The Chinese popular culture symbol 'KongYiJi' of production and consumption

The dozen chapters in this book, based on papers for a 1999 conference, comprise an interdisciplinary glimpse into the increasingly diverse and contradictory world of Chinese popular culture. A theme of Popular China is representation: most of the chapters examine the way in which group and individual identity is represented (in newspapers, magazines, popular sayings, and advertisements, and in the stories people tell about their lives). Many of the authors draw on surveys and interviews – of young basketball fans, rural women, home owners in Shanghai, migrant workers, and entrepreneurs – allowing the people of China to speak for themselves. The book contains nothing that is revelatory (especially for anyone who visits China regularly and reads Chinese), but it provides a detailed, informed look at each of several phenomena often noted only in passing.

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Constructing identities and negotiating ideologies with Chinese popular culture in adult Mandarin learning

Global Chinese ◽

10.1515/glochi-2018-0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 37-61

Author(s):

Sumin Fang ◽

Patricia A. Duff

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Language Ideologies ◽

Language Education ◽

Future Research ◽

Learner Identity ◽

Chinese Language Education ◽

Political Ideologies ◽

Adult Participants ◽

Global Language ◽

Chinese Popular Culture

AbstractDespite the emergence of Chinese as a global language, little research has been done to explore how learners of Chinese as an Additional Language (CAL), and Mandarin specifically, utilize semiotic resources in Chinese popular culture to negotiate their own and others’ language ideologies and identities. This study argues that popular culture is a rich site for ideological and identity work in which four sorts of questions can be explored: (1) Which language(s)? (2) Whose language? (3) Which texts and discourses? (4) What social implications? Employing this framework, this study draws on three focal adult participants’ reported experiences of engaging with Chinese popular culture as a means of improving their Mandarin proficiency. We discuss such themes as gender and heritage learner identity, and political ideologies and dispositions arising from the study. We conclude, briefly, with some implications for Chinese language education and for future research on this topic.

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Chinese Popular Culture and Ming Chantefables

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies ◽

10.2307/2652729 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 59 (2) ◽

pp. 629

Author(s):

Daniel L. Overmyer ◽

Anne E. McLaren

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Chinese Popular Culture

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Work and Play: The Production and Consumption of Toys in Germany, 1870–1914. By David D. Hamlin. Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany. Edited by, Geoff Eley. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. Pp. x+286. $70.00.

The Journal of Modern History ◽

10.1086/649111 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 81 (3) ◽

pp. 723-724

Author(s):

Sonja Levsen

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Social History ◽

University Of Michigan ◽

Production And Consumption ◽

Ann Arbor

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Role of English in Chinese Popular Culture

Journal of Literature and Art Studies ◽

10.17265/2159-5836/2017.08.011 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (8) ◽

Author(s):

YE Xiao-ya

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Chinese Popular Culture

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Left politics and popular culture in Britain: From left-wing populism to ‘popular leftism’

Politics ◽

10.1177/0263395720960661 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 026339572096066

Author(s):

Jonathan Dean

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Cultural Production ◽

Party Leader ◽

Left Wing ◽

Cultural Aspects ◽

Production And Consumption ◽

British Labour ◽

Classic Essay ◽

Popular Feminism ◽

The Relationship

This article analyses the cultural traction and media visibility yielded by left-wing ideas and people during Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure as British Labour Party leader (2015–2019), while also offering some more general reflections on the relationship between left politics and popular culture. I begin by noting that the cultural and media aspects of Corbynism have largely been neglected in the scholarly literature. I then go on to caution against the temptation of subsuming the cultural aspects of Corbyn-era left politics under the label of ‘left-wing populism’. Instead, I defend a conception of ‘popular leftism’ as distinct from ‘left-wing populism’, via an engagement with Stuart Hall’s classic essay ‘Notes on Deconstructing the Popular’, as well as Sarah Banet-Wesier’s recent work on popular feminism. The second half of the article maps key features of ‘popular leftism’ as a distinct cultural/political formation that has emerged ‘in and against’ neoliberalism. In particular, it focuses on media visibility, affective tenor, and tactical and intellectual dynamics. While popular leftism’s entanglement with neoliberalism has proved problematic for its transformative capacity, I nonetheless conclude that its emergence is testament to the importance of popular cultural production and consumption in shaping recent iterations of left politics in Britain.

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