MCLC: TV, Power, and Ideology in Postsocialist China

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: geng song (Geng.Song at anu.edu.au)
Subject: TV, Power, and Ideology in Postsocialist China
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Television, Power, and Ideology in Post-Socialist China
 

Dates: 2-3, March 2012
Location: Hedley Bull Theatre, Australian National University

Sponsors: Research School of Asia and Pacific and the Department of Gender
and Cultural Studies, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific; Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
 

Organisers: Geng Song (ANU); Ruoyun Bai (University of Toronto)
 

March 2, 2012:
9:00 am ­ 9:20 am:

Opening Remarks

Andrew MacIntyre, Dean of College of Asia and the Pacific and Director of
the Research School of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University
 

Session 1: Commercialization, Entertainmentization and
Ideology:Contextualizing Chinese Television (Chair: Geng Song)

9:20 am ­ 9:40 am: 
³From Central News to Regional Entertainment: the Manufacture of Illusion²
Wanning Sun

9:40 am ­ 10:00 am:
³Entertainmentization of Social Issues: A Cultural Analysis of China¹s
Entertainment Television and Policy Discourses in the 2000s,²
Jingsi Wu

10:00 am ­ 10:30 am:
Discussant (Louise Edwards), Q&A
 

10:30 am ­ 11:00 am:
Coffee Break
 

Session 2: Rethinking Censorship (Chair: Rong Cai)

11:00 am ­ 11:20 am:
³Disciplining the Boundaries of the Visible: A Polanyian Approach to
Chinese Media Regulation and Censorship²
Ruoyun Bai

11:20am ­ 11:40 am:

³Rethinking Censorship in Contemporary China ­ The Case of Woju,²
How Wee Ng

11:40 am ­ 12:00 am:
Discussant (Louise Edwards), Q&A
 

12:00 am ­ 2:00 pm:
Lunch break
 

Session 3 New Forms, New Genres and Contestation (Chair: Ruoyun Bai)

2:00 pm ­ 2:20 pm: 
³The New Family Mediator: A Reality TV Show for a ŒHarmonious Society,¹²
Shuyu Kong

2:20 pm ­ 2:40 pm 
³City TV: Television, Urbanism and Political Society,²
Joshua Neves

2:40 pm ­ 3:00 pm:
Discussant (Wanning Sun), Q&A
 

3:00 pm ­ 3:30 pm 
Coffee break
 

Session 4: Rewriting the Red Classics (Chair: Shuyu Kong)

3:30 pm ­ 3:50 pm:
³Making the Present Serve the Past: Restaging On Guard under the Neon
Lights on Contemporary Chinese Television,²
Rong Cai
 

3:50 pm to 4:10 pm:
³Villainous Heroes and the Human Villains: The Erasure of Class Discourse
in Television Drama Adaptations of the Red Classics,²
Qian Gong

4:10 pm ­ 4:30 pm:

³Seniors and Media Memories (1949-2011)²,
Stephanie Donald

4:30 pm ­ 4:50pm: 
Discussant (Stephanie Donald), Q&A
 

End of first day

 
March 3, 2012

Session 5: Globalization, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Chinese TV
(Chair: Wanning Sun)

9:00 am ­ 9:20 am: 
³A Modern Family: Cosmopolitanism and Re-imagination of the Chinese
Identity on TV,² 
Geng Song

9:20 am- 9:40 am:

³Foreign Contestants on Chinese Television: Enacting Cosmopolitanism or
Role-playing a Superior Chinese Culture?²
Andrew Chubb and Lauren Gorfinkel

9:40 am ­ 10:00 am:
³China¹s Nationalism on Small and Big Screens,²
Frances Guo

10:00 am ­10:20am:
Discussant (Gaik Cheng Khoo), Q&A
 

10:20 am ­ 10:50 am:
Coffee break
 

6:30pm Conference dinner (University House)
 

More information about the event can be found at:
http://chl.anu.edu.au/gender/seminar_details.php?searchterm=chl_251393673&s
emyear=2012