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Gilded Voices

Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta since 1949

By: Qiliang He

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Gilded Voices

Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta since 1949

By: Qiliang He

In Gilded Voices: Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta since 1949, Qiliang He pieces together published, archival, and oral history sources to explore the role of the cultural market in mediating between the state and artists in the PRC era. By focusing on pingtan, a storytelling art using the Suzhou dialect, the book documents both the state’s efforts to police artists and their repertoire and storytellers’ collaboration with, as well as resistance to, state supervision and intervention. The book thereby challenges long-held scholarly assumptions about the Chinese Communist Party’s success in politicizing popular culture, patronizing artists, abolishing the cultural market, and enforcing rigid censorship in Mao’s times.

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9004232443

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9789004232440

Newspapers and the Journalistic Public in Republican China

1917 as a Significant Year of Journalism

By: Qiliang He

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Newspapers and the Journalistic Public in Republican China

1917 as a Significant Year of Journalism

By: Qiliang He

Offering an entirely new approach to understanding China’s journalism history, this book covers the Chinese periodical press in the first half of the twentieth century. By focusing on five cases, either occurring in or in relation to the year 1917, this book emphasizes the protean nature of the newspaper and seeks to challenge a press historiography which suggests modern Chinese newspapers were produced and consumed with clear agendas of popularizing enlightenment, modernist, and revolutionary concepts. Instead, this book contends that such a historiography, which is premised on the classification of newspapers along the lines of their functions, overlooks the opaqueness of the Chinese press in the early twentieth century. Analyzing modern Chinese history through the lens of the newspaper, this book presents an interdisciplinary and international approach to studying mass communications. As such, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Chinese history, journalism, and Asian Studies more generally.

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Routledge

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0429796692

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Working the System

Motion Picture, Filmmakers, and Subjectivities in Mao-Era China, 1949–1966

By: Qiliang He

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Working the System

Motion Picture, Filmmakers, and Subjectivities in Mao-Era China, 1949–1966

By: Qiliang He

In Working the System: Motion Picture, Filmmakers, and Subjectivities in Mao-Era China, 1949–1966, Qiliang He inquired into the making of the new citizenry in Mao-era China (1949–1976) by studying five preeminent Shanghai-based filmmakers. These case studies shed light on how individuals’ subjectivities took shape in the cinematic arena under a new sociopolitical system after 1949. He suggests that a filmmaker’s subjectivity was not fixed or stable but constantly in flux, requiring a host of “subjectivizing practices” to (re)shape and consolidate it. These filmmakers endeavored to reap maximal benefits from Mao’s sociopolitical system and minimize the disadvantages that would make them victims under the system. In short, Qiliang He argues that the filmmakers not only worked under the socialist system imposed upon them but also worked the system in their best interests. “Through five chosen filmmakers’ creative control and their negotiation of their professional status within China’s newly adopted socialist system, the author presents a compelling case that illustrates how individual filmmakers constantly adjusted themselves professionally and ideologically to survive in a fast-changing industry and a highly politicized society.” —Lin Feng, University of Leicester “This book is a strong example of how much more we can learn about Mao-era Chinese culture if we approach it less as alien due to Cold War prejudices and instead think of artists as creating under professional constraints in China just as they do everywhere.” —Jason McGrath, University of Minnesota

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Hong Kong University Press

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9888805606

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The People's West Lake

Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao's China, 1949-1976

By: Qiliang He

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The People's West Lake

Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao's China, 1949-1976

By: Qiliang He

The People's West Lake examines the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) efforts to reconfigure Hangzhou's urban space, alter the natural environment in West Lake (Xihu), and refashion the city's culture in post-1949 China. It pieces together five initiatives between the 1950s and the 1970s: the dredging of the lake, the construction of the public park of Watching Fish at the Flower Harbor (Huagang guanyu), the afforestation movement, the development of collectivized pig farming around West Lake, and the two campaigns to remove lakeside tombs. These projects were intended to generate visible and tangible results--a lake with a good depth, a scenic public garden, greener hills surrounding the lake, a growing swine population and rising productivity of fertilizer, and a tourist site cleansed of burial grounds--while also being readily subject to the Party's propaganda. These initiatives were designed both to achieve economic, cultural, and ecological utilities and to forge and popularize a sense of socialist nationhood. The CCP's endeavor to fundamentally transform the West Lake area also opened up possibilities for both human and nonhuman actors to variously benefit from, get along with, and undermine the political authorities' planning. This book thus emphatically foregrounds and unifies the agency of both humans and nonhuman entities that are not necessarily tied to intentionality, bringing into question the legitimacy of the human/nonhuman binary. Author Qiliang He explores the agency of both humans and nonhumans (including water, microbes, aquatic plants, the park, pigs, trees, pests, and tombs) to affect, deflect, and undercut the CCP's sociopolitical programs, thereby diminishing the efficacy of state propaganda. Highlighting the nonpurposive agency of both actors problematizes the long-held resistance-accommodation paradigm, which presumes the resisters' a priori subjectivities independent of the socialist system, in studying the state-society relationship in the People's Republic of China. Using a project-based approach, The People's West Lake gives the nature-human relationship in Mao's China (best known as Mao's "war against nature") historical and cultural specificities to reexamine the PRC regime's central planning and the issues related to it.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824896912

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Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China

The Case of the Huang-Lu Elopement

By: Qiliang He

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Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China

The Case of the Huang-Lu Elopement

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Feminism, Women’s Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China focuses on a sensational elopement in the Yangzi Delta in the late 1920s to explore how middle- and lower-class members of society gained access to and appropriated otherwise alien and abstract enlightenment theories and idioms about love, marriage, and family. Via a network of communications that connected people of differing socioeconomic and educational backgrounds, non-elite women were empowered to display their new womanhood and thereby exercise their self-activating agency to mount resistance to China’s patriarchal system. Qiliang He’s text also investigates the proliferation of anti-feminist conservatisms in legal practice, scholarly discourses, media, and popular culture in the early Nanjing Decade (1927-1937). Utilizing a framework of interdisciplinary scholarship, this book traverses various fields such as legal history, women’s history, popular culture/media studies, and literary studies to explore urban discourse and communication in 1920s China.

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Springer

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331989692X

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Sociology of Law

A Study of Cultural Contextualism

By: Qiliang Wang

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Sociology of Law

A Study of Cultural Contextualism

By: Qiliang Wang

This book, based on extensive ethnographic material, analyzes the complex relationships between the law and various social controls, helping to answer the question of how social order is formed. Formal law exists in a web of complex structures and meanings. Accordingly, legal study must take into account multiple types of order, allowing us to understand in depth the strengths and weaknesses, reasonable and absurdity, and successes and failures of the law. In addition, the interactions of numerous actors shape the structure and context of the law. Exploring these aspects—while also highlighting diverse informal/non-state norms that influence day-to-day social practices, and which have never been replaced by modern laws—the book offers an insightful resource for all readers who are interested in the practice of Chinese law or in the connections between culture, society, and the law.

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Springer Nature

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981165509X

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9789811655098

Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China

The Case of the Huang-Lu Elopement

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The Case of the Huang-Lu Elopement

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Newspapers and the Journalistic Public in Republican China

1917 as a Significant Year of Journalism

By: Qiliang He

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1917 as a Significant Year of Journalism

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Gilded Voices

Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta since 1949

By: Qiliang He

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Gilded Voices

Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta since 1949

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The People’s West Lake

Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao’s China, 1949–1976

By: Qiliang He

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Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao’s China, 1949–1976

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The People’s West Lake examines the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to reconfigure Hangzhou’s urban space, alter the natural environment in West Lake (Xihu), and refashion the city’s culture in post-1949 China. It pieces together five initiatives between the 1950s and the 1970s: the dredging of the lake, the construction of the public park of Watching Fish at the Flower Harbor (Huagang guanyu), the afforestation movement, the development of collectivized pig farming around West Lake, and the two campaigns to remove lakeside tombs. These projects were intended to generate visible and tangible results—a lake with a good depth, a scenic public garden, greener hills surrounding the lake, a growing swine population and rising productivity of fertilizer, and a tourist site cleansed of burial grounds—while also being readily subject to the Party’s propaganda. These initiatives were designed both to achieve economic, cultural, and ecological utilities and to forge and popularize a sense of socialist nationhood. The CCP’s endeavor to fundamentally transform the West Lake area also opened up possibilities for both human and nonhuman actors to variously benefit from, get along with, and undermine the political authorities’ planning. This book thus emphatically foregrounds and unifies the agency of both humans and nonhuman entities that are not necessarily tied to intentionality, bringing into question the legitimacy of the human/nonhuman binary. Author Qiliang He explores the agency of both humans and nonhumans (including water, microbes, aquatic plants, the park, pigs, trees, pests, and tombs) to affect, deflect, and undercut the CCP’s sociopolitical programs, thereby diminishing the efficacy of state propaganda. Highlighting the nonpurposive agency of both actors problematizes the long-held resistance-accommodation paradigm, which presumes the resisters’ a priori subjectivities independent of the socialist system, in studying the state-society relationship in the People’s Republic of China. Using a project-based approach, The People’s West Lake gives the nature-human relationship in Mao’s China (best known as Mao’s “war against nature”) historical and cultural specificities to reexamine the PRC regime’s central planning and the issues related to it.

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0824896904

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Working the System

Motion Picture, Filmmakers, and Subjectivities in Mao-Era China, 1949–1966

By: Qiliang He

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Working the System

Motion Picture, Filmmakers, and Subjectivities in Mao-Era China, 1949–1966

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Book's by Qiliang Wang

Gilded Voices

Gilded Voices

Newspapers and the Journalistic Public in Republican China

Newspapers and the Journalistic Public in Republican China

Working the System

Working the System

The People's West Lake

The People's West Lake

Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China

Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China

Sociology of Law

Sociology of Law

Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China

Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China

Newspapers and the Journalistic Public in Republican China

Newspapers and the Journalistic Public in Republican China

Gilded Voices

Gilded Voices

The People’s West Lake

The People’s West Lake

Working the System

Working the System

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