Transnational circulation of Chinese language television dramas

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7524401
AutoresYing Zhu (0000-0002-0056-0142, City University of New York, autor de correspondencia), Ying Zhu Ying Zhu (City University of New York)
Año2008
Volumen4
Número1
Páginas59-80
Fecha de publicación2008-03-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobal Media and Communication (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1742-7665 • E-ISSN: 1742-7673
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1742766507086853
OpenAlexW2073189418
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas11

In the late 1990s, a wave of dynasty drama serials began to dominate primetime dramatic programming in People's Republic of China (PRC) television, which soon created a viewing frenzy among Chinese audiences around the world. Together with Taiwan's idol drama and Hong Kong's martial arts sagas and contemporary social mobility dramas, by the early 2000s, PRC's dynasty drama had saturated a pan-Chinese media market. Using transnational dramas from the three Chinese language media production centers as a springboard, this article explores two issues concerning the global circulation of Chinese language television dramas: the forces conducive to their transnational circulation and its cultural and economic impact. It utilizes the framework of the `cultural-linguistic market' to analyze the factors enabling the formation of a Chinese cultural-linguistic media and the products viable for the market. It further entertains the question of how the emergence of a Chinese cultural-linguistic market, together with other cultural-linguistic markets, complicates the power dynamic of global cultural flow

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