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Description

1. xv, 296 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "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

1. Information policy series

Uniform title

1. Information policy series.

Subject

1. Television broadcasting policy
2. Mass media > Social aspects
3. Television broadcasting policy > China
4. Mass media > Social aspects > China
5. China
6. Internet videos > China
7. Streaming video > China
8. Mass media policy > China

Contents

1. 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

1. JFE 20-1307

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Li, Luzhou Nina, author.

Title

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

Publisher

1. Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2019.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Information policy series
2. Information policy series.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2019005735

Other standard identifier

1. 40029637878

ISBN

1. 9780262043175 hardcover
2. 0262043173 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFE 20-1307