Searching for a New Cultural Identity: China's soft power and media culture today

Kang, Liu

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“…Domestically, the new leader Xi Xinping has pushed an aggressive agenda of what Robert Zoellick called a ‘mix of Mao and market’, referring to the adamant refusal to enact political reform on the one hand and having bold pro-market economic measures on the other, raising the skepticism that ‘whether a policy of Mao and the market proves internally consistent.’ 16 In the ideological and cultural arena, Xi’s policy looks tougher and more conservative than his predecessors, clamping down on political dissent and criticism on the internet, forbidding discussions of universalism, constitutionalism, and so on, while proclaiming the Chinese Dream and urging the Chinese people to gain ‘confidence in the theory, the road and the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and forge valiantly and unswervingly ahead along the right road.’ 17 However, to persuade the Chinese people to have confidence in the Chinese Dream and the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party is a formidable challenge to the leadership. As argued elsewhere, 18 the legitimation crisis lurking behind the astonishing economic growth ever since the reform and opening up, has resurfaced over and again. Underlying the issue of China’s global image and soft power is the ideological and legitimation crisis that the new leadership has yet to come to terms with.…”

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Interests, Values, and Geopolitics: The Global Public Opinion on China

Kang

2015

European Review

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The essay discusses the public opinion surveys on the rise of China in the United States, Asia and Latin America since 2010, conducted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Duke University’s collaborative research team headed by the author. It examines the world public recognition of China’s growing influence, their attitudes toward China’s influence, and reactions to the ‘China Model’ and impressions of China’s political, economic, social, and cultural development. These assessments of China’s domestic issues or internal behavior show not only the amount of information and knowledge that the people in various countries know about China, but the intrinsic value judgments and ideological biases that influence their perceptions of China. The essay argues that the rise of China is a complicated phenomenon with a multifarious nature, including material dimensions, such as military power, economic development, and technological innovation, as well as ideational dimensions, such as perception, understanding, or prejudice. Public opinion, attitudes and perceptions of China’s rise are the outcome of dynamic interactions and assemblage of factors, a synergy of material interests, ideational and emotional reactions, and values, ideologies, principles, unraveling themselves against a highly volatile, precarious and contentious geopolitical backdrop, in which the interests of nation-states and individuals became all intertwined and inseparable.

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Interests, Values, and Geopolitics: The Global Public Opinion on China

Kang

2015

European Review

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“…Regardless of competing discourses or subjectification technologies (Liu, 2011), young people in China are engaged in multiple forms of identity work and social participation through which they (re)construct their connection with society (Kang, 2012). One of the major venues for their social participation is the internet.…”

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Angry youth or realistic idealist? The formation of subjectivity in online political participation of young adults in urban China

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2020

Journal of Sociology

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This article examines the formation of Chinese young people’s political subjectivity through exploring their everyday online political participation. Drawing on qualitative data collected from 31 Chinese young people, it identifies three dispositions apparent in their online participatory activities in different circumstances: ‘angry youth’, ‘powerless cynics’, and ‘realistic idealists’. Reflecting their accounts of these participatory activities, these dispositions as manifestations of subjectivities are shaped by the contingent participatory circumstances of the young people and are connected to their previous history of participation. Their online political participation serves as a vehicle for the formation of their subjectivity in the distinctively Chinese context. In this way, the internet facilitates the formation of the subjectivities of young people by providing a space for them to interact with other collective subjectivities, enabling a new form of engagement within which the formation of new subjectivities can develop.

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Chinese State Capitalism and the Transition to Digital Television in Africa

Abikanlu

2021

Television in Africa in the Digital Age

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Searching for a New Cultural Identity: China's soft power and media culture today

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Interests, Values, and Geopolitics: The Global Public Opinion on China

Interests, Values, and Geopolitics: The Global Public Opinion on China

Angry youth or realistic idealist? The formation of subjectivity in online political participation of young adults in urban China

Chinese State Capitalism and the Transition to Digital Television in Africa

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