China's Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces: Creativity, Sociality, Identity and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9781032089676 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 276 str.

Vanessa Frangville; Gwennaël Gaffric

Opis

Presenting the collaborative work of thirteen 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.

Spis treści

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 21^st 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

O autorze

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.