Chinese Television in the Twenty-First Century

This book examines why entertainment television is politically and culturally significant in China and how Chinese television relates to the state and society. Further, it explores media regulation and censorship, asks what popular televisual texts tell us about the unsettled and reconfigured relations between commercial television, audiences and the state? An interdisciplinary study of the television industry this book covers a number of important issues in China today, such as censorship, nationalism, consumerism, social justice and the central and local authorities.