{"id":6615,"date":"2023-03-30T11:18:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T15:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chinacenter.net\/?post_type=book&#038;p=6615"},"modified":"2023-03-30T11:18:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T15:18:19","slug":"signifying-the-local","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.chinacenter.net\/book\/signifying-the-local\/","title":{"rendered":"Signifying the Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0<i>Signifying the Local<\/i>, Jin Liu examines contemporary cultural productions rendered in local languages and dialects (<i>fangyan<\/i>) in the fields of television, cinema, music, and literature in Mainland China. This ground-breaking interdisciplinary research provides an account of the ways in which local-language media have become a platform for the articulation of multivocal, complex, and marginal identities in post-socialist China. 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