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Third-Person Pronouns, Gender and the Han Gaze in the Chinese Modern Languages Classroom
No full textSmile Yourself Happy: Zheng nengliang and the Discursive Construction of Happy Subjects
No full textA vibrant discourse linking happiness and well-being to zheng nengliang 正能量 (“positive energy”) has emerged in China since 2012. Drawing from a variety of disciplines and cultural resources, including positive psychology and ancient cosmological notions, zheng nengliang as a discursive practice is inseparable from wider processes that connect emotional intelligence and happiness with subject- and class-making in the reform era. This chapter outlines the holistic and embodied dimensions of zheng nengliang in popular discourse, and examines how zheng nengliang is used to express emotional well-being and socioeconomic stratification in four public service adverts. Contributing fresh insights into how happiness is promulgated and how happy subjects are constructed in China, it extends the scholarly literature at the intersections of Chinese studies, happiness studies, and media studies
Introduction : Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age
No full textWhy is it important to study contemporary Chinese men and masculinities from a transnational perspective? One good reason is that in today’s globalizing world concepts of Chinese masculinity and Chinese men themselves are increasingly part of transnational circulations of people, ideas, images, and objects. Another is that the ongoing integration of post-Mao China into global capitalist markets has led in turn to the increasing influence of Chinese men and masculinities across the world. The impetus of globalization inflects the configurations of masculinities in China’s postsocialist era with transnational dimensions: the resulting hybrid masculinities of Chinese men in China and elsewhere cannot be ignored. This chapter addresses these issues with the following aims: to highlight some of the most significant transnational aspects of contemporary Chinese men and masculinities; to show how these aspects are imbricated with other more locally embedded notions and practices of masculinity; and to explore the significance of these shifts for the Chinese gender order
The Cosmopolitan Dream : Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age
No full textThe Cosmopolitan Dream presents the broad patterns in the transformations of mainland Chinese masculinity over recent years, covering both representations (in film, fiction, and on television) and the lived experiences of Chinese men on four continents. Exposure to myriad forms of transnational influences has turned Chinese notions of masculinity cosmopolitan, and yet the configurations of these hybrid masculinities retain the imprint of Chinese historical models. Contributors find that global interconnectivity of markets has made the highly mobile transnational business masculinity the hegemonic form of manhood, but the fusion of this kind of cosmopolitanism with Chinese characteristics comes with a hierarchical espousal of educated men’s class and gender privileges. The traditionally prized intellectual masculinity in Chinese culture has by now reconciled with dominant business values. Together they shape the outlook of the contemporary generation of Chinese elites. At the same time globalization has increased the cross-country mobility of blue-collar Chinese men, who may possess a masculine ideal which is different from that of the white collars. These discussions demand a more detailed examination of the recent, reform-era mainland Chinese migration. The migrant man – whether he is a worker, student, or author (among the cases studied in this volume) – could face challenges to his masculinity based on his perceived race, class, intimate partners, and how he negotiates fatherhood. The strategies adopted by Chinese men to reinvent their masculine identities in these concrete human stories offer much insight into the complex connections between masculinity and the rapid socioeconomic developments of postsocialist China
Critical Pedagogies for Modern Languages Education : Criticality, Decolonization, and Social Justice
No full textIn the context of Black Lives Matter, decolonizing initiatives, #MeToo, climate emergency protests and other movements for social and environmental justice, this volume posits a simple question: how can modern languages be taught so that they challenge rather than reinforce social inequalities? Informed by interdisciplinary theories, Critical Pedagogies for Modern Language Education focuses on practical discussions of case studies in areas directly relevant to the classroom contexts of modern languages educators. The volume transforms modern language educators and the modern language profession by putting the politics of language teaching at the centre of its analysis. With case studies covering 12 languages (Modern Standard Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Levantine, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamazight) across 14 countries and regions (Austria, Brazil, China, France, Italy, Kenya, the Levant, Morocco, the Netherlands, Palestine, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the USA), the contributors cover a wide range of theories, including critical discourse analysis, activist pedagogies, culturally sustaining pedagogy, linguistic justice and translanguaging. With student-teacher collaboration at its heart, critical modern languages pedagogy unmasks the ideologies and hegemonies that lie behind mainstream language use and affirms the value of minority linguistic and cultural practices. The volume thus provides transformative approaches to modern languages teaching and learning that respond to the key social concerns of the 21st century
English for creative resistance: Critical pedagogy in a teacher education programme in Palestine
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Global and Local Phallic Creativity::Intertextuality in Feng Tang’s Construction of Masculinity
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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