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Say no to CCTV and yes to Internet videos of the classicsPosted by Eric Mu, October 21, 2008 4:20 PM
Chinese TV viewers used to be content with whatever was thrown at them, but with the growth of video-sharing websites, more and more people are just saying no to CCTV. Today's Chengdu Evening News reported on a remake of the Chinese literature classic Dream of the Red Mansions that has been circulating on the Internet and cheered by Internet viewers. Compared to Beijing TV's big budget dramatization of the Dream of the Red Mansions which many have found disappointing for one reason or another even though it has not yet been screened, the unpolished, home-made Internet Dream of the Red Mansions seems more successful. The article says that the maker of the video, who identifies himself as "Shushan Shaoxia" (蜀山少侠) made two episodes of the Dream of the Red Mansions when family got together during the Spring Festival earlier this year. All it took was a script ripped from a high school text book, a digital camera and the family's shared passion for the Chinese literature classic. In his blog, the maker of video talked about how he did it:
Another video which probably owes some of its popularity to to people's dissatisfaction with the pap on broadcast TV in China is From Jingkong Shame to Fengbo Pavilion (从靖康耻到风波亭) by Han Jiangxue (韩江雪). The video follows the style of CCTV's Lecture Room, a program about Chinese history and traditional culture. Mr Han said that he had applied to talk on the Lecture Room three times but every time he was rejected because he does not have an academic title or specialist qualifications. He made his video in the parking garage of his apartment building, at a cost of about 30,000 yuan for renting equipment and hiring a cameraman and editor. On September 18, Han uploaded the video to his blog, but it was only after a guest-host of CCTV's Lecture Room, historian Yan Chongnian, got slapped for his supposed pro-Qing views that the video began to draw attention. But unlike Yan who was blamed for paying too much compliment to the Manchu emperors, Han's program pay tribute to Yue Fei (岳飞), a Han Chinese general who beat the invading Jurchens (who later adopted the name of Manchu) in the Song Dynasty. Han is now looking for a sponsor who can finance his video project and make his novel Trilogy of Yue Fei onto the TV screen. You can watch both videos at the links below. Links and Sources
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Comments on Say no to CCTV and yes to Internet videos of the classics
lol, we did the same thing back then when we were in grandma's house for the Spring Festival, unfortunately we didn't have video camera but only tape recorder, but it was great fun...Only grandchildren joined the play, my female cousin played Baoyu...it was very cute :)
I think the word "veiwer" in the first sentence should be changed into "viewer".
[Thanks. --JM]