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- Explores the popular imagination of romantic love created by television in the post-socialist China
- Argues that love and romantic relationships are highly coded within the concerns of the dominant ideology, morality, and consumer culture
- Demonstrates how Chinese television aims to incorporate mainstream and dominant Chinese traditions, values, and ideology, without having to reject capitalism and neoliberalism
Part of the book series: East Asian Popular Culture (EAPC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The book focuses on how romantic love, which plays a vital role in China’s ideologically highly restricted social environment by empowering people with individual choice, change, and social mobility, must struggle and compromise with the reality, specifically the values and problems emerging in a transitional China. The book also examines how the representation of romantic love celebrates ideals—individual freedom, passion, and gender equality—and promises changes based on individual diligence and talent while simultaneously obstructing the fulfillment of these ideals.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Japanese and Chinese, Willamette University, Salem, USA
Huike Wen
About the author
Huike Wen is Associate Professor of Chinese at Willamette University, Oregon, USA. She has focused on studying romantic relationship, marriage, and intimacy on Chinese television in recent years. Her research focuses on gender in Asian media.
She is the author of Television and the Modernization Ideal in 1980s China (2013). She has also published in English in ASIA Network Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies, Journal of Communication Inquiry, and in Chinese in various Chinese academic journals, such as Journal of Sichuan University, Journal of Southwest University for Nationalities, and Light Vehicles. She has authored the “Auto Forum” discussing auto culture for Sohu.com, one of the two largest Chinese internet portals. She has also contributed to Chinese Reading World, an online reading practice system designed for Chinese learners.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Romance in Post-Socialist Chinese Television
Authors: Huike Wen
Series Title: East Asian Popular Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47729-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47728-8Published: 14 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47731-8Published: 14 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47729-5Published: 13 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-5935
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5943
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 130
Topics: Asian Cinema and TV, Asian Culture, Screen Studies