Signifying the local : media productions rendered in local languages in mainland China in the new millennium - Liu, Jin, 1974 August- (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013)
Introduction -- A historical review of the discourse of the local in twentieth-century China -- An overview of television series productions in the 2000s -- Alternative translation: performativity in dubbing films in local languages -- Empowering local community: TV news talk shows in local languages -- Ambivalent laughter: comic sketches in CCTV's spring festival eve gala -- Popular music and local youth identity in the age of the Internet -- The rhetoric of local languages as the marginal: Chinese underground and independent films by Jia Zhangke and others -- Multiplicity in mainstream studio films in local languages -- The unassimilated voice in recent fiction in local languages -- Conclusion.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Mass media and language -- China; Local mass media -- China; Mass media and minorities -- China; Communication and culture -- China; Chinese language -- Dialects; China -- Languages; Electronic books