Chinese Television and National Identity Construction: The Cultural Politics of Music-Entertainment Programmes

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Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
Foreword
Preface
Note on Romanization and Chinese names
Acknowledgements
Epigraph
1 Introduction: National identity in the Chinese context
	Media and the making of a nation
	Multiethnic Chinese
	Cultural China: re-centring the PRC
	Civilizational China: the attraction of foreigners
	Notes
	References
2 Music-entertainment culture under the Chinese Communist Party
	Notes
	References
3 Overview of music-entertainment television in China
	History of Chinese television
	The music-entertainment genre
		Music-entertainment programmes on CCTV
		Music-entertainment programmes on provincial satellite channels
		Music-entertainment programmes on city and county television
		Music-entertainment on foreign-owned TV stations in China
	Competition and collaboration in the music-entertainment industry
	Regulations affecting music-entertainment programming
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
4 Multiethnic China
	The orthodox style: a CCP-led multiethnic China
		Fifty-six colourful peripheries, one central red China
		Hand in hand, striding towards the future
	Yuanshengtai folk songs and authentic minority culture bearers
		The CCTV Youth Singing Competition
		Folk Songs China
	Ethno-pop stars: celebrating hybrid ethnic creativity
		Performing Uyghur-Chinese
		Performing Korean-Chinese
		Performing Han-Chinese
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
5 Greater China
	Global ethnic Chineseness and the re-centring of China
	Celebrating the return of Hong Kong
		From ‘My Chinese Heart’ to ‘My Chinese Dream’: Zhang Mingmin
		Hong Kong pop stars’ co-option of Chinese nationalism
		The Same Song in Hong Kong
	Celebrating Macau’s return
		A child returning to her mother
		Happy in China – Charming Macau
		Celebrating cultural hybridity
	Imagining unification/unity with Taiwan
		Re-uniting separated brothers and sisters
		Taiwanese pop stars’ co-option of Chinese nationalism
		Embracing racial hybridity: Fei Xiang (Kris Phillips)
	Performing solidarity with overseas Chinese
		The Same Song overseas
		Overseas Chinese and the China Dream
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
6 Foreign identities
	Sinophiliac and foreigners’ obsessions with China
	Theme songs for China’s international events
	Rediscovering exotic China
	Marrying China
	Internationalizing China with stars from abroad
		Red and Black: African Star Hao Ge
		Red and White: Russian star Vitas
		Learning from the Korean Wave
		Cautious nostalgia with Japan
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
7 Conclusion
	References
8 Glossary
	Chapter 1 – Introduction
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
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