Abstract:
This thesis is interested in the cultural interpretation presented in the television documentaries. River Elegy (1988) and A Bite of China (2012). These two very different television documentaries share a common theme in terms of the presentation of Chinese culture. By comparing the different ways of displaying Chinese culture in the two documentaries, this thesis attempts to find the factors that influenced these presentations in order to understand how Chinese society had changed over the twenty-four years from 1988 to 2012.
