Rendering the regional : local language in contemporary Chinese media

Summary: "This ground-breaking study surveys in detail the sweep of local languages in television, radio, film, and print culture of late twentieth-century mainland China, especially Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Chengdu, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Focusing on these regions, the analysis contrasts and compares these distinct communities to each other and to the ways in which they mediate culture as a national institution. It draws on a wide range of critical, cultural, and media studies and explores how varied genres and media have sought to represent the tensions and assertions within these societies and how they construct the local in an age of globalization. Impressively researched and fluidly narrated, Rendering the Regional offers a balanced and thoroughly novel treatment of a vital, often controversial topic."--BOOK JACKET.