A Comparative Approach to Redefining Chinese-ness in the Era of Globalization

A Comparative Approach to Redefining Chinese-ness in the Era of Globalization
Author: Anbin Shi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2003
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Current issues of identity crisis and reconceptualizing "Chinese-ness" are brought to the fore by "marginalized literati" through books and subcultures, contends Shi (media and cultural studies, Tsinghua U., China), surveying Chinese bestsellers, officially banned books and films, popular music, and broadcast and print advertising. Of central concern to Shi are the ongoing encounters between the global and the local in the formation of class, gender, ethnic, societal, and cultural identities. Contemporary critical theory informs his approach as he attempts to analyze the links between Chinese identity and Chinese "globalized" postmodernity. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

A Comparative Approach to Redefining Chinese-ness in the Era of Globalization

A Comparative Approach to Redefining Chinese-ness in the Era of Globalization
Author: Anbin Shi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2003
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Current issues of identity crisis and reconceptualizing "Chinese-ness" are brought to the fore by "marginalized literati" through books and subcultures, contends Shi (media and cultural studies, Tsinghua U., China), surveying Chinese bestsellers, officially banned books and films, popular music, and broadcast and print advertising. Of central concern to Shi are the ongoing encounters between the global and the local in the formation of class, gender, ethnic, societal, and cultural identities. Contemporary critical theory informs his approach as he attempts to analyze the links between Chinese identity and Chinese "globalized" postmodernity. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

China and the International Order

China and the International Order
Author: Michael J. Mazarr
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2018-05-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1977400825

As economic power diffuses across more countries and China becomes more dependent on the world economy, Chinese leaders are being forced to abandon their largely passive approach to global governance. This report analyzes China’s interests and behavior to evaluate both the recent history of its interactions with the postwar international order and possible future trajectories. It also draws implications from that analysis for future U.S. policy.

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture
Author: Edward Lawrence Davis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 1158
Release: 2005
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 041577716X

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Sovereignty at the Edge

Sovereignty at the Edge
Author: Cathryn H. Clayton
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 168417497X

"How have conceptions and practices of sovereignty shaped how Chineseness is imagined? This ethnography addresses this question through the example of Macau, a southern Chinese city that was a Portuguese colony from the 1550s until 1999. As the Portuguese administration prepared to transfer Macau to Chinese control, it mounted a campaign to convince the city’s residents, 95 percent of whom identified as Chinese, that they possessed a “unique cultural identity” that made them different from other Chinese, and that resulted from the existence of a Portuguese state on Chinese soil. This attempt sparked reflections on the meaning of Portuguese governance that challenged not only conventional definitions of sovereignty but also conventional notions of Chineseness as a subjectivity common to all Chinese people around the world. Various stories about sovereignty and Chineseness and their interrelationship were told in Macau in the 1990s. This book is about those stories and how they informed the lives of Macau residents in ways that allowed different relationships among sovereignty, subjectivity, and culture to become thinkable, while also providing a sense of why, at times, it may not be desirable to think them."

Operatic China

Operatic China
Author: D. Lei
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2016-09-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137061634

In this study Lei focuses on the notion of 'performing Chinese' in traditional opera in the 'contact zones', where two or more cultures, ethnicities, and/or ideologies meet and clash. This work seeks to create discourse among theatre and performance studies, Asian and Asian American studies, and transnational and diasporic studies.

Migration, Indigenization And Interaction: Chinese Overseas And Globalization

Migration, Indigenization And Interaction: Chinese Overseas And Globalization
Author: Leo Suryadinata
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2011-06-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9814458260

The twelve chapters included in this book address various issues related to Chinese migration, indigenization and exchange with special reference to the era of globalization. As the waves of Chinese migration started in the last century, the emphasis, not surprisingly, is placed on the “migrant states” rather than “indigenous states”. Nevertheless, many chapters are also concerned with issues of “settling down” and “becoming part of the local scenes”. However, the settling/integrating process has been interrupted by a globalizing world, new Chinese migration and the rise of China at the end of 20th century.

China's Media Go Global

China's Media Go Global
Author: Daya Kishan Thussu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2017-11-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317214617

As part of its ‘going out’ strategy, China is using the media to promote its views and vision to the wider world and to counter negative images in the US-dominated international media. China’s Media Go Global, the first edited collection on this subject, evaluates how the unprecedented expansion of Chinese media and communications is changing the global media landscape and the role of China within it. Each chapter examines a different dimension of Chinese media’s globalization, from newspapers, radio, film and television, to social media and journalism. Topics include the rise of Chinese news networks, China Daily as an instrument of China’s public diplomacy and the discussion around the growth of China’s state media in Africa. Other chapters discuss entertainment television, financial media and the advertising market in China. Together, this collection of essays offers a comprehensive evaluation of complex debates concerning the impact of China on the international media landscape, and makes a distinctive addition to Chinese media studies, as well as to broader global media discourses. Beyond its primary readership among academics and students, China’s Media Go Global is aimed at the growing constituency of general readers, for whom the role of the media in globalization is of wider interest.

The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century

The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century
Author: Bonnie S. McDougall
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 526
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780231110846

The written culture of 20th-century China has only recently begun to receive sustained attention from Western readers and critics. This book presents illuminating information on writers, audiences, and the impact of various literary works on politics and culture--and provides a unique window on Chinese society.

The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature

The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature
Author: Li-hua Ying
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1461731879

The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. It offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature.