Overview
- Combines theoretical explorations and empirical analyses to investigate the state of entertainment and politics in China
- Offers wide-reaching and in-depth examinations into entertainment’s pollination across diverse media platforms, including the mainstream news media, popular television, and social media
- Invites readers from diverse backgrounds and cultures to rethink the relationship between entertainment media and politics, and the role of new digital media in a civil society
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: East Asian Popular Culture (EAPC)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book advances research about China by providing an updated narrative of its entertainment life in the beginning of China’s twenty-first century. As the rest of the world continues to pay keen attention to developments in China’s politics, economy, and culture, the book provides insights on fascinating new developments in contemporary Chinese popular culture—including its reality television, family dramas centered around younger generations’ life struggles, and social media. Furthermore, Entertainment and Politics in Contemporary China is the first book to apply the theoretical innovation of an aesthetic public sphere in examining closely the linkages between China’s political life and activities in the country’s culture sphere. Since concepts of public sphere and democracy largely took root from the West, Wu argues that this case study of China promises valuable insights about entertainment’s role in the formation of citizenship and building of a civil society, which remains a site of great contention in Western theories and empirical efforts.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jingsi Christina Wu is an award-winning media studies scholar who examines the crossroads of entertainment media, politics, and civic engagement. Dr. Wu’s research has investigated topics as diverse as video gaming, social media and politics, American television, and the Chinese media. Her work has been published in some of the field’s most prestigious journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Entertainment and Politics in Contemporary China
Authors: Jingsi Christina Wu
Series Title: East Asian Popular Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48264-4
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 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-48263-7Published: 11 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83899-1Published: 12 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-48264-4Published: 04 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-5935
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5943
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 236
Topics: Media and Communication, Asian Cinema and TV, Asian Culture, Asian Politics, Social Media