Ly luan Van hoa hoc o TQ - Theoretical issues on Cultural Studies in China 中国文化学理论研究 (original) (raw)
A cultural studies without guarantees: response to Kuan-Hsing Chen
Cultural Studies: 10: 1 Controversies in …, 1996
In the ten years since this journal was founded, the field of cultural studies has expanded and flourished. It has at once become broader and more focused, facing as it does the challenges of global economic, cultural and political reconfiguration on the one hand, and of new attacks on the university and intellectual work on the other. As we look forward to the next decade, we expect Cultural Studies to continue to contribute to both the expansion and the integration of cultural studies.
Chinese Western Cultural Relations: A Critical Analysis
2017
This study, within the theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis, aims to explore how culture represents language, causing cultural differences between the East and the West. With a set of questions, a qualitative method is employed to collect the data in this study. By examining the 189 theoretical studies and investigating cultural and linguistic features, this study will show how culture influences culture and language, while the content analysis is completely excluded due to the limited time and space. The data will be analyzed in light of the critical discourse analysis showing how social subjects are constructed in various discourses with their personal terms. A historical change between the East and the West is the return of the ancient Silk Roads at the early 21st century. Social changes can be seen when studying their cultural relations. Language is easily abstracted from culture. Both claim special reality of what they are. This article clearly explains how the ...
Art of the Orient, 2021
The aim of this article is to depict the transdisciplinary method of my authorship, developed while I was working on a dissertation in the field of the history of contemporary art. “Culture Trouble” is a paraphrase of the title of a book by Judith Butler.1) She discusses the impact of gender on an individual’s identity, while the aim of my research was to analyse the influence of native culture on the artwork of selected Chinese women. My research method is based mostly on those used in the classic history of art, but it also draws deeply form the sociology of culture. My main research tool, on the other hand, is Julia Kristeva’s theory of intertextuality.2) According to Kristeva, all cultural texts, including literary works, scientific studies, and works of art, are meeting points for various earlier ones. They all create specific mosaics composed of heritage – the elements of tradition, both material and immaterial – such as scroll painting and Taoist rituals. All texts exist in r...
2014
The history of Chinese art has been written profusely through a wide range of different perspectives in recent decades. Some art historians have focused their attention on the various segments of the timeline of Chinese art, whilst others have been specifically driven to a typological study of ceramics, jades, ritual bronzes, painting, sculpture, textiles, decorative arts or any other kind of art form produced in China during a single period or spanning the historical development and range of artistic sophistication of this typology. Furthermore, art historians have also examined the history of Chinese arts according to specific subject matter, discussing the arts in the court, burial art, religious arts and temple architecture, the exchange between China and the West, the arts along the Silk Road, just to mention a few examples.
china perspectives This article explores the reference to traditional culture and Confucianism in official discourses at the start of the new century. It shows the complexity and the ambiguity of the phenomenon and attempts to analyze it within the broader framework of society's evolving relation to culture. 51 N o 2 0 0 7 / 3 4. An article dealing with this question will appear in the 2007/4 issue of China Perspectives. See as well Ji Zhe, "Traditional Education in China: Conservative and/or Liberal?," Chinese Cross Currents, n°. 2.3, 2005, p. 32-41. 5. The most spectacular example of this phenomenon is the "Han Dress Movement" (Hanfu yundong 汉服运动) that has inspired tens of thousands of young people to march through China's large cities dressed in traditional clothing. In another register (the qipao), see as well Matthew Chew, "On the Contemporary Re-emergence of the qipao," The China Quarterly, nº. 189, March 2007. 6. We introduce this situation in Le Point (special issue : Les textes fondateurs de la pensée chinoise), March-April 2007, pp. 30-33. 7. A few recent examples suffice to illustrate the extent of the phenomenon: The Liaowang Dongfang Zhoukan, one of the leading national weeklies, mentions guoxue re 国学热 (the fever for national studies) as one of key phrases of 2006, Liaowang Dongfang Zhoukan (Oriental Outlook Weekly), 4 January 2007, pp. 64-65. In another issue, the same magazine dedicates a special feature to the official sacrifices to the great ancestors of Chinese civilisation (issue dated 21/06/2007, pp.10-23). Zhongguo xinwen zhoukan (China Newsweek, nº.42/2006) dedicates a special feature to The Dignity of China (Zunyan Zhongguo) emphasising the role of Confucianism. The issue 40/2006 of the same weekly made its headlines with the question Who are we? (women shi shei 我们是谁) in a special dossier featuring articles on the issues of rites, Han dress, traditional education, Chinese medicine, etc. Another national magazine, Xin Zhoukan (New weekly, nº. 238, dated 01/11/2006) proposed to its readers several articles on the utilisation of history that analyzed, among other topics, the craze for historical TV shows on television. Recent cover pages of national weeklies (see footnote no. 7) china perspectives S p e c i a l f e a t u r e tions. We will conclude by raising a few questions about the nature of contemporary China's relationship to time.