Digital China Creativity and Community in the Sinocybersphere

Instead of asking what makes the internet or new media "Chinese," this volume situate contemporary entanglements of cultural and digital practices within specific historical, social, and discursive contexts.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Imbach, Jessica
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2024 Taylor & Francis Group
Edition:	1
Subjects:	Asian China Chinese Creative ability in technology Cultural and media studies Digital Digital media Digital, video and new media arts History of art Information technology literature Media Studies Non-graphic and electronic art forms Social Science Society and culture: general Society and Social Sciences The Arts The Arts: art forms The Arts: treatments and subjects Digital and Social Media ART China, literature, digital media, art Digital, video and new media arts Society and culture: general South Digital Asian Media studies AUP Wetenschappelijk Cultural Studies China Chinese SOCIAL SCIENCE East Asia and North East Asia Asian Studies Literary studies: general
ISBN:	9789463720670, 9463720677, 9789048555215, 9048555213
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Table of Contents:

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Romanisation -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Locating Digital China -- 1 Re-Inventing Tianxia: Coming-of-Age in Xuanhuan Fantasy Fiction -- 2 An Online World of Their Own: Rethinking Danmei Fiction through a Reading of A Tale of Jujube Valley -- 3 Hong Kong's Digital Literary Field: Serialisation, Adaptation, and Readership -- 4 Virtual Conciliation: (Un-)Coding the Split between Tradition and Modernity in Chinese Artificial Intelligence Poetry -- 5 Poetry as Meme: The Xiangpi Literature Project, Online Replicators, and Printed "Archives" -- 6 Cooking Authenticity: Li Ziqi, Affective Labour, and China's Influencer Culture -- 7 Affective Labour on Kuaishou: Sister Zhao and her Cyber Karaoke Bar -- 8 Network Fantasies: Liu Cixin's China 2185, Digital Futurism, and History as Computer Code -- 9 Cyborg Resistance: Chen Qiufan's The Waste Tide, Dirty Computers and the Afterlives of Digital Things -- 10 Virtual Art in Times of Crisis: Curatorial Practices During the Covid-19 Pandemic in China and Malaysia -- 11 Viral Text: Translation, Censorship, Community -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index