Characters and Historical Facts: An Aesthetic Analysis of the Modern Chinese Historical Television Drama the Age of Awakening

Ruolan Gao

doi:10.54097/rjbbyz25

Authors

Ruolan Gao

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/rjbbyz25

Keywords:

Chinese history, TV play, The Age of Awakening, Aesthetic analysis

Abstract

The Age of Awakening is a historical drama with strong Chinese aesthetic characteristics, embodying the rigor of historical themes, the artistry of TV drama works and the poetry of Chinese aesthetics. Through the research of close reading of TV drama texts, this article found that in terms of TV drama texts, the drama constructs a realistic and artistically infectious pseudo-environment by carefully shaping symbolic historical characters and reproducing historical events with symbolic significance; In terms of aesthetic experience, an aesthetic pathway between subject and object has been established, creating a possible space for aesthetic consumption and achieving multi-level experiential perception. This article argues that the film and television adaptation of history should achieve a balance between the authenticity of historical texts and the artistic quality of film and television texts. Through a sound historical and aesthetic perspective, it can reveal historical facts and the hidden historical laws behind them.

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