Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self

A Chinese Internet? History, practice, and globalization

“…This experience shaped their understanding of the Internet as a whole. For the younger cohorts who grew up in the age of the Internet, it deeply shaped their personal identities (Liu, 2011). In March 2005, the famous Tsinghua University BBS SMTH (Shuimu Qinghua) was forced to change from an open forum into an internal, real-name BBS.…”

Curating Employee Ethics: Self-Glory Amidst Slow Violence at The China Tobacco Museum

“…Various branches of the party-state, in particular, have devoted much effort to shape what Chinese residents know and feel about significant events of the past (Duara 2008; Fogel 2000; Mitter 2000:279–93; Unger 1993; Watson 1994). These efforts have been bound up closely with an allied set of projects, making various forms of citizen-subjects who conform to the diverse and changing needs of the Party—initially revolutionary farmers, proletarian workers, and soldiers, and more recently government-friendly entrepreneurs, netizens, home-buyers, car owners, and rural risk takers willing to provide cheap migrant labor (Anagnost 1997, Rofel 1999, Zhang 2001, Liu 2002, Liu 2011). Since 1949, China’s state-run tobacco industry has tailored its products to help differentiate and sustain this array of selves, manufacturing a wide selection of cigarette brands, many symbolically segmented to suit specific categories of citizen subject.…”

Becoming homeowners: The emergence and use of online neighborhood forums in transitional urban China

“…And the number of IPv4 addresses has reached 330 million, ranking the second largest in the world (CNNIC, 2012). These developments are matched by the emergence of a lively Internet culture and public space in China (Herold & Marolt, 2011;Hu, 2008;Liu, 2011;Tai, 2006;Yang, 2003Yang, , 2011. Though much scholarly attention has been given to its political ramifications (e.g.…”