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Chinese Radio Drama and its Ideological Dimension
Križan, Jan ; Hudeček, Jiří (advisor) ; Lomová, Olga (referee)
This thesis aims to introduce the Chinese radio play (guangboju 广播剧) as an understudied genre in the West, which nevertheless deserves attention, especially because of its substantial ideological aspect. This genre has undergone tumultuous developments in the last thirty years, mainly due to the transition of the Chinese economy to a market economy. In response, radio plays have fragmented into two main branches - commercial plays, which are to this day still struggling to survive in the environment of the market economy, and ideological plays, which are an expedient product of the Chinese government's propaganda. These plays, which are the focal point of this thesis, are produced mainly for the purpose of participation in national-level government competitions, in particular the Project 5+1 (Wu ge yi gongcheng 五个一工程) competition, where their ideological merit is appraised. In order to introduce plays of this nature, the thesis analyses radio plays broadcast in 2021 on the leading state-owned radio station Voice of China (Zhongguo zhi sheng 中国之声) featuring poverty alleviation themes (fupin 扶贫), which has been one of the dominant themes of thematic radio plays since 2015, when the China-wide "Targeted Poverty Alleviation" (Jingzhun fupin 精准扶贫) campaign was officially launched. In addition to this...
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Xiangsheng in PRC: from a tool of the New China Ideology to social satire
Križan, Jan ; Lomová, Olga (advisor) ; Zádrapa, Lukáš (referee)
Xiangsheng is a humorous narrative genre based on satire and social commentary. Nowadays, it is considered the most significant representative of a group of traditional popular arts called quyi 曲艺. The bachelor thesis focuses on the so-called dialogical xiangsheng (duikou xiangsheng 对 口 相声), which is performed by two artistes. The main points of interest are the 1950s, when xiangsheng was used for propaganda of the new regime, and the period since the year 2005, when the most prominent contemporary xiangsheng artiste Guo Degang 郭德纲 (1973-) revived the tradition and brought xiangsheng back to the peak of popularity. The aim of the work is a comparative study of xiangsheng pieces from these two socio-culturally very different periods, especially by the means of formal and content analysis of xiangsheng "Night Ride" (Yexing ji 夜 行记), which is represented by a version from the 1950s and another version adapted by Guo Degang. As for the 1950s, the work presents a closer background regarding the emergence of xiangsheng pieces, particularly the way they were used for state propaganda purposes. Furthermore, the work focuses on the background of the origin of Guo Degang's xiangsheng art, and also on Guo Degang himself, as an anti-system artist, who utilizes his work as a means to satirically comment the...
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