| Since the 1990's, history TV play series , especially Qing Dynasty TV plays, had their moment. According to our habit, in this dissertation, we call those Qing Dynasty TV plays Qing Dynasty Plays (Qingchao Ju)Based on the great deal of studies, this dissertation analyses why the Qing Dynasty Plays enjoy general popularity. The dissertation consists of six chapters:l)A Map of Sources and the Issue of Qing Dynasty TV plays; 2) Qing Dynasty Plays and the Consumption of History; 3) the Mirror of Reality; 4) the Narrative Ways to the TV Plays as Popular Culture; 5) the Qing Dynasty Plays must Face TV Plays' Market; 6)Concluding Remarks.Chapter 1 first briefs the reasons for choosing this project. In the mass, the material which other people had done can be concluded as follows:1)From the point of view of culture consumption, the history TV plays possess characteristics of amusements. 2) From the point of view of ideology, the TV plays possess characteristics of power and main ideology. 3) From the point of view of initiating history knowledge, many people think that TV plays can accelerate or mislead the history knowledge. Many people who work at TV stations or TV series production companies have written a lot of articles about the choice of TV plays' subject matter, playwright summary or request of the media market. As a mass medium, the Qing Dynasty Plays must be evaluated from typology. Furthermore, this dissertation gives a new concept: the Qing Dynasty Plays Culture. Only from typology can we explainwhy many TV plays are produced in the same way and get high audience rating. Only in Qing Dynasty Plays Culture can we understand why many people have been talking about TV plays from different viewpoints.Chapter 2 first explains Qing Dynasty Plays Culture in detail, and analyses how the history is consumed. Further more, in chapter 2, the author tries to understand how the verity of history is embodied in a form of TV series. Many people would think that literary production on Qing Dynasty only appeared in the 1990s', but it is not the case. In fact, many films about Qing Dynasty had been produced in 1980s. In those years, a famous actress, Liu Xiaoqing, came to the top for her part of Cixi, empress of Qing Dynasty. Though films belong to mass media, not many people have much time and money to spend on going to cinema because of poverty. Accordingly, a fat lot people talk about films.. In other words, literary production on Qing Dynasty came forth but there was no Qing Dynasty media culture. Only in the 1990's, when more and more families had TV sets and a lot of TV series related to Qing Dynasty were produced and broadcasted, numerous people began to watch Qing Dynasty TV plays and debate TV plays, did Qing Dynasty TV plays culture come into being.Basing on the Qing Dynasty TV plays culture, the author probes into two relations: history series vs history studying; history series' artistic verity vs historical reality. It is true that many people have the idea of "watching television to get two birds: amusement and historical knowledge". Many reviewers draw a conclusion that history will promote or misguide historical ideas and so forth. But it is not the case. A person with lofty ideals on history has his professional ways toward history. The main motivation of TV-watching, for most of people, is to get recreation. The same idea is suited for history. In other words, for most people every way to history is the same effect. The TV plays producer's mission is to get more and more value ( market value, aesthetic value, patriotism and so on ) form the production's commercial aesthetics.Chapter 3 talks about two extendable topics: power culture and reformation. Atopic is talked widely but all content related to the original thing, so the basic topic comes into being. In media culture, Qing Dynasty Plays is a basic topic. In fact, TV series does not necessarily have relation to power culture and reformation. But in John Fiske's words, this condition is made clear that the audience are meaning-producers. This chapter further discusses the Qing Dynasty TV Plays Culture and expresses TV series' mirror role of realistic phenomena. The right orwrong of the two extendable topics' idea is not this dissertation's task......at least,the author do not care about this task.Chapter 4 discusses how the TV series tell attractive stories. In China, TV is controlled by many forces(government's ascendancy ideology, popular interest and so on).On the one hand, Qing Dynasty TV plays cooperate with government departments and use government's powerful influence so that many TV serieses such as yongzheng dynasty (yongzheng wangchao), kangxi dynasty (kangxi wangchao) can be broadcasedt on CCTV. On the other hand, the TV plays cater to ordinary people's taste and the history fact must provide amusement. Just as Hu Mei, a famous film and TV series director said: " If history collides with popular taste, we can only abnegate expertise and think over audience fancy." (guanzhong youxian, zhuanjia ranglu) That is why most of the Qing Dynasty TV Plays are in much the same modes.Chapter 5 analyses Qing Dynasty Plays from the point of view of cultural market. With the development of TV market and the advance of audience appreciatory level, the quality of TV series become more and more important. This article points out that Qing Dynasty Plays is the result of market choice. Most of the investosr of Qing Dynasty Plays are nongovernmental companies. They must take into account profit. So that the market factor brand all the aspect of the TV series, such as selecting material, facture. Atypical example is the $rod\i.ciion.ol yongzheng dynasty, which enjoyes high audience rating because of its fine facture.Chapter 6 is the conclusion . This paper insists that Qing Dynasty TV Plays is a type of history in TV series family. Many factors, such as ideology, marketing leadto many qingchaoju has being on TV screen. Farthermore, in our country the TV series culture is not yet mature, so we advocate well-balanced and tolerant teleplay critique, especially the relations of history truth and aesthetics pleasure.What is new about this paper is that the author brings up a new concept, that is, the Qing Dynasty Plays Culture and, he tries to evaluate this kind of TV plays from the point of view of typology and media culture. The media culture time has been coming, we all should have new angles to view world we live in.
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