| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
Media, culture and social change in Asia |
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Media, culture, and social change in Asia series
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| Contents |
Projecting influence : film and the limits of Beijing's soft power / Paul Clark -- Soft power in the living room : a survey of television drama in CCTV's foreign language channels / Dani Madrid-Morales -- Poetics of failure :performing humanism in the Chinese blockbuster / Victor Fan -- Going to Hollywood with non-Han films : a potential soft-power synergy? / Vanessa Frangville -- Upclose, broadcasting the Chinese dream : CCTV news and China's cultural policy presented to a global audience / Viola Sarnelli -- Non-state agents, quotidian soft power, and the work of the Overseas Film Festival : case studies from London / Luke Robinson -- Towards a "Chinese cinema" in New Zealand : transnational cinema as localized soft power / Luo Hui -- CCTV Africa in an expanding mediasphere : Chinese soft power and a South-South connectivity out of Kenya / Keith B. Wagner -- Animating virtual soft power : digital animation's dreams, nightmares, and wonders / Paola Voci -- Soft power by accident or by design : if you are the one and Chinese television / Wanning Sun -- Jia Zhangke's Mountains may depart (2015) and the China dream; or, How Chinese art cinema learned to stop worrying and love Chinese soft power / Elena Pollacchi -- The feminine touch : Chinese soft power politics and Hong Kong women filmmakers / Gina Marchetti -- Afterword : shifting perspectives on soft power and Chinese screens / Yingjin Zhang |
| Summary |
"Promoting China's cultural soft power by disseminating modern Chinese values is one of the policies of President Xi Jinping. Although, it is usually understood as a top-down initiative, implemented willingly or unwillingly by writers, filmmakers, artists, and so on, and often manifesting itself in clumsy and awkward ways, for example, the concept of "the Chinese dream," intended to rival and perhaps appeal more strongly than "the American dream," modern Chinese values are in fact put forward in many ways by many different cultural actors. Through analyses of film festivals, CCTV, Confucius Institutes, auteurs, blockbusters, reality TV, and online digital cultures, this book exposes the limitations of China's officially promoted soft power in both conception and practice, and proposes a pluralistic approach to understanding Chinese soft power in local, regional, and transnational contexts. As such, the book demonstrates the limitations of existing theories of soft power, and argues that the US-derived concept of soft power can benefit from being examined from a China perspective."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- China -- History and criticism
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Television programs -- China -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Motion pictures
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Television programs
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| SUBJECT |
China -- In motion pictures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024205
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China -- On television
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Voci, Paola, editor
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Hui, Luo, editor
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| ISBN |
9781315617930 |
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1315617935 |
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