Identity, Space, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Northeast China

This edited volume is first of its kind to document and critically analyse the changes took place snice China’s opening-up and reform and its impact on Dongbei, China’s 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 multidi...

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This edited volume is first of its kind to document and critically analyse the changes took place snice China’s opening-up and reform and its impact on Dongbei, China’s 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 people’s mediated life through traditional and new media; people’s social, cultural, and living spaces; artistic and fictional representations of people’s everyday life.

Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries, City, University of London, London, UK

Zhen Troy Chen

Department of Architecture, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

Jiawen Han

Department of Media and Communication, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

Xianwen Kuang

Department of China Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, Chin...

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Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries, City, University of London, London, UK

Zhen Troy Chen

Department of Architecture, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

Jiawen Han

Department of Media and Communication, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

Xianwen Kuang

Department of China Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

Xi Liu

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.

Front Matter
Pages i-xix
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Introduction
Zhen Troy Chen, Jiawen Han, Xianwen Kuang, Xi Liu
Pages 1-15
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Front Matter
Pages i-xix
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Introduction
Zhen Troy Chen, Jiawen Han, Xianwen Kuang, Xi Liu
Pages 1-15
The Mediated Dongbei and Its Realities
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Pages 17-17
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From Mythologicalization to Stigmatization of Dongbei? An Analysis of North-East China’s News Media Representations
Kuangjian Wu, Xianwen Kuang
Pages 19-41
The Economic Geography of Resource-based Cities in North-East China
Kevin Lo
Pages 43-66
Media Representation and Identity Construction
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Pages 67-67
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Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed: Zhao Benshan’s Comedy Sketches in the Spring Festival Gala and Their Impact on the Regional Stereotypes of North-East China
Lan Ge, Zhen Troy Chen
Pages 69-92
Unsettling the Spatial in Identity Construction: Mediating Homecoming from Homeless Shanghai to Dystopian Dongbei in The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
Hui Miao
Pages 93-117
Social and Spatial Changes in Contemporary Dongbei
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Pages 119-119
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Affective Reflection on the Dalian People’s Stadium as an Everyday Place
Jiawen Han
Pages 121-145
The Simplified Complexity: The Story of Harbin Blocks and Corners
Nan Ye
Pages 147-169
Decoding Culture-Embedded Urban Forms: A Hierarchical Analysis of Dongguan Street Area in Dalian, China
Han Wang, Guang Cheng
Pages 171-192
Artistic Expressions of Everyday Life in Dongbei
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Pages 193-193
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Contemporary Representation of Alcoholism in Neo-Dongbei Literature by Jia Hangjia and “Three Icons of Dongbei Renaissance”
Aiqing Wang
Pages 195-222
Crime as Historical Testimony: Narrative Suspense in Neo-Dongbei Literature
Xuying Yu
Pages 223-245
The Reconfigured Narratives of Class and Gender in Representing Social Changes: From the Full-Length Novel to the Television Series of A Lifelong Journey
Xi Liu
Pages 247-271
Back Matter
Pages 273-294
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