Inventing the ‘authentic’ self: American television and Chinese audiences in global Beijing

Inventing the ‘authentic’ self: American television and Chinese audiences in global Beijing

This article examines the ways educated urban Chinese youths engage American television fiction as part of their identity work. Drawing on theories of modern reflexive identity, and based on 29 interviews with US TV fans among university students in Beijing, I found these youths are drawn to this te...

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Main Author: GAO, Yang
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
Subjects:
Authenticity
China
Cross-cultural media consumption
Identity
Modernity
Reflexivity
Television
Youth
Asian Studies
Broadcast and Video Studies
Sociology of Culture
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1918
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3175/viewcontent/GaoY_InventingAuthenticSelf_MCS_2016_afv.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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