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dc.contributor.authorSun, Wanning
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:34:46Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:34:46Z
dc.date.created2010-03-18T09:04:00Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationSun, Wanning. 2007. Dancing with chains: Significant moments on China Central Television. International Journal of Cultural Studies. 10: pp. 187-204.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22979
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1367877907076786
dc.description.abstract

More than a decade after television became the medium of mass consumption in the West, Raymond Williams published Television: Technology and Cultural Form in 1974. Raymond Williams is interested in television not as the outcome of an isolated aesthetic adventure or technological triumph, but as the manifestation of a profoundly social process. Television arrived in China initially as both metonym and metaphor for the state’s socialist modernity, but has now also become a symptom of the triumph of global capitalism. In what way can Williams’s insights on television technology and social change be revisited and made meaningful to the socio-economic specificity of China in the reform era? By looking at some significant moments on China Central Television in the era of economic reforms since the 1980s, this paper offers an account of the ways in which television as a form of technology plays a crucial role in the various junctures of China’s social formations. In doing so, I seek to unravel the tension and dynamism between the creative and innovative impulse of television technology as an industry, the desire of the Chinese state for hegemonic control, and the naked ambition of the global economy ushered in by the Chinese state.

dc.publisherSage Publications
dc.subjectCCTV
dc.subjectChinese television
dc.subjectRaymond Williams
dc.subjectsocial change
dc.subjectsocial uses of television
dc.subjecttelevision technology
dc.titleDancing with chains: Significant moments on China Central Television
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume10
dcterms.source.startPage187
dcterms.source.endPage204
dcterms.source.issn1367-8779
dcterms.source.titleInternational Journal of Cultural Studies
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The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 10 (2) pp. 187-204, 2007 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © SAGE Publications

curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultyFaculty of Media, Society and Culture
curtin.facultySchool of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
curtin.facultyFaculty of Humanities


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