Watching TV with the Red Chinese (Hardcover)


Television is America . . . as seen by three visiting graduate students from communist China in the early 1980s. In an innovative first novel Whisnant juxtaposes the fast pace of television and commercial jargon with reflective narrative to depict an America whose inhabitants are both subjects and audience for the camera. The Red Chinese watch American TV. We watch them watching--and see ourselves.

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Television is America . . . as seen by three visiting graduate students from communist China in the early 1980s. In an innovative first novel Whisnant juxtaposes the fast pace of television and commercial jargon with reflective narrative to depict an America whose inhabitants are both subjects and audience for the camera. The Red Chinese watch American TV. We watch them watching--and see ourselves.

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Imprint

Workman Publishing

Country of origin

United States

Release date

September 1992

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Dimensions

178 x 127 x 30mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

310

ISBN-13

978-0-945575-83-2

Barcode

9780945575832

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LSN

0-945575-83-1



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