China's Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces

Creativity, Sociality, Identity and Resistance
Herausgeber: Frangville, Vanessa; Gaffric, Gwennaël

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Produktbeschreibung

Presenting the collaborative work of 13 international specialists of contemporary Chinese culture and society, this book explores the spaces of creation, production, and diffusion of "youth cultures" in China among generations born since the 1980s. Defining the concept of "youth culture" as practices and activities that catalyze self-expression and creativity, this book investigates the emergence of new physical spaces, including large avenues, parks, shopping malls, and recreation areas. Building on this, it also examines the influence of non-physical places, especially digital cultures, such as online social networks, shopping platforms, Cosplay, cyberliterature, and digital calligraphy and argues that these may in fact play a more significant role in Chinese civil society today. As an exploration of how youth can be creative even in a coercive environment, China's Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces will be valuable to students and scholars of Chinese society, as well those working on the links between space, youth, and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9781032089676
• ISBN-10: 1032089679
• Artikelnr.: 62151147

Autorenporträt

Vanessa Frangville is Senior Lecturer and Chair holder in Chinese studies at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Director of EASt, ULB's Research Centre on East Asia. Gwennaël Gaffric is currently Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the Université de Lyon, France. He is also translator of Chinese, Hongkongese, and Taiwanese contemporary novels.

Inhaltsangabe

Where Wild Grass Grow: Chinese Youth Culture Formation in Physical and
Virtual Spaces Part 1: Youth culture in Commodified Collective Spaces
1. From Homes to Parks, Shopping Malls and Theatres - Trajectory of Spatial
Swift in Chinese Erciyuan Cosplay Practices 2. From Tian'anmen Square to
Grand Palais in Paris: The Shifting Spirit in the Commodification of Rock
in the PRC 3. Can China have its hip hop? Negotiating the Boundaries
between Mainstream and Underground Youth Cultural Spaces on the Internet
Talent Show Rap of China Part 2: Spaces of Sociability 4. Spaces of Youth
Cultural Production in Rural China 5. The Sociability of Millennials in
Cyberspace: A Comparative Analysis of Barrage Subtitling in Nico Nico Douga
and bilibili 6. Representations of Sociability in Public Spaces in the
Uyghur Web Series Anar Pishti: Resilience, Resistance and Reinvention Part
3: Spaces of Social Engagement 7. Masked Demonstrations: Deploying Creative
Tactics to Protest Air Pollution 8. Chinese LGBT+ Activism - Playing,
Organizing and Playful Resistance 9. Struggling around the politics of
recognition: the formation of communities of interpretations and of
emotions among a collective of migrant workers in 21st Century China Part
4: Traveling in Space-Time 10. Collective Space/Time Travel in Chinese
Cyberliterature 11. Back to the Future with Chinese characteristics: the
case of Han Han's Duckweed retro sci-fi 12. "We are not like the
calligraphers of ancient times". A study of young calligraphy practitioners
in contemporary China Afterthoughts: Rethinking the Spatial Politics of
Presence in China's Youth Culture