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{"title":"Nearby art: A new type of public art practice in the Pearl River Delta, China","authors":"Yaqin Zhong, Qingtong Yang, Yiwen Wang","doi":"10.1177/20594364231223772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231223772","url":null,"abstract":"With the development and transformation of contemporary Chinese urban areas, the production mechanism, place, and form of expression of urban public art are rapidly evolving. At the same time, urban planning is accelerating the disappearance of the urban “nearby” as a buffer zone and innovation space. Taking the Pearl River Delta region in China, and in particular, the historic city of Guangzhou and the immigrant city of Shenzhen as examples, this paper analyzes how urban groups perceive the nearby environment through the action of art through the evolution of urban culture. This paper proposes “nearby art,” a term that refers to the art form in which urban individuals or small groups from different backgrounds subtly target social issues and practice locally in complex urban surroundings. The concept of nearby art is based on the examination of trends toward diversification in public art. First, groups with different backgrounds have been playing a unique role in public art. Second, the places where public art is situated has extended to diverse and mixed urban spaces. In addition, diverse ways of interacting with public art have enriched the forms of expression of public art. Through nearby art, both creators and participants can better reflect on their present situation in life and rebuild social relations through interaction. This kind of art is increasingly becoming an important part of residents’ daily lives as it creates a more visual and fluid life esthetic. Simultaneously, it is constructing and disseminating narrative elements within urban culture by uncovering and integrating the diverse cultural content.","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139382816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Minzu as technology: Ethnic identity and social media in post 2000s China","authors":"Chi Zhang","doi":"10.1177/20594364231224817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231224817","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139137388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Global China and everyday mediation in the Global South: Selling Chinese fashion in Mozambique via WhatsApp","authors":"Johanna von Pezold","doi":"10.1177/20594364231222971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231222971","url":null,"abstract":"Combining online and offline data collection during six months of ethnographic fieldwork in Southern Mozambique in early 2021, this paper explores how media and its everyday use in the Global South are impacting on, and are in turn being transformed by China. It specifically looks into the creative and personalised ways in which Chinese-made garments are sold and promoted in Mozambique via the messenger service WhatsApp. Examining how Mozambican and West African traders use WhatsApp groups and status updates to mediate the fashionability of these Chinese goods, this paper shows that the consequences of Chinese interactions with the Global South on the global media landscape transcend the mere spread of Chinese hardware and software. Going beyond dominant, state-centred narratives of Chinese influence abroad, this paper demonstrates the key role of individuals and their agency in shaping the digital impact of Global China. By doing so, it also highlights the importance of analysing media practices in their specific local contexts.","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138951552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Virtual presence, real connections: Exploring the role of parasocial relationships in virtual idol fan community participation","authors":"Jiahui Liu","doi":"10.1177/20594364231222976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231222976","url":null,"abstract":"The reconstruction of idol worship culture is evident with the rise of virtual personas, especially within the realm of AI-powered entities. It is important to consider cultural specificities, particularly in regions like China, where unique fan culture practices intersect with the proliferation of AI technology. Virtual idols, born from digital media technologies, authentically emulate real idols in performances and human interactions. While existing research primarily focuses on real-life idols in the interaction between celebrities and fans, limited attention has been given to understanding why fans gravitate toward virtual idols. Adopting the perspective of parasocial relationships (PSRs) and employing the survey method, this study explores the factors that drive fan community participation in virtual idol fandom within the context of Chinese society. The findings reveal that both interpersonal attractiveness and feelings of loneliness significantly influence the development of parasocial relationships between virtual idols and fans, and these PSRs positively impact fan community participation. Furthermore, this study elucidates that both the perceived interpersonal attractiveness of virtual idols and the loneliness experienced by fans directly contribute to increased fan community participation through the mediating effect of PSRs. This investigation scrutinizes the pivotal factors sustaining the relationship between virtual idols and fans, particularly in an era where AI-powered entities increasingly mirror human-like qualities and adeptly engage with audiences. This study highlights the characteristics of Chinese subculture and provides evidence for the “de-stigmatization” of subcultures in the era of AI, which contributes to a broader discourse on the impact of AI on diverse cultural practices. It underscores the necessity for global and contextual approaches in comprehending the evolving dynamics between virtual idols and their fan communities, enriching our understanding of AI’s influence on cultural phenomena.","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138962399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tracing urban transformations: Ni Weihua’s playful intervention in China’s evolving sociospatial landscape","authors":"Meiqin Wang","doi":"10.1177/20594364231222983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231222983","url":null,"abstract":"This article delves into the multifaceted public art project entitled Tracing, orchestrated by Shanghai artist Ni Weihua, within the context of China’s sweeping socioeconomic transformation, as reflected in the geographical, spatial, and visual transformations of urban peripheries. Beginning in 2018 when Ni initiated it by meticulously tracing around the pictorial vestiges adorning dilapidated walls in Shanghai’s urban outskirts using black acrylic paint, Tracing has evolved into a collaborative endeavor spanning the globe. This article explores the origins and development of Tracing, situating it within Ni’s body of work, which responds to the ever-changing spatial and visual landscapes of China’s urbanization. Blurring the boundaries of graffiti, drawing, performance art, conceptual art, documentary photography, and media art, Tracing serves as both documentation and embodiment of the ongoing struggle between state-led spatial production and grassroots initiatives in the face of urban regeneration and urban-rural integration efforts. This article contends that Tracing, through its artistic, playful, and liberating approach to spatial intervention and image creation, empowers Ni and other participants to engage with marginalized spaces, amplify the voices of disadvantaged communities, and complicate prevailing narratives of urban development in China and beyond. In doing so, it contributes to a bottom-up mode of visual knowledge production about urbanism and expands the role of art as a medium for public participation, collective expression, and community building.","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138959025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A silence meant to be heard: LIGNA’s radio ballet","authors":"Zheng Wan","doi":"10.1177/20594364231220159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231220159","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the role of sound in the transformation of social space and organization of noncentered group action through a case study of the series of radio ballets programmed by the German artist collective LIGNA. Typically, LIGNA uses portable audio devices and wireless technology to disseminate instructions to the radio ballet participants, directing them to make synchronized body gestures but not giving them fixed movement paths or identities. This process creates a conceptualized acoustic space parallel to the physical space, challenges the regulations that come with the privatization of public spaces, and dismantles the dichotomies between inside and outside, public and private, and physical and mental. I argue that the radio ballet participants, who form a decentralized, temporary, and mobile community, can explore new possibilities for political intervention in the public sphere through silent collective performances in which sound not only serves the important function of sidestepping visual censorship and avoiding physical conflict but also provides a new methodology for reshaping the order of social space.","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138593317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pluralising China as Method: Decolonising cultural mediations in the global South","authors":"Xiaotian Li, L. Tsang, T. Tse","doi":"10.1177/20594364231216265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231216265","url":null,"abstract":"The changing global landscape of imperialism, colonialism, and globalisation has urged scholars to reflect on and reexamine the lingering Eurocentric epistemology in media and cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, area studies, and other disciplines. The epistemological biases which currently exist in these academic disciplines hinder the development of a bottom-up theorisation and a thorough understanding of social and cultural phenomena. Recently, scholars in and beyond the global South have become more attentive to the inadequacy of a Eurocentric model of theorisation, and the idiosyncrasies of local societies. The rise of China, and its intensified international political, economic, and cultural exchanges with other Asian, middle-Eastern, and African countries, also make it imperative to move beyond a Eurocentric view in understanding the complexity of social and cultural dynamics within China and across the global South. Responding to this double inadequacy of Eurocentrism in terms of knowledge production in and for Asia, we build on the insightful arguments made, but also address their respective conceptual limits, in the “Asia as Method” and “trans-Asia as Method” approaches. While acknowledging Mizoguchi’s (2016) conception of “China as Method” which emphasises the empowerment of sinology, we seek to further rethink and pluralise such an existing epistemological approach to the study of media and culture in China. This double special issue brings together both reflective essays and empirical articles to examine the nuanced cross-border/cross-national cultural interactions and the intersectional dynamics of class, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity and national/local identities. It aims to rebuild the subjectivity and redefine the agency of Asia in the post-colonial and post-imperialist world order, using what we term as a “decolonial cultural perspective”, to understand the idiosyncrasies of local societies within a seemingly homogeneous Asian country. We propose China as Method as a useful approach for all humanities and social sciences researchers to critically rethink Eurocentrism and to avoid an essentialist form of Sinocentrism in the Asian context.","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139264512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A book review of TikTok: Creativity and culture in short video TikTok scholarships in the context of Chinese Douyin researchers","authors":"Jianfei Yang, Wenrui Wang","doi":"10.1177/20594364231214438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231214438","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139269312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/20594364231212135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231212135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135240869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Remark on China as Method","authors":"Anthony Fung","doi":"10.1177/20594364231214346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231214346","url":null,"abstract":"as","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135584487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}