Description

Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age

Edited by Doreen D. Wu

  • Published: 2008
  • Subject Listing: Asian Studies
  • Bibliographic information: 300 pp., 6 x 9 in.
  • Territorial rights: North American rights only
  • Distributed for: Hong Kong University Press
  • Series: Studying Multicultural Discourses Series
  • Contents

Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age examines cultural China from a glocalization perspective by recording, describing, and explaining how current discourses speak and write about the country. By analyzing how the interpretation of China is connected with the country's past and how the discourses are reconstructed with other cultures in the age of accelerated globalization, it provides fresh empirical data and thought-provoking assessments.

The second title in the series Studying Multicultural Discourses, which promotes a new, multiculturalist orientation in discourse studies, Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age is ideal for students, researchers, and scholars who would like to know more about the discursive practice and changes in one of the fastest-growing countries in the world.

"This book will be a valuable addition to the emerging literature which approaches 'Cultural China' from a discourse-analytical perspective, researching globalization and 'glocalization' as discursive hybridity." - Norman Fairclough, Emeritus Professor, Lancaster University, UK

"The multiple approaches employed by scholars from various disciplines to study cultural China from the discourse perspective not only make this book a significant addition to the literature, but also open a new door for understanding Chinese mind and behavior in this globalizing society. This book provides a holistic view, which bridges the missing gap between traditional and contemporary boundary in scholar's work on the study of Chinese people." - Guo-Ming Chen, Professor of Communication Studies, University of Rhode Island

Doreen D. Wu is an associate professor of Chinese and bilingual studies at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors

Glocalization and the Discourses of Cultural China: An Introduction / Doreen D. Wu

Part I: Conflict, Crisis, and Discourse Struggle in Cultural China
1. Official Discourse of a "Well-off Society": Constructing an Economic State and Political Legitimacy / Bei Cai
2. Dances with Discursive Ghosts: Ideology of the Body in Contemporary Chinese Cinema from Unrequited Love to Big Shot's Funeral / Sihui Mao
3. A Woman Warrior or a Forgotten Concubine? Verbal Construction of a Feminist Politician in Taiwan / Sai-hua Kuo
4. The SARS Case Report as a Genre: How It Figures in Anti-SARS Social Practice / Hailong Tian

Part II: Hybridized and Diverse Discourses in Cultural China
5. Patterns of Global-Local Fusion in Chinese Internet Advertising / Doreen D. Wu
6. Children's Television Programs in China: A Discourse of Success and Modernity / Kara Chan and Fanny Chan
7. Confucianism and Utilitarianism in Jiang-Clinton Rhetoric / D. Ray Heisey
8. East Is East and West Is West? Values and Styles of Communication in Foreign-Invested Enterprises in China / Sim Liang
9. News Coverage on Soong Meiling's Death across Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan / Changfeng Chen and Jiani Zhang

Part III: Discourse and Identity in Cultural China
10. Discourse and Cultural Identity: Towards a Global Identity for Hong Kong / Anthony Fung
11. Analyzing Chinese Identity Today: New Insights into Identity Rankings of Young Adults in Urban China / Shutian Zhang and Steve Kulich
12. The Mediated Chinese Individual Globality / Xiaohui Pan

Towards a Chinese-Discourse-Studies Approach to Cultural China: An Epilogue / Shi-xu

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