摘要
The extraordinarydevelopment ofChinese TV dra-mas during China′s re-form and opening tothe outside world hascaught many people′sattention.Since 1986China′s over 500 TVstations have been pro-dueing an average of2000 TV dramas ayear.In 1991 the figurereached 5000,jnclud-ing both one-part playsand TV series.Over1,800 have been shown on ChinaCentral TV.Though TV dramas area new artistic genre in China,theyhave become an important meansfor socialist education and an im-portant form of entertainment forChinese