... researchers put the question of how societies could be managed through media at the center of scholarly inquiry in the social sciences. World War I had taught thinkers and policymakers that mass communication technology could serve strategic needs by mobilizing, or demoralizing, populations psychologically...

... of China social theory mass society neoliberalism cultural turn When a discovery occasions the restructuring of current ideas, this is not due exclusively to logical considerations or, more particularly, to the contradiction between the discovery and particular elements in current views...

.... At the same time, stylistically, the film celebrates, or at least fully appreciates, the arrival of technological modernity by 1930, which enables the spectacles of lights in the form of a new visual medium for a mass-consumer society. Moreover, the motif of hands, which is enhanced by hard lighting...

... stance is in itself intriguing, since their chosen genre of expression is generally viewed in Europe and the United States as being inherently apolitical. Coupled with the fact that it is a musical genre without the same kind of mass public appeal as Mando-pop or Canto-pop makes one ask not only why...

... sociologists, psephologists, statisticians, and advertising agencies developed increasingly powerful tools to grasp and quantify the shifting moods of mass society. Although many of the key techniques of opinion research were pioneered in the United...

... key point is that in mod- ern mass society, inspired in imperialism and promoted in a contradictory policy under the governance policies of Chiang Kai-­shek, which restricted and invited globalization, “neutral” social spaces can be read...

... of popular participation to ensure continued mass support. However, the pressure to advance generalizable conclusions has led political scientists to focus on comparisons between, say, mass mobilization in China and Cold War theories of “mass society” (Tang 2016 ), or between, for example, the PRC's...

... figure in inter-Asian colonial modernity. Also, Park argues, “the promotion of a colonial woman against the background of a rising colo- nial cultural boom in Japanese mass society and her political use for the bet- terment of Japan’s relationship...

... defeat and humiliation and within the context of a democratic and progressive postwar national imaginary. As early as the mid-1950s, for example, advocates of Mass Society Theory (Taish shakai ron) such as Matsushita Keiichi were...

... premised the historical construction of the public sphere on particular notions of economic and national development. Maruyama’s ideas had their roots in theories of mass society (taish¯u shakai ron) in which the term...

... of society. Thus, for example, while Marxists were interested in the “process by which the daily consciousness of the masses was manipulated by the media, [Shis no kagaku writers attended more to] the daily practices of the masses themselves...

.... It is possibletofindaparallelexampleintheactualhistoricalconditionofmodern Japan. Mass society, emerging out of the newly produced material and social environment, was eventually reintegrated into the nation through the state institutions of universal male suffrage, the social security system...

... historical situation — the promotion of a colonial woman against the background of a rising colonial cultural boom in Japanese mass society and her political use for the improvement of Japan’s relationship with Asia and the United States...

... mass society in China, possessing the technologies to reshape seemingly “neutral” spaces was to wield the power to redefine social relations that were inextricably tied to global processes under the capitalist world market.5 Since the mid...

... of the growing force of mass culture, both approaches somehow still maintain a universalistic stand in evaluating the impact of the objective market economy on Chinese culture and society in general. Jing Wang has well elaborated...

... of the Bonapartist regime derives its power from organizing and representing the general will and common interest of the popular masses, thereby projecting itself as being superior to society proper. In this sense, the hegemonic links between the bureaucratic...

...- sition between state and civil society is thoroughly ambivalent. — Slavoj ŽiŽek, Contigency, Hegemony, Universality In February 1929 in the city of Kawasaki, the largest Korean Communist labor union in Japan, Rs, held a mass...

...) direction” within is founded through 1925-11 KAPF; formation a joining of Yo˘mgunsa Mass arrests of Sin’ganhoe and PASKYULA of Communists (New...

... will argue, through a modern mode of regulating — of cleansing and policing — mass culture that the state maintains its grip on society and works to realize the articulation of the public and private, state and society.7 How does the state...

... from the intellectuals to the proletarian masses.”19 Liu ❘❘ The Left-Wing Drama Movement in China and Its Relationship to Japan 457 From these comments we can see that the Shanghai Art Drama Society raised the issue of the direction...