Transitions Of The Chinese Family Ethics TV Series

This thesis summarizes the transitions of the Chinese family ethics TV series in 20 years; analyzes the reasons and demonstrates the concrete performance of its transitions in 3 dimensions. According to the description of this cultural phenomenon, this thesis discusses the Chinese family ethics TV series' connotation and its advantage and disadvantage in the process of development, aiming to make a comprehensive understanding on this cultural phenomenon.In 1990's, a new type of TV series appears, which is called the Chinese family ethics TV series. This kind of TV series devotes itself to express common people's daily life and the emotion imbroglio between family members. In 1990, the broadcasting of "The Aspiration" marks the entering of the Chinese family ethics TV series into anterior alignment, and promotes the establishment of television series featured by realistic narration. Up to now, audience rating of the family ethics TV series is high, and this kind of TV series really makes a remarking promotion in 20 years' development.Currently, as a popular cultural phenomenon, the family ethic TV series has already caused the researcher's extensive concern. But the study on it is still in great disorder. In the earlier study period, the family ethics TV play, belonging to the realistic TV series, haven't become an independent object. As a result, the abundant content of it is being concealed, which is really a regret; Along with the family ethics TV series becomes a fever topic, the scholar concentrates on making analysis on the separately factor of a certain play, but lacks of a whole analysis. Although this research can help to make deeper analysis on the family ethics TV play and provide abundant material to promote for the whole research, the value of this kind of research will fade away along with the frozen of that series; Taking the family ethics play as a whole and studying on it's aesthetic and cultural character are also an important apart of current research. But a conflict evaluation is often concluded. Some approve its positive functions on propagandizing family ethics and maintaining the harmony of a family, but others argue that it is a chain of popular culture production and thus should be completely denied. The absolutely opposite attitudes make us to take a careful consideration. With the insufficiency, desultoriness and unilateralism of the research, we should put the family ethics TV series under the popular culture circumstance and carry on a dynamic research on the family ethics TV series.This thesis mainly describes the Chinese family ethics TV series' transition and its reasons in 20 years, combining present social condition and the discourse of popular culture .This text aims to post its cultural content and its gain and loss in the process of transition according to the description of phenomenon and hopes to make an objective comment on the Chinese family ethics TV series' function and status in the popular culture.This thesis can be totally divided into five parts. First, according to the clues of time, to give a generally description of the development and explore the vestige of the family ethics TV series in 20 years. The transition can be divided into three stages: preliminary period, prosperous period, and mature period. From 1990-1998, subjected to the influence of predominate culture, the Chinese family ethics TV series focus on molding the images with the ego morals pursuit. The individual emotion depends on the voluntary practice of traditional ethics idea; in the end of 90's, the center of the expression changes from traditional virtue and family ethics to the complicated emotional imbroglio between individual and interpersonal of the whole family. We can say, the family ethics TV series carried out a change from "rational" to "emotional" in the end of 90's.In the end of 90's, the amount of this TV series is increment, the topic is diverse and truly realizes prosperity in each aspect. But the predicament in the back of prosperity stimulates its self-perfection; around 2005 ,there is a tendency , in which the traditional ethics concept and value is re- expressed ,making the Chinese family ethics TV series become a fever topic in 2005. The family ethics TV series also gets into its mature period.In the second part, this thesis is mainly to describe the transition of the family ethics TV series in three dimensions in detail, the family daily life, the expression of individual ordinary emotion and the impartation of ethics idea are the basic contents of the Chinese family ethics TV series .The concrete performance of the changes embodied in the different expression of different type of ethics idea and emotions corresponding different period; and it also embodies in the changes of predominant culture's function within the family ethics TV series. From the emotion point of view, the family ethics TV series unfolds 3 types of emotional experience in different stage: at first stage, the emotion is classic, great and lofty in the process of awareness of self practice to the traditional ethics criterion; In the end of 90's, it turns to scoop out the depth of the individual emotion. Private affection becomes the center of family ethics TV play; The third stage, family ethics TV play seeks for a balance between the traditional ethics emotion and the modern individual emotion, in order to express a tender emotion concerning with humanism. As for the ethics content, the family ethics TV play embodies different ethical content in different stage: at first stage, the traditional ethics is concerned; at second stage, it reflect individual independent and diversified ethics ideas such as freedom,self- desire and self-content after social transformation; at the third stage, the ethics content aims at appealing the regaining of traditional ethics and then remolding family ethics norm. The relationship between predominant culture and popular culture is another dimension: at first stage, predominate culture, depending on traditional culture, strengths its control on the family ethics TV play; at second stage, the popular culture occupies dominant position in the family ethics TV play; at third stage, predominant culture unifies with popular culture, the culture of the family ethics play heads for stereoscopic with abundant content.In the third part, this thesis discusses the reasons of its transition. The family ethics TV play starts at 1990, in the process of 20 years, it accomplishes twice transitions, and the reason is complicated. Generally speaking, it can be contributed to social economy development; the changes of family structure and function; the concept of idea and the supervision of cultural industry.In the fourth part, this article summaries the gain and lose of the family ethics TV series. To discuss the advantage and disadvantage of family ethics TV play, we should combine its social function with traditional culture and the present social background, in order to make a comprehensive understanding on the family ethics TV series.Above all, we can conclude that: The family ethics TV series is an epitome of popular culture. Its transition refracts the complicated relationship between popular culture and predominant culture; it is also a beneficial and positive tool to resist the amusement culture.