Contents

pp.：  5 – 8

Acknowledgments

pp.：  9 – 10

Introduction

pp.：  11 – 28

Chapter One A Historical Review of the Discourse of the Local in Twentieth-Century China

pp.：  29 – 68

Introduction

pp.：  29 – 31

Late Qing: Lao Naixuan’s Simplified Script and Zhang Taiyan’s New Dialect

pp.：  32 – 40

Advocating Dialect and Dialect Literature during the May Fourth Period

pp.：  41 – 49

The Ambiguous Attitude towards Dialect in the Mass Language Discussion and the Latinxua New Writing Movement

pp.：  50 – 57

The Transcendence of the Local and the Reform of Dialect during and after the “National Forms” Debate

pp.：  58 – 68

Chapter Two An Overview of Television Series Productions in the 2000s

pp.：  69 – 92

Beijing

pp.：  70 – 75

Shanghai

pp.：  76 – 80

Chongqing and Chengdu

pp.：  81 – 85

Guangzhou

pp.：  86 – 92

Chapter Three Alternative Translation: Performativity in Dubbing Films in Local Languages

pp.：  93 – 114

Introduction

pp.：  93 – 94

Dubbing as an Alternative Translation

pp.：  95 – 96

Local-Language Dubbing as a Reaction to the Putonghua Dubbing Tradition

pp.：  97 – 98

Laughter and Local Community

pp.：  99 – 102

Power Reversals in Local-Language Versions of Tom and Jerry

pp.：  103 – 110

The Issue of Child Audiences

pp.：  111 – 114

Chapter Four Empowering Local Community: TV News Talk Shows in Local Languages

pp.：  115 – 130

Aliutou Talks News and the News Entertainmentization

pp.：  115 – 118

News Talks Shows and the Traditional Performing Arts

pp.：  119 – 122

News Talk Shows and Local Community Building

pp.：  123 – 127

The Emergence of the Lanmuju Genre and News Dramatization

pp.：  128 – 130

Chapter Five Ambivalent Laughter: Comic Sketches in CCTV’s Spring Festival Eve Gala

pp.：  131 – 152

Bakhtin’s Theory of Folk Humor

pp.：  132 – 135

Evolution of Xiaopin in CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala

pp.：  136 – 141

Zhao Benshan’s Comic Sketches and Northeast Errenzhuan

pp.：  142 – 152

Chapter Six Popular Music and Local Youth Identity in the Age of the Internet

pp.：  153 – 196

Xue Cun’s Breakthrough and the Wave of Internet Songs in Local Languages

pp.：  158 – 160

An Alternative Cultural Space

pp.：  161 – 172

The Use of Local Languages in Rock Music in the Late 1990s

pp.：  173 – 181

Locality, Youth Identity, and the Internet

pp.：  182 – 185

A Case Study of Shanghai Rap and the SHN Website

pp.：  186 – 196

Chapter Seven The Rhetoric of Local Languages as the Marginal: Chinese Underground and Independent Films by Jia Zhangke and Others

pp.：  197 – 224

Jia’s Documentary Filmmaking Style

pp.：  200 – 201

Private Space versus Public Space in Xiao Wu

pp.：  202 – 205

The Tension between Diegesis and Mimesis in Platform

pp.：  206 – 210

Gendered Language Use in Unknown Pleasures

pp.：  211 – 213

Intellectuals’ Representation of the Subaltern in Underground Films in Local Languages

pp.：  214 – 224

Chapter Eight Multiplicity in Mainstream Studio Films in Local Languages

pp.：  225 – 260

Subjectivity in the Use of Language and Voice in Missing Gun

pp.：  230 – 236

The Language of the “Little Characters”

pp.：  237 – 245

Grotesque Realism in Crazy Stone and the New Development of the Comedy Genre

pp.：  246 – 260

Chapter Nine The Unassimilated Voice in Recent Fiction in Local Languages

pp.：  261 – 286

Rural Local Languages in Nativist Fiction

pp.：  263 – 274

Local Languages in Zhiqing Fiction and Their Film Adaptations

pp.：  275 – 286

Conclusion

pp.：  287 – 296

Film, Video, and Audio Sources

pp.：  297 – 300

Bibliography

pp.：  301 – 320

Index

pp.：  321 – 325