Power Unbound: A Small History of “Woman” in Chinese Cinema
- Ethnographic Representation Across Genres The Culture Trope in Contemporary Mainland Media
- Conjuring the Masses: The Spectral/Spectacular Crowd in Chinese Film
- The Idea of Asia(nism) and Trans-Asian Productions
- Film and Contemporary Chinese Art: Mediums and Remediation
- Crossing the Same River Twice: Documentary Reenactment and the Founding of PRC Documentary Cinema
- Remade in China: Cinema with “Chinese Elements” in the Dapian Age
- Along the Riverrun: Cinematic Encounters in Tsai Ming-Liang’s The River
- Afterword (<span xml:lang="chi">尾聲</span>)
- Filmographies
- Index
