Search Results for urban media

... remapped in the avant‐garde media practice in an era when “urban” and “media” became interconnected and filmic medium was redefined in relation to the vibrant media milieu. This essay is motivated by “the imperishables,” a prevalent trope that can be located in a wide array of literary and filmic works...

... mothers in mass media. Migrant mothers in the urban villages of China have learned and internalized this ideology of intensive mothering along with their rural-to-urban migration through reading and interactions with medical and educational experts. Based on eight months of ethnographic research in two...

... in marginalized areas. The alarming housing conditions of the urban poor on the fringes of China's capital have caught the attention of the media. Eye-catching tags such as “ant tribe” (Lian 2009 ) or “rat tribe” (Johnson 2015 ) have characterized migrants whose lives are dependent on the low rents...

...Jiyoung Suh This article examines the presence of Korean housemaids who worked for Japanese settlers in colonial Korea, 1910–45, and its connection to the urban landscape in the colony. It provides a historical investigation of the Korean housemaids who emerged among female workers in the urban...

..., are no different from the hometown boosterism of urban youth in other parts of China.63 These local-­language songs are part of a larger countermovement pro- moting the use of local language in local media to assert the identity...

...Tani Barlow This essay addresses a crucial object world of modern urban China, commodity advertising. It shows how attention to advertisements requires forceful wresting of images out of linear time. That the ads are themselves illustrations of linear time in popular narratives of modern history...

... be expressed in film and literature, which was not possible until the 1990s. This stems from a reevaluation of wartime suffering occurring now, a generation after the end of war in Vietnam in 1975. This also results from a gradual easing of state controls on arts and media in Vietnam in the 1990s. Recent...

... now. Lei tracks these popular, urban, media images when she takes as her subject entities like “fashion consciousness” and “cultural writing,” popular expressions that project reassuring norms of civilization against a backdrop of confounding...

... of urban media that is, critically, pregnant with not only expansive potentialities for change but also impoverishing constancies and reproductions.” Such new vocabularies are found in Jennifer Dorothy Lee's exposition on the artist Wu Guanzhong's (1919–2010) rearticulation of abstraction...

... industry; from urban media culture to a discourse of cultural populism rooted in the organic concepts of “the people” and of “the local”—most clearly borne out in instances of popular religion. In the articles gathered here, for example, two locales...

... Orders the World: Normative Soft Power and Foreign Policy (coedited, 2011), and China: The Pessoptimist Nation (2009). Ian Condry is professor of Japanese culture and media studies and head of Global Studies and Languages...

.... The term new media in this article refers mainly to the Internet and mobile phones, the use of which spread first among the urban elites and then proliferated among the middle class and the vast social strata of urban centers. China has...

... in order to take their art directly to society while moving onto the urban streets and exploiting the mass media. At the same time, in a marked contrast to this trend, many vanguard art- ists were absorbed into an emerging institution...

... Culture: The Cultural Route of Shenzhen in the Context of Urban Renewal (2019, in Chinese) and The Mechanism of Urban Cultural Governance from the Perspective of “Creative Assemblage” (2023, in Chinese). She is the guest editor for the special issue “Artistic Interventions in Community and Its Media...

... to transfer them to the realm of the spirit world. In the following, I share four aspects of Hanoian experiences during the fourth wave of the pandemic. I examine how urban dwellers have been affected by the pandemic in relation to (1) socialist propaganda as information apparatus, (2) media technologies...

... Eugene Roy Ananya Ward Kevin . 2013 . “Assembling/Worlding Cities.” Urban Geography 34 , no. 5 : 581 – 89 . Nam Sylvia . 2011 . “Phnom Penh: From the Politics of Ruin to the Possibilities of Return.” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review 22 , no. 1 : 55 – 68...

... in the field of China studies for her ethnography of rural-to-urban migration in China. Her research on the cultural politics of inequality can be found in her books, including Maid in China: Media, Morality and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries (2009), Subaltern China: Rural Migrants, Media and Cultural...

... of Asian Studies Conference, the World Congress of Korean Studies, and Mechademia. His research interests include animation, Japanese and Korean popular culture, global political economy, new media, and transnational fandoms. Peng Hai is assistant professor of modern China and Inner Asia in the Department...

..., and Eviction: Migrant Worker Literature and Media Practices in Contemporary China” held at the University of Chicago Center in Beijing in June 2019. The workshop brought together scholars and activists to discuss the ways in which migrant workers cope with dislocation and precarity through cultural practices...

... David Clarke, Hong Kong Art: Culture and Decolonization (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2001). Key examples found in media art, which Clarke’s book does not cover, are discussed in Alice Ming Wai Jim, “Urban Metaphors in Hong Kong Media...