China's Modern Literati TV Dramas And The Elite Culture On Screen

The demands for TV viewers are multi-faceted and multi-level, both leisure and entertainment viewing desires are needed, so the chose of "the spring snow" and the "song of the rustic poor" can both be found in the related audience groups. A debate between "elegant" and "popular" have once happened in the field of literature and art. There are also three different kinds of television dramas on the screen, including the main theme television dramas, the commercial television dramas, and the elite television dramas which will be discussed in the paper. The paper concertrates on the topic of "China's Modern Literati TV Dramas" phenomenon which appeared around the new century, and tries to analysis its inherent characteristics.