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Exploring Pathways to Adulthood
Through examining the life-course of the cohorts born post-1950s and post-1980s, this fifth chapter reveals a substantial extension in the duration... -
Boys’ Love (BL) Literacy Products Consumption as Leisure and its Impact on perceptions of LGBTQ+ People: a Case Study of the Chinese BL Fan Community in North America
This case study investigate show Chinese Boys’ Love (BL) fans in North America construct fandom based on their consumption of BL literacy products...
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Introduction: Popular Visual Culture in Film, Theatre and TV Drama
Applying the theories of Popular Culture, Visual Culture, Performance Studies, (Post) Feminism, and Film Studies, this new monograph proposes to... -
The Reconfigured Narratives of Class and Gender in Representing Social Changes: From the Full-Length Novel to the Television Series of A Lifelong Journey
Adapted from contemporary Chinese writer Liang **aosheng’s award-winning novel, the epic series A Lifelong Journey has proven to be a phenomenally... -
The divisiveness of Chinese identities in Singapore
In July 2019, the Jamestown Foundation, an American think tank, published a report accusing China of imposing a Chinese identity onto Singapore...
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The growth of Soviet music in the scope of Chinese cinema in the early period of the establishment of New China: an example of the interlude “Oh, the snowball tree is in blossom” in the film and television works of Ivan Perilyev
In the early days of the founding of New China, there was an international situation with close political contact between China and the Soviet Union....
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Suzhi Discourse as a Structural Component of Institutionalized Individualism in Post-Maoist China
This third chapter sheds light on how the State’s discourse on population “quality” (suzhi) represents a sophisticated means of governance from afar.... -
Social Change Variables in the Rhetoric of the Chinese “Belt & Road Initiative”
This chapter contrasts the current Chinese “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) against the opening of the US west in the nineteenth century using... -
Nostalgia in Youth Media So Young (2013) and With You (2016)
This chapter examines nostalgic screen culture as expressed in the youthyouth film So Young (2013) and the Internet drama With You (2016). Both of... -
A local English: not Chinglish but China English: evidence from Chinese university English classrooms
Local varieties of English within different sociolinguistic realities, especially those in the “expanding circle,” have been a contemporary issue...
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The Universality of Humor
As an artist who has “walked back and forth between the Chinese and Western cultures for many years,” Rowswell shares his thoughts on the... -
The sounds of modernity in Chinese pop music
In 1940 the Chinese hit "Rose, Rose, I Love You" was released by Pathé Records in Shanghai and subsequently remade into numerous cover songs outside...
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Seventy years of study on ethnic paleography in China
This paper systematically presents the development process of studying ancient Chinese ethnic scripts over the past seven decades since the founding...
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The Influence of the Development of Transmedia Fiction on the Traditional Publishing Industry
One of the crucial reasons why transmedia fictions has become popular in China is that it has established a complete set of operation modes. In an...
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Chinese Social Governance Modes
This chapter mainly discusses the main ways of social governance by expounding the connotation, functions, and forms of four kinds of governance,... -
Conclusion
This monograph applies the theories to interpreting (musical) theatre, films, and TV drama. Chapter 2... -
Globalizing the sociology of the arts and culture: East Asian perspectives
In this editorial, I argue for a globalized sociology of the arts and culture that transcends West-centered theories and practices. To this end, two...
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Theatre, Performance, and Popular Story of Yanxi Palace
By the theories of Performance Studies, (Post)-Feminism, and Popular Culture, this book chapter uses Chinese TV drama soap opera Story of Yanxi... -
Everything’s going according to Plan(demic): a cultural sociological approach to conspiracy theorizing
In this article, I examine the case of a viral film entitled “Plandemic,” its sequel, and the epidemiologist that is its main subject, and develop a...