Hosts
Hannah, Communication Studies
William, School of English
Guest
波子, Communication Studies
本期出现了很多残酷二选一界的天问。
Highlights
如何应对文化传统在开放社会的庸俗化、片面化？低门槛会带来庸俗化的风险吗？大众的文化传承是否是一个伪命题？究竟要怎样看待知识民主化？
消费资本主义对于进步主义文化来说意味着什么？
中产阶级在中国指代的是哪一群人？他们产生过一种中产阶级文化吗？这个词语对应着某种历史责任吗？
Is the debasement of cultural traditions a problem? Is cultural heritage of the masses a false proposition? How to evaluate the democratisation of knowledge?
How can consumer capitalism impact progressivist culture?
What group of people does 'middle class' refer to in China? Have they produced a middle-class culture? Does the term correspond to some kind of historical responsibility?
BGM
Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford. (2020). BAME Medea (Oxford University BAME Drama Society). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SsIHyRwGt8
Materials Mentioned
William's
Fukuyama, F. (2006). The end of history and the last man. Simon and Schuster.
Barton, D., Chen, Y., & Jin, A. (2013). Mapping China’s middle class. McKinsey Quarterly, 3(2013), 54-60.
Chen, J., & Lu, C. (2011). Democratization and the middle class in China: The middle class’s attitudes toward democracy. Political Research Quarterly, 64(3), 705-719.
Goodman, D. S. (2016). Locating China’s Middle Classes: social intermediaries and the Party-state. Journal of Contemporary China, 25(97), 1-13.
Hannah's
Liao, Y. (2001). The Corpse Walker: China From The Bottom Up[中国底层访谈录]. Changjiang literature & art publishing house[长江文艺出版社].
Lin, J.-P., & Yi, C.-C. (2013). A comparative analysis of intergenerational relations in East Asia. International Sociology, 28(3), 297–315. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580913485261
Stein, L., & Busse, K. (2009). Limit Play: Fan Authorship between Source Text, Intertext, and Context. Popular Communication, 7(4), 192–207. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405700903177545
Stephen, D., & Minglu Chen. (2013). Middle class China: identity and behaviour. Edward Elgar.
Yan, Y. (2017). The Rise of Neo-Familism in Contemporary China [Video/moving image]. In East Asia Program, Cornell University. https://hdl.handle.net/1813/69507. (n.d.).
