The Chinese Censorship Discourse on Television Dramas

This book offers a compelling look at how television censorship in China works not just as top-down control, but as interactions between state, industry, and viewers.

How Wee Ng is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Westminster, UK, and co-founder of the Association for Curators and Programmers of Asian Cinemas (ACPAC). He specialises in cinemas, media and theatres of the Sinosphere, film curation, censorship, and the politics of representation in visual culture.

Introduction: Rethinking Censorship as Discourse, Articulatory Practices, Performance and Dialogic 1. Historical Context: Worrying about the Television Audience in Postsocialist China When is China: Playing with History in Tales of Qianlong and 5. The Bane of Chinese Civilisation: Pruning Gangtai Dramas and Meteor Garden 6. Disarming the Knight-Errant: Remaking Wuxia in My Own Swordsman Reflections: The Audience Imagined: Future Research on Censorship in China and Beyond