Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies最新文献

{"title":"Literary Theory and Cultural Practice of “Metaverse” in China","authors":"Chun Feng Chen","doi":"10.1080/02560046.2023.2269238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2023.2269238","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51850,"journal":{"name":"Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135169031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital Globalization, Fan Culture and Transmedia Storytelling: The Rise of Web Fiction as a Burgeoning Literary Genre in China","authors":"You Wu","doi":"10.1080/02560046.2023.2228856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2023.2228856","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTDigital globalization has established an interconnected virtual world, and profoundly transformed the landscape of literary practice. Anchored in the digital context, the development of new media technologies has exerted substantial influence on literature's context and mode of existence, giving rise to Internet literature, a new form of literary expression based on interactivity, hypertextuality and multimedia. Over the past two decades, the new media landscape opens up opportunities for the thriving development of Chinese web fiction, which is intrinsically a transmedia, fan-driven and – oriented text. With this in mind, this paper analyzes the rise of Chinese web fiction as a compelling cultural phenomenon, and argues that its operation model presents an exemplary alternative to how literature can benefit from new media technologies and reap the interests of digital globalization.KEYWORDS: Chinese web fictiondigital globalizationfan culturetransmedia storytellinginternet literature Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Miller first proposed this idea in a symposium titled “The Future of Literary Theory: China and the World” held in Beijing in 2000. He delivered a speech entitled “Will Literary Study Survive the Age of Globalization?” later translated into Chinese and published in Wenxue Pinglun (文学评论) [Literary Review, a top literary journal in China.2 This idea was first put forward at the Beijing Symposium in 2000, and later reproduced in various versions.3 A collection of J. Hillis Miller's essays was published in 2016, with the title being Literature Matters.4 It is widely accepted among Chinese academics that the year 1998 announced the symbolic commencement of Chinese Internet literature. Actually, Chinese Internet literature was cultivated outside China. During the early 1990s, writing on the web, as a literary practice, first appeared in the Chinese-language online forums established by overseas Chinese students based in North America. Ever since China's official connection to the Internet in 1994, the websites and bulletin boards devoted to literary writing and publishing developed rapidly.5 When talking about Chinese Internet Literature, this paper refers to web fiction.9 Yuewen Literature is also known as China Literature Corporation (the English name on its official website), which is the leading corporation that dominates the web fiction market today, under the wing of Chinese tech behemoth Tencent.6 Dragon Sky was the leader around 2003, but it adopted a business model of offline publishing, which later proved to be a failure.10 In 2015, Shengda Literature merged with Tencent Literature to form Yuewen Literature Corporation (阅文集团).11 It is now in partnership with Baidu, a Chinese tech behemoth.7 Source of statistics from Tencent Video, https://v.qq.com/x/cover/m441e3rjq9kwpsc.html, accessed September 6, 2022.8 This term, coined by French philosopher Pierre Lévy, is idea","PeriodicalId":51850,"journal":{"name":"Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136209902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Classical Chinese Gardens as a Medium: Rethinking the Visual Transformation in Chinese Culture in the Twentieth Century","authors":"Qi Shen, Yan Liu","doi":"10.1080/02560046.2023.2263055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2023.2263055","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe enormous diversity between the Chinese and Western cultures led to two different visual principles. Western visuality followed the perspective based on the retina, while the Chinese painters used the “far and near method” (yuanjin fa 遠近法). Before the twentieth century, the representation and dissemination of Chinese gardens at the visual level were dominated by traditional landscape painting. However, the Chinese gardens’ visual representation gradually shifted from traditional landscape painting to Western cartographic techniques (site survey and photography) after the Opium War (1840–1860). When studying the history of Chinese gardens, images provide a symbolic reference for interpreting the past of these gardens as crucial visual evidence. This article uses the visual evidence of classical Chinese gardens as a medium to reveal the influence and role of Western-centric theories on Chinese culture. Fundamentally, this paper attempts to analyse the impact of these changes on the inheritance of cultural memory from an intercultural and interdisciplinary perspective.KEYWORDS: VisualityChinese gardenlandscape paintinggarden surveygarden photography AcknowledgementsI would like to thank my colleagues and friends in CUHK for their comments and suggestions on my article.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Mencius said, “When observing someone, there is nothing more telling than the pupil of the eye. In the pupil, one’s wickedness cannot be concealed. When one is correct within one’s innermost being, the pupil will be clear. When one is not correct within one’s innermost being, the pupil will be dull. If one listens to his words and observes the pupils of his eyes, what can a person hide?” See in (Mencius Citation2009, 84).2 In Zong Bing’s words, “Kunlun Mountain is huge, and (human’s) eyes are small. If the eyes are very close to Kunlun Mountain, then the shape of it cannot be seen. If there are dozens of miles away from Kunlun Mountain, the entire shape of the mountain will fall into the eyes. Because the farther eyes are from the landscape, the smaller shape painter sees, and the scenery will be contained within the range that the painter can see. Assuming a greater distance, the smaller the shape seen. Now we unfold the silk and draw the landscape in the distance. Then, such small silk can reproduce even the shape of high mountains like Kunlun Mountain and Langfeng Mountain (阆风山). If the painter draws a three-inch line vertically, he can express very high mountains; if the painter draws a few feet horizontally with ink, he can reflect a hundred miles away. When the painter looks at landscape paintings, the only thing he may be afraid of is that the painting skills are not good enough, but the scale will not affect the realism of the landscape images. It is a natural trend. Therefore, the beauty of Songshan and Huashan and the natural aura between heaven and earth can all be expressed","PeriodicalId":51850,"journal":{"name":"Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135458562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern and Premodern China: Global Networks, Mediation, and Intertextuality","authors":"Zhang Ya, Wang Shanshan","doi":"10.1080/02560046.2023.2189740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2023.2189740","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51850,"journal":{"name":"Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135488448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dismantling Cultural Borders Through Social Media and Digital Communications: How Networked Communities Compromise Identity","authors":"Han Xiao, Lei Li","doi":"10.1080/02560046.2023.2181837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2023.2181837","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51850,"journal":{"name":"Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136173740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}