On China S Cultural Transformation

Author : Haiqing Yu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134062263

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Media and Cultural Transformation in China by Haiqing Yu Pdf

This book examines the role played by the media in China’s cultural transformation in the early years of the 21st century. In contrast to the traditional view that sees the Chinese media as nothing more than a tool of communist propaganda, it demonstrates that the media is integral to China’s changing culture in the age of globalization, whilst also being part and parcel of the State and its project of re-imagining national identity that is essential to the post-socialist reform agenda. It describes how the Party-state can effectively use media events to pull social, cultural and political resources and forces together in the name of national rejuvenation. However, it also illustrates how non-state actors can also use reporting of media events to dispute official narratives and advance their own interests and perspectives. It discusses the implications of this interplay between state and non-state actors in the Chinese media for conceptions of identity, citizenship and ethics, identifying the areas of mutual accommodation and appropriation, as well as those of conflict and contestation. It explores these themes with detailed analysis of four important ‘media spectacles’: the media events surrounding the new millennium celebrations; the news reporting of SARS; the media stories about AIDS and SARS; and the media campaign war between the Chinese state and the Falun Gong movement.

Author : Keping Yu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004308886

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On China’s Cultural Transformation by Keping Yu Pdf

Centering on the cultural transformations of China since late 1970s and covering a diverse of topics in the field, this collection of articles presents a multi-dimensional narrative on the dynamics, dilemmas and characteristics involving this giant process.

Author : Tianlong Jiao
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781934043165

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The Neolithic of Southeast China by Tianlong Jiao Pdf

Leading archaeologist Tianlong Jiao takes readers on an archaeological investigation into the patterns and processes involved in the cultural changes on the coast of Southeast China during the Neolithic period. (Archeology/Anthropology)

Author : Keping Yu
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9004308873

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On China's Cultural Transformation by Keping Yu Pdf

Centering on the cultural transformations of China since late 1970s and covering a diverse of topics in the field, this collection of articles presents a multi-dimensional narrative on the dynamics, dilemmas and characteristics involving this giant process.

Author : Yunzhi Geng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783662445907

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An Introductory Study on China's Cultural Transformation in Recent Times by Yunzhi Geng Pdf

This book examines in detail the basic trajectory of the cultural transformation and brings to light the extrinsic conditions and intrinsic mechanisms involved. It focuses on the period from after the Opium Wars to the New Culture Movement, as the New Culture Movement can be considered a pivotal phase in the cultural transformation of modern-day China. The New Culture Movement was a revolutionary eruption triggered by the accumulation of all the new qualitative cultural factors since the Opium Wars. Superficially, the movement’s goal seemed to be to overthrow the traditional culture. But in essence its true objective was to conduct an overall “screening” of that culture. The book elaborates a broad variety of points in this context, including: the ideological and cultural evolution following the Opium Wars; the pressing challenges faced by “Zhong Ti”; the initial shaping of social, public and cultural spaces and major trends in ideological and cultural transformation at the end of the Qing Dynasty; the political disarray and conflicts between the new and old ideology in the first years of the Republic; the rise of the New Culture Movement; and the role of conservatism in the transition to a modern culture.

Author : Colin Hawes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136311178

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The Chinese Transformation of Corporate Culture by Colin Hawes Pdf

In recent years, Chinese policymakers and corporate leaders have focused significant attention on the concept of corporate culture. This book will reveal the political, social and economic factors behind the enormous current interest in corporate culture in China and provide a wide range of case studies that focus on how large corporations like Haier, Huawei and Mengniu have attempted to transform their cultures, and how they represent themselves as complying with the Chinese government’s interpretation of "positive" corporate culture. Hawes demonstrates how the foreign concept of corporate culture has been re-defined in China to fit the Chinese political, social and cultural context. He examines how this re-definition of corporate culture reflects a uniquely Chinese conception of the purposes and social functions of the capitalist business corporation and how the Chinese Communist Party’s active promotion of "socialist" corporate culture evidences a shift in the Party’s identity towards a business-friendly champion of corporate and economic development. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian Studies, Business and Management and Chinese studies.

Author : Jana S. Rošker,Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443867726

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Modernisation of Chinese Culture by Jana S. Rošker,Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik Pdf

The editors are grateful to the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for its generous support of their research work which enabled them to publish the present book. The present book carefully maps the Chinese modernisation discourse, highlighting its relationship to other, similar discourses, and situating it within historical and theoretical contexts. In contrast to the majority of recent discussions of a “Chinese development model” that tend to focus more on institutional then cultural factors, and are more narrowly concerned with economic matters than overall social development, the book offers several important focal points for many presently overlooked issues and dilemmas. The multifaceted perspectives contained in this anthology are not limited to economic, social, and ecological issues, but also include political and social functions of ideologies and cultural conditioned values, representing the axial epistemological grounds of modern Chinese society. 2011 was the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution. The centennial is relevant not only in terms of state ideology, but also plays a significant role within academic research into Chinese society and culture. This historic turning point likewise represents the symbolic and concrete linkages and tensions between tradition and modernity, progress and conservatism, traditional values and the demands for adjustment to contemporary societies. The book shows that Chinese transition from tradition to modernity cannot be understood in a framework of a unified general model of society, but rather through a more complex insight into the interrelations among elements of physical environment, social structure, philosophy, history, and culture.

Author : Chun-shu Chang,Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : China
ISBN : 047208528X

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Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-century China by Chun-shu Chang,Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang Pdf

Describes the social and cultural transformation of seventeenth-century China through the life and work of Li Yu

Author : Shang Wei
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170432

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Rulin waishi and Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial China by Shang Wei Pdf

Rulin waishi (The Unofficial History of the Scholars) is more than a landmark in the history of the Chinese novel. This eighteenth-century work, which was deeply embedded in the intellectual and literary discourses of its time, challenges the reader to come to grips with the mid-Qing debates over ritual and ritualism, and the construction of history, narrative, and lyricism. Wu Jingzi’s (1701–54) ironic portrait of literati life was unprecedented in its comprehensive treatment of the degeneration of mores, the predicaments of official institutions, and the Confucian elite’s futile struggle to reassert moral and cultural authority. Like many of his fellow literati, Wu found the vernacular novel an expressive and malleable medium for discussing elite concerns. Through a close reading of Rulin waishi, Shang Wei seeks to answer such questions as What accounts for the literati’s enthusiasm for writing and reading novels? Does this enthusiasm bespeak a conscious effort to develop a community of critical discourse outside the official world? Why did literati authors eschew publication? What are the bases for their social and cultural criticisms? How far do their criticisms go, given the authors’ alleged Confucianism? And if literati authors were interested solely in recovering moral and cultural hegemony for their class, how can we explain the irony found in their works?

Author : Haiqing Yu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134062270

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Media and Cultural Transformation in China by Haiqing Yu Pdf

This book examines the role played by the media in China’s ongoing cultural transformation. It demonstrates that the media is integral to China’s changing culture in the age of globalization, whilst also being part and parcel of the State and its project of re-imagining national identity.

Author : Roderick MACFARQUHAR,Michael Schoenhals
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674040410

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Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MACFARQUHAR,Michael Schoenhals Pdf

Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.

Author : Adam McKeown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0226560244

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Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change by Adam McKeown Pdf

Inspired by recent work on diaspora and cultural globalization, Adam McKeown asks in this new book: How were the experiences of different migrant communities and hometowns in China linked together through common networks? Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change argues that the political and economic activities of Chinese migrants can best be understood by taking into account their links to each other and China through a transnational perspective. Despite their very different histories, Chinese migrant families, businesses, and villages were connected through elaborate networks and shared institutions that stretched across oceans and entire continents. Through small towns in Qing and Republican China, thriving enclaves of businesses in South Chicago, broad-based associations of merchants and traders in Peru, and an auspicious legacy of ancestors in Hawaii, migrant Chinese formed an extensive system that made cultural and commercial exchange possible.

Author : Maggie Greene
Publisher : China Understandings Today
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472054305

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Resisting Spirits by Maggie Greene Pdf

Even amidst the Maoist era's politicized cultural production, culture workers continued to adapt traditional theatre to create bold new statements

Author : Tian Yu Cao,Xueping Zhong,Liao Kebin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047428619

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Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China by Tian Yu Cao,Xueping Zhong,Liao Kebin Pdf

Leading scholars examine the interplay between the ideological reorientation and radical social changes in contemporary China in terms of the interpretation, appropriation and mobilization of three major cultural resources (traditional, May Fourth, and socialist) by various social groups.

Author : East-West Center
Publisher : Honolulu : Published for the East-West Center by the University Press of Hawaii
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015000036668

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Moving a Mountain by East-West Center Pdf