Research Catalog

Title

Zoning China : online video, popular culture, and the state / Luzhou Li.

Author

Li, Luzhou Nina

Publication

Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2019.

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Description

xv, 296 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"China is the world's largest market for cultural products, including films produced abroad in the USA and elsewhere. So why is it that just a handful of American movies are imported for theatrical releases in China each year, and anointed by the government to earn massive audiences and box office revenues? Why not more, especially when the same government approves a much larger number of movies for online distribution in China? These and a host of other fascinating questions get answered in this deeply researched account of what the author describes as a policy of cultural zoning. This book analyzes the way in which the Chinese government differently regulates video that is distributed online and video distributed via broadcast, created a "zoned" media environment in which more independence is allowed online than in broadcast. In doing so, the author provides insight into Chinese popular culture and the distinct features of governance in the Chinese environment. Zoning China examines how online video developed as an alternative to television in China in the last two decades"--

Series Statement

Information policy series

Uniform Title

Information policy series.

Subjects

• Television broadcasting policy
• Mass media > Social aspects
• Television broadcasting policy > China
• Mass media > Social aspects > China
• China
• Internet videos > China
• Streaming video > China
• Mass media policy > China

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Culture before the Millennium -- Stay Left : Post-2000 Television Drama Production in China -- Early Online Video : A Political Economic Perspective -- Piracy, Internet Culture, and the Early Online Video Industry -- Bidding on the Rights to Stream : the Industry, Copyright, and New Cultural Flows -- Online Video as an Emerging Network of Cultural Production -- Epilogue: The Operation of a Dual Cultural Sphere ... And?.

Call Number

JFE 20-1307

ISBN

• 9780262043175
• 0262043173

LCCN

• 2019005735
• 40029637878

OCLC

1089968451

Author

Li, Luzhou Nina, author.

Title

Zoning China : online video, popular culture, and the state / Luzhou Li.

Publisher

Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Information policy series

Information policy series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Standard Identifier

40029637878

Research Call Number

JFE 20-1307