」を私が中国TVについての事か2を理解し始めているほとんど「私の共催として月が健康愛した後。 私が頻繁に中国TVについて(同様の中国語および外国人から)低質のプログラミングの完全であることである聞く主要な観察は。 私に今頻繁にインターネットからのアメリカTVショーをダウンロードするよいよ英語の何人かの中国の親友がある。 与えられたときアメリカショーが中国語より優秀物、選択が、決してアメリカの1上の中国TVプログラムを見ないもと言うこと皆明白に私に言われるすべてがある。 全体として中国のテレビ(およびTV)への基づいた自分自身で個人的な限られた露出、私はこの主張と一致する私を言わなければならない。

私がきちんと置くこれをいかにできるか中国TVがなぜ…そうあるか複数の理論があるか。… crappy。 1つは中国の教育が西のそれ程に大いに創造性および芸術を強調しない、これはフィルムおよびテレビ工業によって反映されることであり。 この声明へ真実の間、私は考えるただ表すことを 困惑の部分。 もう一つの要因は中国TV/film工業の相対的な青年である。 企業自体はその若者の間、許可された三十年、唯一のTVおよびフィルムだけ前に共産党を賞賛するそれらがあった見通しに入らなければならない。

しかし私が中国でプログラムする質の厳しい欠乏のために見つけているもう一つの理由は人材銀行の大きい希薄である。 Much of this is because the Chinese media is still runs essentially like a 单位 (danwei), the old work units which were the building blocks of Socialism. While private enterprise is rapidly rendering the concept of a danwei job obsolete, government offices, schools, public hospitals, and the media all still operate under the old danwei system. What this means is endless levels of hierarchy, webs of bureaucracy, and at the very top cadres with leather day planners who don’t seem to do any actual work, but somehow have the highest salaries and the personal drivers.

Chinese TV operates under this system. Chinese TV has 3 levels: Central Television (CCTV) which is based out of Beijing, provincial television, and city television. CCTV is available all over China. Provincial channels are usually available regionally (i.e. Fujian Provincial TV in most Southeastern provinces, as well as most major cities), and local channels are typically only available in the cities they are broadcast from.

Unlike the US however, where local stations are typically only responsible for local news, in China local stations are often responsible for their own programming. Because of this, production, directing, and acting talent are all spread around the country, rather than being focused on several major TV networks, and then syndicated across the country. Consider my show as an example. My co-host, Zheng Zheng, is only one year out of college. She is attractive, speaks perfect Mandarin, and does a decent job reporting news with me on “I Love Health.” However, she is probably one of several thousand, and would not stand a chance compared to the announcers on CCTV. Then there is Ting Ting who writes and directs all of our material. Ting Ting does an excellent job preparing the material, and coaching Zheng Zheng and my performance. However, she just graduated college this spring…with an advertising degree…and she is the writer for a TV show. I know friends in the US who studied screen writing 4 years in college, waited tables in Hollywood another 4, and still never got their chance to write anything. Then of course there is me. Granted I speak Chinese, but so do several tens of thousands of other foreigners in China. I think I do a moderately decent job overall as an announcer, but there is no chance I would be on TV if shows if they were all centralized, even accounting for the fact I am a Westerner.

When you consider how dispersed the talent is over China, it starts to become clear why programming is so sub-par. The last two shows I was a contestant on, SuperMe and Superstar were both ripoffs of the famous Hunan TV show Super Girls, which is the famous Chinese clone of American Idol. They were both were produced by Fujian provincial TV, yet had no local connection to Fujian. Instead, they were just another one of the several hundred American Idol ripoffs currently in production in China. I can’t help but posit that if TV were centralized, and they rounded up all of the best talent from the hundreds of stations across the country, held try-outs, and began production with a top-notch staff, the quality would vastly improve. Instead, what we are stuck with are hundreds of small local TV stations, all producing their own redundant clones of the same TV shows.

Personally, I sense that a big reason TV centralization has yet to occur is because it would necessitate a restructuring of the system. This would require firing a great deal of the TV deadweight (cadres) as well as trimming down the personnel to only the best the country has to offer. This would not bode well with most of the people who would have the power to bring about such a change, and also would stand to cause considerable “instability,” the ultimate pet peeve of the CCP. Until this happens, we are probably stuck with the same stagnant programming.