William A. Callahan
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199549955
- eISBN:
- 9780191720314
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199549955.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Relations and Politics
Shows how China's pessoptimist identity politics frame historical memory to prime China's angry youth to explode into popular protests when they feel that China is being humiliated. It analyzes how ...
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Shows how China's pessoptimist identity politics frame historical memory to prime China's angry youth to explode into popular protests when they feel that China is being humiliated. It analyzes how the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party uses the grand narrative of the Century of National Humiliation to socialize Chinese people into patriots who must continuously struggle against hostile foreign forces. The Central Propaganda Department thus deliberately deploys the pedagogy of national humiliation as part of its patriotic education policy. This chapter examines Chinese‐language sources from official and popular culture to explain how patriotic education is a moral campaign that teaches people how and what to feel – humiliation, hatred, and revenge are common themes. Long after the Century of National Humiliation ended in 1949, the pessoptimist historical narrative still provides the template that encourages militant Chinese reactions to conflicts both in the present and in the future.Less
Shows how China's pessoptimist identity politics frame historical memory to prime China's angry youth to explode into popular protests when they feel that China is being humiliated. It analyzes how the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party uses the grand narrative of the Century of National Humiliation to socialize Chinese people into patriots who must continuously struggle against hostile foreign forces. The Central Propaganda Department thus deliberately deploys the pedagogy of national humiliation as part of its patriotic education policy. This chapter examines Chinese‐language sources from official and popular culture to explain how patriotic education is a moral campaign that teaches people how and what to feel – humiliation, hatred, and revenge are common themes. Long after the Century of National Humiliation ended in 1949, the pessoptimist historical narrative still provides the template that encourages militant Chinese reactions to conflicts both in the present and in the future.
Louise Edwards and Elaine Jeffreys
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622090873
- eISBN:
- 9789882206670
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622090873.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
Celebrity is a pervasive aspect of everyday life and a growing field of academic inquiry. This is a book-length exploration of celebrity culture in the People's Republic of China and its interaction ...
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Celebrity is a pervasive aspect of everyday life and a growing field of academic inquiry. This is a book-length exploration of celebrity culture in the People's Republic of China and its interaction with international norms of celebrity production. The book comprises case studies from popular culture (film, music, dance, literature, the Internet); official culture (military, political, and moral exemplars) and business celebrities. The breadth of inquiry here illuminates the ways capitalism and communism converge in the elevation of particular individuals to fame in contemporary China.Less
Celebrity is a pervasive aspect of everyday life and a growing field of academic inquiry. This is a book-length exploration of celebrity culture in the People's Republic of China and its interaction with international norms of celebrity production. The book comprises case studies from popular culture (film, music, dance, literature, the Internet); official culture (military, political, and moral exemplars) and business celebrities. The breadth of inquiry here illuminates the ways capitalism and communism converge in the elevation of particular individuals to fame in contemporary China.
Vasudha Dalmia
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195695052
- eISBN:
- 9780199080335
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195695052.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Drama
This chapter discusses and traces the course of folk forms from its first emergence to its transformations into veritable storehouse of indigenous values and essences in the late twentieth century. ...
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This chapter discusses and traces the course of folk forms from its first emergence to its transformations into veritable storehouse of indigenous values and essences in the late twentieth century. The focus of this chapter is on the relationship of urban theatre makers to the folk idiom. Discussed herein are the four stages of the urban relationship to folk theatre: 1) the distancing of dramatists from the folk theatre in the efforts to create a respectable urban theatre; 2) the rediscovery and focus on the performative aspects in the 1940s; 3) the use of folk for urban stage and the partial politicization in the 1960s and 1970s: the adaptation and modification of aesthetics and conventions of Brecht’s theatre; and 4) the appropriation of folk forms by ‘official culture’ accompanied by widespread depoliticization of theatre. The concluding section discusses the developments in the era of liberalization which changed the nature of the inner Indian relationship to the folk traditional forms.Less
This chapter discusses and traces the course of folk forms from its first emergence to its transformations into veritable storehouse of indigenous values and essences in the late twentieth century. The focus of this chapter is on the relationship of urban theatre makers to the folk idiom. Discussed herein are the four stages of the urban relationship to folk theatre: 1) the distancing of dramatists from the folk theatre in the efforts to create a respectable urban theatre; 2) the rediscovery and focus on the performative aspects in the 1940s; 3) the use of folk for urban stage and the partial politicization in the 1960s and 1970s: the adaptation and modification of aesthetics and conventions of Brecht’s theatre; and 4) the appropriation of folk forms by ‘official culture’ accompanied by widespread depoliticization of theatre. The concluding section discusses the developments in the era of liberalization which changed the nature of the inner Indian relationship to the folk traditional forms.
