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DESCRIPTION:This talk explains the significance of an unlikely encounter be
 tween Wang Shuo\, a writer who became infamous in the 1980s for his transg
 ressive portraits of the Beijing underclass\, and a nascent Chinese televi
 sion industry searching for a popular and economic model for the media. Th
 is challenge led the television workers of the Beijing Television Arts Cen
 ter to look abroad for models - Brazilian and Mexican telenovelas\, Japane
 se asadoras - and domestically to the colloquial language\, archetypes\, a
 nd sentimentality of Wang Shuo’s fiction. The BTAC synthesized these influ
 ences into the shineiju (studio drama)\, a model that reflected both the d
 emands of the industry and an emerging postsocialist ideology of domestici
 ty. Despite being instrumental in its creation\, Wang quickly turned on a 
 televisual culture that he found empty\, dishonest and oppressive. Wang’s 
 contribution to and eventual disaffection with television points to proble
 ms of television that span capitalist and socialist\, Eastern and Western 
 media environments.\n
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LOCATION:680 Sherbrooke W\, Room # 1041 (10th floor)\, Sherbrooke  688\, CA
 \, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 3R1\, 688 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Everything for the People\, Everything for Money: Wang Shuo and the
  Rise of Televisual Postsocialism
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 oney-wang-shuo-and-rise-televisual-postsocialism-360764
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