Fantasy Is More Believable

Tian, Xiaoli

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“…More great works were done along this line in recent years, for instance, in the volume Civil Sphere in East Asia , David A. Palmer talks about the moral codes in contemporary China – the ‘yellow code’, derived from Chinese traditional values, the ‘blue code’, derived from Western values, and the ‘red code’, derived from China’s revolutionary tradition, and how they contribute to or detract from civil values. In the same volume, Tian (2019) writes about how online fiction act as a ‘cathartic relief’ (p. 168) for Chinese people who live in an ‘increasingly crystalized class structure in which social justice is difficult to achieve’ (169). However, apart from these studies, most others focus mainly on the institutional and organizational factors of civil society.…”

Section: Chinese Civil Society Studies: What Is Missingmentioning

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From Chinese civil society to Chinese civil sphere: A conceptual reconfiguration of the space between state and society that facilitates intellectual debates

Qiaoan

2023

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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Scholarship on Chinese civil society suffers from a weak theorization of the concept, in which civil society is generally defined as NGOs (non-governmental organizations) that exists in the third sector. This article examines the dimension between state and society known as ‘civil sphere’, a concept that is broader and more mysterious than the conventional notion of ‘civil society’. Civil sphere can be understood as a discursive structure that defines what is civil and what is uncivil in a society. Taking the Chinese intellectual debate between the New Lefts and the Liberals as an example, this article shows that in a society that is rapidly changing, the existence of such a public sphere represents a vital source of individual freedom. Even though the civil sphere in China has been contracting lately, there are still intellectual debates on fundamental ideological issues that merit academic attention.

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Section: Chinese Civil Society Studies: What Is Missingmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Chinese civil society to Chinese civil sphere: A conceptual reconfiguration of the space between state and society that facilitates intellectual debates

Qiaoan

2023

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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Reader influence on the creation of transmedia science fiction: a participatory culture perspective

Xu,

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Linaza

2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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The term “Participatory Culture” was first put forward by Henry Jenkins in the book Text Poacher with the aim of comparing participation and the bystander (Jenkins, 2015. Participatory culture in a networked era: a conversation on youth, learning, commerce, and politics. Polity Press, Cambridge, UK). The earliest example is the study of the cultural logic of fan groups (or “fan culture”). When it was later studied more extensively, it took on different meanings. It has greatly influenced novels in the cross-media creative environment, and this has not only helped to expand the imagination and inspiration of authors but has also enriched novel plots. It can also increase audience participation and reading enthusiasm. This paper takes China’s science fiction transmedia as its example to analyze the significance and role of Participatory Culture, and it does this with the intention of helping to provide suggestions for the development of transmedia fictions.

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Fantasy Is More Believable

Cited by 2 publications

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From Chinese civil society to Chinese civil sphere: A conceptual reconfiguration of the space between state and society that facilitates intellectual debates

From Chinese civil society to Chinese civil sphere: A conceptual reconfiguration of the space between state and society that facilitates intellectual debates

Reader influence on the creation of transmedia science fiction: a participatory culture perspective

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