KSCB160 Contemporary Chinese Society: Celebs, Sport, Drugs, and Sex

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Prof. Jonathan Sullivan (lecturer), Mgr. Bc. Denisa Hilbertová, M.A. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. Lucie Olivová, MA, Ph.D., DSc.
Department of Chinese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Bc. Denisa Hilbertová, M.A.
Supplier department: Department of Chinese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 10. 4. 10:50–12:25 U36, Wed 11. 4. 10:50–12:25 U35, Thu 12. 4. 15:50–19:05 U32, Fri 13. 4. 9:10–10:45 U32
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 45 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/45, only registered: 0/45, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/45
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course explores how the transition to market socialism and partial retreat of the state have created a freer, more individualistic and wealthier society, but also one in which the decline of socialist ideology and collectivist ways of life and previous certainties in the organization of life have affected attitudes and behaviours. The course will establish the socio-political parameters in which social expression and lifestyles are experienced, survey key processes such as urbanization and migration, and introduce concepts such as “liquid modernity” to help explain people’s responses. The course explores the following features of contemporary Chinese society: Chinese millenials; internet and gaming; celebrity industry; LGBTQ, gender and feminism; sex; music; drugs; football fans.
Syllabus
  • Lecture 1 Contemporary Chinese society
  • Lecture 2 China’s Millennials
  • Lecture 3 Consumption
  • Lecture 4 Internet and Gaming
  • Lecture 5 Celebrity industry
  • Lecture 6 Celebrity culture & fandoms
  • Lecture 7 LGBTQ, gender and feminism
  • Lecture 8 Sex
  • Lecture 9 Underground music
  • Lecture 10 Drugs and gangs
  • Lecture 11 Football ultras
  • More detailed syllabus is available in IS (study material).
Literature
  • Edwards, Louise, and Elaine Jeffreys. 2010. Celebrity in China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press
  • Han Han, This Generation. (Schuster, 2012).
  • De Kloet, Jeroen. 2010. China with a Cut: Globalization, Urban Youth and Popular Music. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
  • Fish, Eric. China's Millennials: The Want Generation. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
  • Gong, Yuan. "Online discourse of masculinities in transnational football fandom: Chinese Arsenal fans’ talk around ‘gaofushuai’and ‘diaosi’." Discourse & Society 27.1 (2016): 20-37.
  • Engrebretsen, Elisabeth L. and William F. Schroder (eds.) (with Hongwei Bao). 2015. Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures. Copenhagen: NIAS Press.
  • Moore, Robert L. "Generation ku: Individualism and China's millennial youth." Ethnology (2005): 357-376.
  • Chin, Kolin, and Roy Godson. "Organized crime and the political-criminal nexus in China." Trends in Organized Crime 9.3 (2006): 5.
  • Nie, Hongping Annie. "Gaming, Nationalism, and Ideological Work in Contemporary China: online games based on the War of Resistance against Japan." Journal of Contemporary China 22.81 (2013): 499-517.
  • Dong, Jinxia, and J. A. Mangan. "Football in the new China: Political statement, entrepreneurial enticement and patriotic passion." Soccer and Society 2.3 (2001): 79-100.
  • Li, Siling. 2009. "The turn to the self: From “big character posters” to YouTube videos." Chinese Journal of Communication 2(1), 50-60.
  • Jeffreys, Elaine and Haiqing Yu. 2015. Sex in China. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Tan, Jia. 2017. “Digital masquerading: Feminist media activism in China.” Crime, Media, Culture 13(2), 171 -186.
  • Liu, Chen. 2014. “Noise in Guangzhou: The Cultural Politics of Underground Popular Music in Contemporary Guangzhou.” Area 46(3), 228 -234.
  • Yu, LiAnne. Consumption in China: How China's new consumer ideology is shaping the nation. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
  • Evans, Harriet. 2008. Sexed Bodies, Sexualized Identities, and the Limits of Gender. China Information 22(2), 361-386.
  • Chen, An. "Secret societies and organized crime in contemporary China." Modern Asian Studies 39.1 (2005): 77-107.
  • Wallis, Cara. "New media practices in China: Youth patterns, processes, and politics." International Journal of Communication 5 (2011): 31.
  • JACKA, Tamara, Andrew B. KIPNIS and Sally SARGESON. Contemporary China : society and social change. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, xii, 311. ISBN 9781107011847. info
  • Online society in China : creating, celebrating, and instrumentalising the online carnival. Edited by David Kurt Herold - Peter Marolt. London: Routledge, 2011, xi, 216. ISBN 9780203828519. info
  • FONG, Vanessa L. Only hope : coming of age under China's one-child policy. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004, x, 242. ISBN 9780804753302. info
  • TURNER, Graeme. Understanding celebrity. 1st pub. London: Sage Publications, 2004, vi, 148. ISBN 0761941673. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, class presentations, class discussions.
Assessment methods
1) Active participation in the class; no absence allowed.
2) Final test.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2019, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2018, recent)
  • Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/phil/spring2018/KSCB160