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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Post-Mao China"”.
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Sinological-Orientalism: The Production of the West's Post -Mao China
… of orientalism, I draw on Marxist and post-colonial theory in an inter-disciplinary analysis of several fields. These include Area Studies work on the Mao and 'reform' eras, from the Great Leap Forward famine to the 1989 Tiananmen event and beyond; the reception of new Chinese cinema …
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Media reform and democratization in post-Mao China : a television case study
… a twofold theme governing the whole process of post-Mao media development. Therefore, its adopted policies and strategies, institutional transactions, media performance, structural changes and the ways of delivering resources and increasing productivity, have all been conducted and constrained …
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Crafting socialism with Chinese characteristics: Modernization and ideology in post-Mao China
… truths of Marxism with the realities of China"". A new ideology was needed to explain the CCP's drive for modernization and underwrite the Party's right to rule. The Party leadership provided the intellectuals with the ideological space and sanctuary in which to forge the new ideology. …
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Changing the past to build the future : history education in post-Mao China
… past quarter century in the People's Republic of China. One of the key objectives of this research has been simply to redress previous neglect of a subject that seems, if public opinion is indicative of a topic's importance, to have some bearing on the ways in which states and societies try to …
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Trip down memory lane : revisiting red classics as television drama in post - Mao China
In the post-Mao era, the boundaries of the Red Classics, the canonical Chinese socialist literary and theatrical works, and the values and aesthetics they promoted were transgressed. By adopting the “circuit of cultures” as a methodology, this thesis explicates how a canonical body of texts created …
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The "sent-down" vision: poetics and politics of Zhiqing literature in post-Mao China
… contributed an important alternative voice in post-Mao China’s modernity discourse. Zhiqing refers to the millions of urban junior high and high school students who were “sent down to the countryside” to settle as peasants during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). Following their return to the …
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Politics of Tranquility: Religious Mobilities and Material Engagements of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao China
… leading center of Tibetan Buddhist revivalism in post-Mao China. Over 10,000 nuns make up the vast majority of the permanent residents in this community (approximately 2,000 monks live there as well), but few scholarly discussions have taken place regarding the lives and practices of the nuns in …
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The impact of marketisation on higher education in post-Mao China, with case studies of universities in Yunnan Province
… half to the rapid change of higher education in China, this thesis demonstrates how hybrid governance can be analysed through an incentive approach which focuses on reducing state authority, enhancing academic power and creating market rewards. The research findings show that the Chinese …
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Gao Xingjian and Chinese experimental theatre
… a leading Chinese experimental dramatist in post-Mao China, and his zealous search for an alternative theatre in the 1980s. Acclaimed by critics both in China and overseas as the Chinese counterpart of European innovators of avant-garde theatre, Gao has exerted a great impact on the …
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Creative networks in Guanxi Land: a study of social networking related to Shanghai Expo 2010
Entering the twentieth-first century, post-Mao China continues its considerable transformation. The central theme of this research lies in the examination of social networking through a case study of Shanghai Expo 2010. It is an analysis of the forms of networking in the formation of Shanghai as a …
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Rural men in urban China: masculinity and identity formation of male peasant workers
… workers’ identity formation in contemporary post-Mao China. It is a qualitative study of 28 male peasant workers. Adopting an interpretivist perspective, this thesis uses a multi-method approach, including life histories, ethnography and discourse analysis. A primary purpose is to address the …
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Kaili, the homeland of 100 festivals: Space, music, and sound in a small city
… social space in Kaili, a small city in southwest China, through its branding as “the homeland of one hundred festivals”, inhabitants’ conceptualizations of music, amateur music-making practices, and the construction of the built environment. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre's triad of social space as a …
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Political Economy of Village Governance in Contemporary China
Rural development and transformation in post-Mao China is one of the most remarkable scenarios in transition countries. With the dismantlement of collectivized farming and the rural reforms since the late 1970s, villages have become diverse in terms of institutional structure. In some villages, one …
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The Minzu Debate: Policy Subsystem, Knowledge Community, and Academic Discourse in Post-Mao China’s Ethnic Policy-Making
… in policy fields occur under authoritarian China? In this study, I answer this question through a political-sociological investigation of the academic policy debates of the People’s Republic of China about its ethnic minority policy (a.k.a. “minzu policy”) in the Post-Mao period. Building …
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Encountering Globalization: An Ethnographic Study of Women and Television in China
In post-Mao China, television has become an embodiment of struggle and negotiation between diverse forces in society. In the wake of the penetration of global capital and media culture, state discourse and popular culture images have been redefining an ideal Chinese womanhood in the context of …
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Soft Masculinity and Its Discontents in Contemporary China
… billboards and social media platforms in today’s China has attracted scholarly attention. Researchers repeatedly mention keywords such as cultural globalisation, modernisation, consumerism and increasing gender equality as if this is an emerging trend in (mainland) China. The waxing and waning of …
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Popular newspapers in post-Mao Guangzhou: toward a social history of Southern Weekend, 1984-2010
… press within a regional context during the post-Mao reform era. As an extension of the Party press, post-Mao popular newspapers grew from within the Party-state bureaucracies in response to the economic and social reform since the late 1970s and early 1980s. Foregrounded by the history of …