The Politics of Chinese Language and Culture (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 ...
Critical Dialogues in Culture Studies
all's work has been central to the formation and development of cultural studies as an international discipline. Stuart H all: Critical D ialogues in Cultural Studies is an invaluable collection of writings by and about Stuart H all. The book provides a representative selection of H all's enormously influential writings on cultural studies and its concerns: the relationship with marxism; postmodernism and 'N ew Times' in cultural and political thought; the development of cultural studies as an international and postcolonial phenomenon and H all's engagement with urgent and abiding questions of 'race', ethnicity and identity.
Cultural studies: Crossing borders, defending distinctions
International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2020
What and where is cultural studies today? What is it becoming? What should or could it become? What is its meaning? What is at stake as we assess the ongoing development and maturation of cultural studies as field? The International Journal of Cultural Studies is soliciting provocative answers to these and related questions, from a range of scholars internationally. We will publish their responses as an ongoing series, across multiple issues.
A Puzzle Constantly Changing Itself: Cultural Studies in the 21st Century A review of
Cultural studies is a field constantly questioning itself, with its practitioners reflecting on its objects of study, methods and the politics of the knowledge it produces. For some, this reflexivity represents a problem with the field. It is seen as a relic of cultural studies' struggle to constitute itself as a particular form of scholarly practice that is no longer necessary because of its increasing institutionalization within the university. For others, this inquisitiveness and commitment to consider its own assumptions are cultural studies' greatest strengths and a reason why the field has the potential to improve our knowledge of a constantly changing world. These positions (and various points between them) have been taken up in a number of recent works on cultural studies, of which I will here discuss Lawrence Grossberg's Cultural Studies in the Future Tense (CSFT), Paul Smith's edited collection e Renewal of Cultural Studies (RCS), and Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader (CCS), edited by Sourayan Mookerjea, Imre Szeman and Gail Faurschou. With cultural studies itself as their subject, these works help to provide different perspectives of the field as they map its key themes, issues, and debates. However, they may also be seen as working to take cultural studies into the future, with each book suggesting ways to ensure the discipline's value as an interdisciplinary intellectual and institutional practice.
Cultural studies as a construct
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 1999
This article discusses cultural studies as a social construct, and especially how it emerged in Finland. The 'discovery' of cultural studies in Finland in the early 1980s was made in a situation within Finnish sociology where some scholars began to adopt an orientation which resembled the Birmmgham orientation, but the influences to it stemmed from several sources. It was only then that the Birmingham School was founded, and certain people identified themselves with cultural studies. Yet within the local field of paradigms, Finnish 'cultural studies' was and remains a highly distinctive discursive construct.
Perspectives in Cultural Studies I
This course introduces students to the work and significance of representation and power in the understanding of culture as social practice. It helps students to understand the relationships among sign, culture and the making of meanings in society. From this base it approaches the question of ideology and subjectivity in the shaping of culture. With reference to various cultural texts and social contexts, we study examples of cultural production from history and politics to lived experiences of the everyday, from photography and art to cinema and museum, from popular culture to lifestyle etc. In appreciating divergent concerns in the critical analysis of culture and power, we focus on selected topics both mainstream and emergent, with an emphasis on contemporary developments in the Asian contexts. A brief account of the intellectual formations of Cultural Studies will be provided to allow students to appreciate the global, regional and local perspectives in the evolving field of study.
Cultural studies and the transnational
New cultural studies: Adventures in theory, 2006
New Cultural Studies 'New Cultural Studies is a rousing call to reinvigorate cultural studies. Presenting and interrogating a range of new theoretical discourses, the book provides a generous and informative look at a new generation of theorists whose work is crucial to understanding the agency of politics within cultural studies. New Cultural Studies is a must read for anyone concerned not just about the future of cultural studies but also about theory's presence in constructing such a future.' Henry Giroux, McMaster University 'This is a wonderful book about emergent possibilities within cultural studies. The contributors valuably deconstruct and rearticulate the toooften taken for granted theoretical discourses of cultural studies. Rather than a declaration of generational independence as the title might suggest, it is an important reminder of the need for cultural studies to go on theorizing, in ever-changing contexts of political demands.' Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 'Hall and Birchall, along with the writers they have included in this volume, breathe fresh intellectual life in the field of Cultural Studies by looking to strands in contemporary philosophy and showing how an animated conversation between Cultural Studies and Philosophy, especially in relation to world events, ethics, war, multi-culturalism, technology and the body, is long overdue. The chapters in this collection are erudite and lucid, they are also lively and engaged, and they are highly effective insofar as they bring Cultural Studies into a new era.'
Interrogating Cultural Studies
INTERROGATING CULTURAL STUDIES Contents Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction: Interrogating Cultural Studies Section One: From Cultural Studies Catherine Belsey: From Cultural Studies to Cultural Criticism? Mieke Bal: From Cultural Studies to Cultural Analysis: ‘a controlled reflection on the formation of method’ Martin McQuillan: The Projection of Cultural Studies Section Two: Cultural Studies (&) Philosophy Simon Critchley: Why I Love Cultural Studies Chris Norris: Two Cheers for Cultural Studies: A Philosopher’s View Section Three: For Cultural Studies Adrian Rifkin: Inventing Recollection Griselda Pollock: Becoming Cultural Studies: the Daydream of the Political Section Four: What Cultural Studies Jeremy Gilbert: Friends and Enemies: Which Side is Cultural Studies On? Julian Wolfreys: …as if such a thing existed… Section Five: Positioning Cultural Studies John Mowitt: Cultural Studies, in Theory Jeremy Valentine: The Subject Position of Cultural Studies: Is There A Problem? Steven Connor: What Can Cultural Studies Do? Section Six: Against Cultural Studies Thomas Docherty: responses Lynette Hunter: unruly fugues Index
Martínez-Robles, D. (2008). The Western representation of Modern China: Orientalism, Culturalism and Historiographical Criticism. In: Digithum, Nº. 10.
The West's perception of China as a historical entity has evolved over the centuries. China has gone from a country of miracles and marvels in the medieval world and a refined and erudite culture in early modern Europe, to become a nation without history or progress since the Enlightenment of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The first historians of China were, in fact, representatives of the great Western empires at the end of the 19th century and their work perceives China from epistemological positions that clearly form part of the Orientalist and colonial thought that was characteristic of the period. History written throughout the 20th century, despite the efforts made to overcome the prejudices of the past, was unable to distance itself completely from some of the resources used in representation or the stereotypes that the Western world had come to accept about China and East Asia since the Enlightenment. Only in recent decades has a critical historiography appeared to denounce the problems inherent in the discourse produced on China, and even this has failed to address them fully.
Paper for The Fifth Global Forum of Critical Studies: How to Differentiate Cultures from One Anther?
How can we differentiate cultures? It is a difficult question for westerners to distinguish Hong Kongese culture from Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese, for they are too similar to each other. In order to maintain the political security and the national unity of China, Chinese Communist government keeps on oppressing local cultural identities, particularly Hong Kong cultural identity in recent year, although Hong Kong is an autonomous region (known as " Special Administrative Region ") which should be free from Chinese political intervention. Traditional philosophy of culture, which de fines culture as " spirit " or value systems, can hardly help us differentiate cultures in East Asia, particularly when globalisation and regionalisation further diversify the values of cultures there. For instance, you can hardly de fine a clear value system of Hong Kong Culture. As the author of the new book A Discourse on Hong Kong Culture (Traditional Chinese: 香港文化論), in my presentation I would like to introduce a new definition of culture in my book (known as " existential hermeneutical definition "), that culture as a power of interpretation provided by the community. I would argue that without our own culture we shall lose our ability of interpretation. When the people in a community shares a similar existential situation (similar history, same geographical location and social-economic interaction), the same language, similar values, similar ways of living and they are linked by a community network, they form a cultural self. Using Hong Kong culture as a case study I am going to demonstrate that the cultural self is emergent when an individual member realises that someone is culturally different from him. The new concept of culture may be applied in not only cultural studies, but also the political theories and social activisms for separatism, nationalism or localism.