3. Confucian Values and Cultural Displacement in Pushing Hands

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Displacement ◽  
Confucian Values

scholarly journals “A Real China” on User-Generated Videos? Audio-Visual Narratives of Confucianism

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 342-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianxiu Hao
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Cultural Displacement ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
Confucian Values ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

Beneath the “Chinese successful story”, social stratification, class polarization, and cultural displacement have been accelerated. The Chinese Communist Party has not found a coherent solution to the challenges of reconciling social interests, since Communism has been more and more becoming mere “lip service”. However, it has been claimed that Confucian values can provide sources to dissolve the downsides of modernization in contemporary Chinese society. This study intends to investigate the revival of Confucianism, as a source for criticism and construction in Chinese socio-culture, as portrayed in user-generated videos which are produced/consumed by the largest Internet using population in the world, under the Chinese authoritarian regime which controls over communication. By means of a thematic audio-visual narrative analysis, this study has investigated 20 hours of Youku Paike videos published between 2007 and 2013. It has been detected:  (1) about one third of the user-generated videos can be interpreted as Confucian thematic narratives; and there is a slightly increasing trend portraying Confucian values; (2) Confucianism can become a source for the formation of a new online socio-culture, in the circumstances of China’s modernization and cyberization, to advocate social actors’ cultivation and humanity’s flourishing.

scholarly journals “A Real China” on User-Generated Videos? Audio-Visual Narratives of Confucianism

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 342-355
Author(s):  
Jianxiu Hao
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Cultural Displacement ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
Confucian Values ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

Beneath the “Chinese successful story”, social stratification, class polarization, and cultural displacement have been accelerated. The Chinese Communist Party has not found a coherent solution to the challenges of reconciling social interests, since Communism has been more and more becoming mere “lip service”. However, it has been claimed that Confucian values can provide sources to dissolve the downsides of modernization in contemporary Chinese society. This study intends to investigate the revival of Confucianism, as a source for criticism and construction in Chinese socio-culture, as portrayed in user-generated videos which are produced/consumed by the largest Internet using population in the world, under the Chinese authoritarian regime which controls over communication. By means of a thematic audio-visual narrative analysis, this study has investigated 20 hours of Youku Paike videos published between 2007 and 2013. It has been detected:  (1) about one third of the user-generated videos can be interpreted as Confucian thematic narratives; and there is a slightly increasing trend portraying Confucian values; (2) Confucianism can become a source for the formation of a new online socio-culture, in the circumstances of China’s modernization and cyberization, to advocate social actors’ cultivation and humanity’s flourishing.

The Introduction of Minbenzhuyi and the Return of Its Traditional Chinese Meaning

Cultura ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-88
Author(s):  
Xiaobo LV
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Intellectual Community ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
Liang Qichao ◽  
Confucian Values ◽  
Chinese Intellectual ◽  
Ancient Literature ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Chen Duxiu

The concepts of Minben , Minbensixiang , and Minbenzhuyi are rather popular in current Chinese discourse. However, “Minben” was hardly found in Chinese ancient literature as a noun. Around the year of 1916, “Minbenzhuyi” became widely accepted in Japanese intellectual circles, interpreted as one of the Japanese versions of democracy. In 1917, “Minbenzhuyi” was transferred to China as a loanword by Li Dazhao and developed into one of the Chinese definitions of democracy. Nevertheless, Chen Duxiu questioned the meaning of the term in 1919. It was not until 1922 did Liang Qichao bring Minbenzhuyi back into Chinese context and conduct a systematic analysis, which had a lasting impact on Chinese intellectual community. In the following 20 years, Minbenzhuyi was largely accepted in two different senses: 1) interpreted as Chinese definition of democracy; 2) specifically refers to the Confucian idea of “Minshiminting and Minguijunqing (;, ) Gradually, it became evident that Minbenzhuyi in China had grown distant from the meaning of democracy and returned to its traditional Confucian values.

Semiotics of Clothes in Postcolonial Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-215
Author(s):  
Somaye Sharify ◽  
Nasser Maleki
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Postcolonial Literature ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Female Immigrant ◽  
Cultural Displacement ◽  
Romance Fiction ◽  
Dress Codes ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe present study intends to examine the link between clothes and cultural identities in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Hema and Kaushik” (2008). It will argue that Lahiri explores her protagonists’ cultural displacement through their items of clothing. We want to suggest that the protagonists’ clothes are employed in each narrative as signifiers for the characters’ cultural identities. The study will further show that each item of clothing could be loaded with the ideological signification of two separate cultures. In other words, it aims to demonstrate how ideology imposes its values, beliefs, and consequently its dominance through the dress codes each defines for its subjects. Moreover, it intends to suggest that the link between clothing and identity is most visible and intense in the case of female immigrant characters rather than men. Drawing on Luptan’s structure of the Cinderella line, we will explore Lahiri’s protagonists’ cultural transformation from simple ethnic girls to stylish American ladies through their items of clothing. The study will conclude that the “Cinderella line” does not work in Lahiri’s realistic stories the way it does in fairy tales and romance fiction.

Counterproductive Work Behaviors, Confucian Values, and Production Deviance: the Mediating Effect of Job Satisfaction

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 1045-1056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Wei Guo
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Counterproductive Work Behaviors ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Work Behaviors ◽  
Production Deviance ◽  
Confucian Values ◽  
The Relationship

Production deviance is 1 of 5 dimensions of counterproductive work behaviors (CWB). Based on data collected from 362 employees of Chinese enterprises, I examined the predictive effect of Confucian values on production deviance and the mediating effect of job satisfaction on the relationship between Confucian values and production deviance using structural equation modeling. I analyzed 3 factors of production deviance: work sabotage, slackness, and withdrawal. Confucian values were found to have a significant negative impact on these factors. Furthermore, job satisfaction was found to partially mediate the relationship between Confucian values slackness and withdrawal, but not work sabotage.

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