Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age
Wu, Dorren D.
The essays in this volume examine the discourses of Cultural China from a glocalization perspective, and attempt to understand contemporary Cultural China by recording, describing and explaining its current discourses.
Cover; Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Glocalization and the Discourses of Cultural China: An Introduction; 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; 2. Dances with Discursive Ghosts: Ideology of the Body in Contemporary Chinese Cinema from Unrequited Love to Big Shot's Funeral; 3. A Woman Warrior or a Forgotten Concubine? Verbal Construction of a Feminist Politician in Taiwan
4. The SARS Case Report as a Genre: How It Figures in Anti-SARS Social PracticePART II: Hybridized and Diverse Discourses in Cultural China; 5. Patterns of Global-Local Fusion in Chinese Internet Advertising; 6. Children's Television Programs in China: A Discourse of Success and Modernity; 7. Confucianism and Utilitarianism in Jiang-Clinton Rhetoric; 8. East Is East and West Is West? Values and Styles of Communication in Foreign-Invested Enterprises in China; 9. News Coverage on Soong Meiling's Death across Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
PART III: Discourse and Identity in Cultural China10. Discourse and Cultural Identity: Towards a Global Identity for Hong Kong; 11. Analyzing Chinese Identity Today: New Insights into Identity Rankings of Young Adults in Urban China; 12. The Mediated Chinese Individual Globality; Towards a Chinese-Discourse-Studies Approach to Cultural China: An Epilogue; Index
The essays in this volume examine the discourses of Cultural China from a glocalization perspective, and attempt to understand contemporary Cultural China by recording, describing and explaining its current discourses.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes index.
Description based on print version record.
Culture and globalization
Sociolinguistics
Chinese language