Identity, Space, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Northeast China

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Zhen Troy Chen, Jiawen Han, Xianwen Kuang, Xi Liu

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This edited volume is first of its kind to document and critically analyse the changes took place snice China’s opening-up and reform and its impact on Dongbei, China’s North-East region, known for its remote and vast landscape, unique and othered culture, rich resources, mighty infrastructures and industries, geopolitical significance. Through presenting up-to-date and multidimensional case studies, the book covers three major aspects of Dongbei, which put people at the heart of our scholarly focus, namely people’s mediated life through traditional and new media; people’s social, cultural, and living spaces; artistic and fictional representations of people’s everyday life.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-01-04
Mått148 x 210 x 22 mm
Vikt523 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor294
Upplaga24001
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789819945290

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Zhen Troy Chen, PhD (Nottingham), FHEA, Senior Lecturer in Media, School of Communication and Creativity, City, University of London.Jiawen Han, PhD (NSWS), FHEA, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Design School, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.Xianwen Kuang, PhD (SDU), FHEA, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communication, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.Xi Liu, PhD (HKU), FHEA, Associate Professor, Department of China Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.

Part 1: Media representation and identity.- Chapter 1. The myth of Dongbei in the news: A quantitative analysis of Northeast China’s news media representations (Xianwen KUANG and Kuangjian WU, XJTLU).- Chapter 2. A Mirror between Two Cities: Postmodern Life of My Aunt (Ming REN, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences) .- Chapter 3. Suspense, Space and Subaltern Identity in three Dongbei Writers’ Crime Stories (Xuying Yu and Xi Liu) .- Chapter 4. Language, dialect and humour: Zhao Benshan, regional stereotypes and discrimination (Lan GE, Nottingham Ningbo and Zhen Troy CHEN, UAL) .- Chapter 5.The Ecological Re-conception of Time and Space: Harbin in Chi Zijian’s Fictional Works (Shuo Han, XJTLU).- Part 2: The reinstitution, economic struggle and space.- Chapter 6. Taking typo-morphological evolution as a lens: An economic and societal review of the transformation of urban areas in Dalian (Han WANG, Donghua University) .- Chapter 7. Female factory workers’ use of mobile phones: Walling outof the physical space of a factory compound (Xin PEI, Nottingham Ningbo) .- Chapter 8. Sentiment, Morality and the Vulnerable Rhetoric of Saving China: “Kingly Way” Manchukuo and the Aestheticization of the Nation (Yuji Xu, CityUHK).- Part 3: Living in Dongbei everyday life.- Chapter 9. Discourses on Minzu and ethnicity: Sibo living as outsiders and minorities in Dongbei (Lei HAO, Nottingham Ningbo) .- Chapter 10. Old country folks, sharp young lads and talented large women: Dongbei’s micro-celebrities on social media platforms under the discourse of Dongbei Renaissance (Zhen Troy Chen, Kuang, Liu, Han) .- Chapter 11. Affective reflection on Dalian People’s Stadium as a place in a densified memory of football and everyday life (Jiawen HAN, XJTLU).