Media and Popular Culture in China – Choose a media product/event/phenomena/platform/personnel from the realm of Chinese popular culture and analyze it according to at least 3 major themes (major themes: 1. positionality 2. censorship 3. cultural essentialist perspective 4. china’s reintergration into the global capitalist system 5. cultural consumption and lifestyle changes) raised in class in a critical essay. The goal of this essay is essentially to demonstrate that you have achieved the learning objectives of the class:

1. Awareness of self as a producer of knowledge on popular culture and media from China
2. Familiarity with the institutions and dynamics of China’s media systems as they have contributed to China’s nation-building.
3. Ability to discuss the role of commercialized media and cultural industries in the process of legitimation in post-Maoist market reforms
4. Ability to debate cultural politics, social conflicts, and resistance in concrete historical, political, cultural, and socio-economic contexts in reform-era China.

You may want to conduct a case study and relate it to the wider cultural, political-economic, and historical contexts, both domestically and globally. Strong papers will use well detailed examples to support their theoretical arguments. please take advantage of both my office and your TA’s office hours to talk about your ideas and to receive feedback and suggestions for further research.

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