{"product_id":"digital-china-creativity-and-community-in-the-sinocybersphere-9789463720670","title":"Digital China: Creativity and Community in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the past decade, digital technologies have profoundly reshaped the Chinese cultural landscape. With a focus on the creative agency of new media and online communities, this volume examines this development through the notion of the Sinocybersphere - the networked spaces across the globe that not only operate on the Chinese script, but also imaginatively negotiate the meanings of Chinese culture in the digital age. Instead of asking what makes the internet or new media “Chinese,” the chapters situate contemporary entanglements of cultural and digital practices within specific historical, social, and discursive contexts. Covering topics as diverse as live-streaming, AI poetry, online literature, poetry memes, cyberpunk fiction, virtual art exhibitions, cooking videos, censorship, and viral translations, the collection as a whole not only engages with a wide range of Chinese new media phenomena, but also demonstrates their relevance to our understanding of contemporary digital culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003eNote on Romanisation \u003cbr\u003eList of Figures \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Locating digital China - by Jessica Imbach \u003cbr\u003e1 Re-inventing tianxia: Coming-of-age in xuanhuan fantasy fiction - by Cui Qian \u003cbr\u003e2 An online world of their own: Rethinking danmei fiction through a reading of A Tale of Jujube Valley - by Jin Sujie \u003cbr\u003e3 Hong Kong’s digital literary field: Serialization, adaptation, and readership - by Helena Wu \u003cbr\u003e4 Virtual conciliation: (Un-)Coding the split between tradition and modernity in Chinese artificial intelligence poetry - by Joanna Krenz \u003cbr\u003e5 Poetry as meme: The Xiangpi ..literature project, online replicators, and printed “archives” - by Paula Teodorescu \u003cbr\u003e6 Cooking authenticity: Li Ziqi, affective labour, and China’s influencer culture - by Rui Kunze \u003cbr\u003e7 Affective labour on Kuaishou: Sister Zhao and her cyber karaoke bar - by He Mengyun \u003cbr\u003e8 Network fantasies: Liu Cixin’s China 2185, digital Futurism, and history as computer code - by Jessica Imbach \u003cbr\u003e9 Cyborg resistance: Chen Qiufan’s The Waste Tide, dirty computers and the afterlives of digital things - by Zoe Goldstein \u003cbr\u003e10 Virtual art in times of crisis: curatorial practices during the Covid-19 pandemic in China and Malaysia - by Helen Hess and Diyi Mergenthaler \u003cbr\u003e11 Viral text: Translation, censorship, community - by Elvin Meng \u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors \u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Amsterdam University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473239904599,"sku":"9789463720670","price":107.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789463720670.jpg?v=1744905821","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/digital-china-creativity-and-community-in-the-sinocybersphere-9789463720670","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}