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Location: Central Classroom 340
Time: Fridays 1:30-4:30
Instructor: Kirk A. Denton / 392 Cunz Hall / 292-5548 (Office)
E-mail: denton.2@osu.edu
Course web-page: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/courses/c879/p879.htm
Office hours: M 1:30-3:30
Assignments
1. Weekly assignments (beginning week three)
-each week students will do investigative work finding examples of the form of popular culture treated that week and present them briefly to the class, then develop some sort of approach to that text; rather than present a complete reading of the text, you suggest possible ways of dealing with the text, suggest issues that are brought out by the text, etc.
-the text should be popular rather than elite (though, of course, this distinction is not always easy to make)
-finding materials may not be easy; students should consider the following possible sources: internet (for tv and radio channels, popular music, fashion, advertising), Chinese grocery stories for tapes of tv and films; and interlibrary loan for journals and books
2. Project (due at the end of classes)
-students will develop one of their weekly assignments into a scholarly project that will should be both descriptive and analytical
-the project should be submitted in web format; if of high quality, the project will eventually be posted on the MCLC Resource Center site
-subjects may also vary from the forms treated in class; for instance, you may look at any of the following topics: internet, tourism, museums, street culture, subcultures, gambling, greeting cards, sex culture, discos, karaoke bars, fast food culture, banquet culture, sports participation and spectatorship, qigong, everyday life, aspects of material culture, linglei (alternative) culture, blog sites, cyberliterature, etc.
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) Resource Center
This is a useful place to begin for finding information on various forms of popular culture in modern China; there are sections on Popular Literature/Culture; Media (includiing film, television, general media, internet); Visual Arts (including popular and folk art, propaganda art, woodcuts, cartoons, fashion, advertising and commercial culture, urban studies, and museum studies); Music
"Chinese Popular Culture and the State." Special issue of positions east asian cultures critique 9, 1 (Spring 2001).
Liu, Kang. Globalization and Cultural Trends in China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
Storey, John. Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
Schedule:
Week I: Field of Popular Culture and Theory
Readings: Storey 1996: 1-8; Liu Kang 2004: 1-22; Sheldon Lu 2001a
Week II: More Background
Readings: Li Hsiao-t'i 2001
Week III. Mass Media Print Culture (student assignments)
Readings: Storey 1996: 75-92; Leo Lee 1999: 43-81; Zhao 1998: 127-50;
Other Sources: Ng Mau-sang 1990; Kong Shuyu 2002
Week IV. Popular Fiction
Readings: Storey 1996: 29-53; Perry Link 1981: 1-39; Rey Chow 1986-87
Other Sources: Radway 1984; Lang 2003
Week V. Film and Melodrama (student assignments)
Readings: Storey 1996: 54-74; Browne 1994; Pickowicz 1993
Other Sources: Brook 1995; Lee 1999: 82-120; Paul Clark 1987
Week VI. Posters: Politics and Mass Culture
Readings: Evans/Donald 1999: 1-26; China Posters Online (University of Westminster): Stephan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Posters
Week VII. Commodification and Popular Culture: Advertising (student assignments)
Readings: Storey 1996: 113-35; Barme 1999: 235-54; Cochran 1999
Other Sources: Golman/Papson 1996; Twitchel 1996; Fraser 2000; Ng Chun Bong 1995; Laing 2004; Cochran 1999; Gerth 2003
Week VIII. Fashion and Design
Readings: Steele/Major 1999; Finnane 1998
Week IX. Popular Music (student assignments)
Readings: Storey 1996: 93-112; Jones 2001: 72-104; Baranovitch 2003: 10-53
Other Sources: Pratt 1990; Irving 1988; Adorno 1990
Week X. Television (student assignments)
Readings: Storey 1996: 9-28; Lydia Liu 1999; Sheldon Lu 2001b
Other sources: Lull 1991
Week XI: Material Culture/ Culture of the Everyday
Readings: Storey 1996: 113-35; Lu Hanchao 2000; Brook 1998; deCerteau 1984; Davis, 2000; Cochran 2000; Miller/McHoul 1998.
Week XII: Internet Culture (student assignments)
Readings: Liu Kang 2004: 127-61
Andrews, Julia and Shen Kuiyi. Catalogue for Lianhuanhua exhibition.
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Baranovitch, Nimrod. China’s New Voices: Popular Music, Ethinicity, Gender, and Politics, 1978-1997. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Barme, Geremie. 1996. Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader. NY: M.E. Sharpe.
-----. 1999. In the Red, Contemporary Chinese Culture. NY: Columbia UP.
Brook, Timothy. 1998. The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China. Berkeley: UCP.
Browne, Nick. 1994. "Society and Subjectivity: On the Political Economy of Chinese Melodrama." In Browne, et al. eds, New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 40-56.
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Ching, Leo. "Globalizing the Regional, Regionalizing the Global: Mass Culture and Asianism in the Age of Late Capital." In Arjun Appadurai, ed., Globalization. Durham: Duke UP, 2001, 279-306.
Chow, Rey. 1986-87. "Rereading Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: A Response to the 'Postmodern' Condition." Cultural Critique 5 (Winter): 69-93.
Clark, Paul. 1987. Chinese Cinema: Culture and Politics Since 1949. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
Cochran, Sherman, ed. 1999. Inventing Nanjing Road : Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945. Ithaca, NY : East Asia Program, Cornell University.
Craig, Timothy and Richard King, eds. Global Goes Local: Popular Culture in Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.
Dai Jinhua. 1999. "Invisible Writing: The Politics of Chinese Mass Culture in the 1990s." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 11, 1 (Spring 1999): 31-60.
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Davis, Deborah, ed. 2000. The Consumer Revolution in Urban China. Berkeley: UCP.
Doctoroff, Tom. Billions: Selling to the New Chinese Consumer. NY: Palgrave, 2005.
Evans, Harriet and Stephanie Donald, eds. 1999. Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China: Posters of the Cultural Revolution. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Farrer, James. 2002. Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Farquhar, Judith. 2001. "For Your Reading Pleasure: Self-Health (Ziwo baojian) Information in 1990s Beijing." positions 9, 1 (Spring): 105-130.
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Finnane, Antonia and Anne McLaren, eds.1998. Dress, Sex and Text in Chinese Culture. Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute.
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Fogel, Joshua and Peter Zarrow, eds. 1997. Imagining the People:: Chinese Intellectuals and the Concept of Citizenship, 1890-1920. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
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Hung, Chang-tai. 1985. Going to the People: Chinese Intellectuals and Folk Literature, 1918-1937. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University.
Internet Statistics: Growth and Usage of the Web and the Internet (Matthew Gray; MIT)
-----. 1994. War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945. Berkeley: UCP.
Johnson, David, Nathan, Andrew and Rawski, Evelyn, eds. 1989. Popular Culture in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: UCP.
-----. Chinese Popular Culture, syllabus for course taught at University of California, Berkeley.
Jones, Andrew F. 1992. Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Chinese Popular Music. Ithaca: Cornell East Asian Program.
-----. 1999. "The Gramophone in China." In Lydia Liu, ed., Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations. Durham: Duke UP, 1999, 214-38.
-----. 2001. Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age. Durham: Duke UP.
Kinkley, Jeffrey. 2000. Chinese Justice, the Fiction: Law and Literature in Modern China. Stanford: SUP.
Kong, Shuyu. "Between a Rock and a Hard Place Chinese Literary Journals in the Cultural Market." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 14, no. 1 (Spring): 93-144.
Laing, Ellen Johnston. 2004. Selling Happiness: Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai.
Landsberger, Stefan. 1995. Chinese Propaganda Posters: From Revolution to Modernization. Amsterdam: The Pepin Press.
Lang, Miriam. 2003. "San Mao and Qiong Yao, a 'Popular' Pair." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 15, 2 (Fall): 76-120.
Lee, Leo Ou-fan. 1999. Shanghai Modern. Cambridge: Harvard UP.
Lei, Guang. 2003. "Rural Taste, Urban Fashion: The Cultural Politics of Rural / Urban Difference in Contemporary China." positions 11, 3 (Winter): 613-46.
Lent, John, ed.1995. Asian Popular Culture. San Francisco: Westview Press.
Li, Hsiao-t'i. 2001. "Making a Name and a Culture for the Masses in China." positions 9, 1 (Spring): 29-68.
Ling Ling Women's Magazine (19319-37) [prepared by Columbia University Library]
Link, Perry. 1981. Mandarin Duck and Butterflies: Popular Fiction in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Cities. Berkeley: UCP..
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-----. 2002. Popular China: Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Liu Kang. 1997. "Popular Culture and the Culture of the Masses in Contemporary China." Boundary 2 24, 3: 99-122.
-----. 2004. Globalization and Cultural Trends in China. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
Liu, Lydia H. 1999. "Beijing Soujourners in New York: Postsocialism and the Question of Ideology in Global Media Culture." Positions 7, 3 (Winter): 763-97.
Lu Hanchao. 1999. Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century. Berkeley: UCP.
Lu, Sheldon H. 2001a. "Popular Culture: Toward a Historical and Dialectical Method." In Lu, China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity. Stanford: Stanford UP, 195-212.
-----. 2001b. "Soap Opera: The Transnational Politics of Visuality, Sexuality, and Masculinity." In Lu, China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity. Stanford: Stanford UP, 213-38. Originally published as "Soap Opera in China: The Transnational Politics of Visuality, Sexuality, and Masculinity." Cinema Journal 40, 1 (2000): 25-47.
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Ma, Ning. 1994. "Spatiality and Subjectivity in Xie Jin's Film Melodrama of the New Period." In Browne, et al. eds, New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 15-39.
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-----. 1995. "A Common People's Literature: Popular Fiction and Social Change in Republican China." East Asian History 9 (June): 1-22.
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