This edited volume is first of its kind to document and critically analyse the changes took place snice Chinas opening-up and reform and its impact on Dongbei, Chinas North-East region, known for its remote and vast landscape, unique and othered culture, rich resources, mighty infrastructures and industries, geopolitical significance. Through presenting up-to-date and multidimensional case studies, the book covers three major aspects of Dongbei, which put people at the heart of our scholarly focus, namely peoples mediated life through traditional and new media; peoples social, cultural, and living spaces; artistic and fictional representations of peoples everyday life.
Part 1: Media representation and identity.
Chapter
1. The myth of
Dongbei in the news: A quantitative analysis of Northeast Chinas news media
representations (Xianwen KUANG and Kuangjian WU, XJTLU).
Chapter
2. A Mirror
between Two Cities: Postmodern Life of My Aunt (Ming REN, Shanghai Academy of
Social Sciences) .
Chapter
3. Suspense, Space and Subaltern Identity in
three Dongbei Writers Crime Stories (Xuying Yu and Xi Liu) .
Chapter
4.
Language, dialect and humour: Zhao Benshan, regional stereotypes and
discrimination (Lan GE, Nottingham Ningbo and Zhen Troy CHEN, UAL) .
Chapter
5.The Ecological Re-conception of Time and Space: Harbin in Chi Zijians
Fictional Works (Shuo Han, XJTLU).- Part 2: The reinstitution, economic
struggle and space.
Chapter
6. Taking typo-morphological evolution as a
lens: An economic and societal review of the transformation of urban areas in
Dalian (Han WANG, Donghua University) .
Chapter
7. Female factory workers
use of mobile phones: Walling outof the physical space of a factory compound
(Xin PEI, Nottingham Ningbo) .
Chapter
8. Sentiment, Morality and the
Vulnerable Rhetoric of Saving China: Kingly Way Manchukuo and the
Aestheticization of the Nation (Yuji Xu, CityUHK).- Part 3: Living in Dongbei
everyday life.
Chapter
9. Discourses on Minzu and ethnicity: Sibo living as
outsiders and minorities in Dongbei (Lei HAO, Nottingham Ningbo) .
Chapter
10. Old country folks, sharp young lads and talented large women: Dongbeis
micro-celebrities on social media platforms under the discourse of Dongbei
Renaissance (Zhen Troy Chen, Kuang, Liu, Han) .
Chapter
11. Affective
reflection on Dalian Peoples Stadium as a place in a densified memory of
football and everyday life (Jiawen HAN, XJTLU).
Zhen Troy Chen, PhD (Nottingham), FHEA, Senior Lecturer in Media, School of Communication and Creativity, City, University of London.
Jiawen Han, PhD (NSWS), FHEA, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Design School, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
Xianwen Kuang, PhD (SDU), FHEA, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communication, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
Xi Liu, PhD (HKU), FHEA, Associate Professor, Department of China Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
