Entrepreneurial solutionism, characteristic cultural industries and the Chinese dream

Keane, Michael; Chen, Ying

doi:10.1080/10286632.2017.1374382

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“…The advancement of internet industries in China has been associated with the political agenda of 'Chinese dream' and 'national rejuvenation' (Keane & Chen, 2017), which can be interpreted as an effort of the Chinese government to imbue Chinese technology industries and technology policies, such as renewable energy and ICTs, with techno-nationalism (Kennedy, 2013). Techno-nationalism is the belief that technology is a crucial element of national security and a vital national asset (Kennedy, 2013).…”

Section: Cultivating the Chinese Patriotic Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

#PositiveEnergyDouyin: constructing “playful patriotism” in a Chinese short-video application

Chen

Kaye

Zeng

2020

Chinese Journal of Communication

103

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In Chinese political discourse, "positive energy" (zheng nengliang) is a popular expression that has embodied mainstream political ideology in China since 2012. This term has also become prominent on Douyin, a prominent Chinese short-video platform. By June 2018, over 500 Chinese governmental accounts on Douyin had promoted positive energy in videos, and the content was viewed over 1.6 billion times. Douyin even created a separate trending section, Positive Energy, for videos that promoted the dominant state ideology. This study argues that the Positive Energy feature on Douyin is significant. The Chinese government has accused and even permanently shut down several digital platforms for spreading "vulgarity" as the antithesis of positive energy. Using the app walkthrough method and a content analysis of over 800 videos collected from the Positive Energy section of Douyin, this study explores how Douyin promotes the Chinese state's political agenda by promoting a new form of playful patriotism online.

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Section: Cultivating the Chinese Patriotic Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

#PositiveEnergyDouyin: constructing “playful patriotism” in a Chinese short-video application

Chen

Kaye

Zeng

2020

Chinese Journal of Communication

103

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“…The initial responseperhaps the only possible response other than silencewas to move online, seeking both some kind of income stream, and ways to keep in touch with, and maybe even expand, their audience, trying to keep the live spirt going (Raghav, 2020). The move to online streaming was made technologically and administratively easy give the massive investment in on-line infrastructure for the leisure and consumption economy made under the national government's "Internet plus" policy (Keane & Chen, 2017). Whilst it was clear "venues have all turned to live-streaming, collaborating with big streaming platforms such as Bilibili and Tencent, they are not equivalent to the indie scene organised primarily around Livehouses", according to Xu Bo, founder of indie label Merrie Records, a handful of indie record companies emerged in China in the last few years.…”

Section: Streamingthe New Normal?mentioning

confidence: 99%

The next normal: Chinese indie music in a post-COVID China

Domer

O’Connor

2020

Cultural Trends

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This article will discuss the impact of COVID-19 on Chinese cultural industries, in particular independent music based on live interviews with musicians, venue owners, labels and others in the Chinese music industry. On the one hand there are many state employees in the cultural industries, who are somewhat protected from immediate employment impacts; on the other there are many private sector companies, especially in Music, TV and Film, who have been severely impacted. China's social protections are not high, but at the same time neither are expectations of state help in terms of loss of income. In the music industry, the closing of all venues has had an inordinate impact on the already suffering "independent" sector (mainly due to lockdowns), with many music venues especially not expected ever to reopen. We ask whether the crisis forces the sector to re-evaluate its cultural value positioned in a heightened commercialised music industry. KEYWORDS Cultural and creative industries; cultural policy; Chinese indie music; post-COVID; live streaming; subcultural capital Can't you understand this reality by looking at me, mocking me, you distorted minds? What's left are sounds of cold beating hearts in the empty corridors. 3 These lyrics became eerily prescient of the reality of urban life in Wuhan during the pandemic. By mid-May, it seemed that VOX was unlikely ever to go back to business as usual and is struggling to pay rent for the first time since it opened. VOX's long-term closure

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“…88 Michael Keane and Ying Chen see the three, Robin Li, Jack Ma, and Ma Huateng, as insideroutsiders because they benefit by identifying with a western liberal ethos of individual success, but at the same time they are insiders because they are required to espouse a collectivist national agenda that calls for mass innovation, in which the revitalization of the nation is first and foremost. 89 If the delicate line between libertarian counter-culture and traditional socialist values that the BAT chiefs tread is stretched along a continuum, Ma Huateng would be closest to the socialist end and Li closer to the libertarian end. Jack Ma sits between the two polar opposites, mixing, matching, and proselytizing.…”

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Prophets of Mass Innovation: The Gospel According to BAT

Leong¹

2018

Media Industries Journal

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This article examines the role that the CEOs of China's tech giants (Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent [BAT]) play as advocates of China's vision of mass innovation. It seeks, first, to understand what mass innovation is and the conditions for its success and then goes on to divine how the three individuals involved-Jack Ma (Alibaba), Robin Li (Baidu), Ma Huateng (Tencent)-combine the narrative of Silicon Valley individuated cyber-libertarianism and the collectivist socialism of China to convert the grassroots over to the gospel of mass innovation. In doing so, it traces the rise and beliefs of the trio but uses primarily Jack Ma's and Alibaba's growing prominence in Southeast Asia as a case in point of BAT's influence outside of China.

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Entrepreneurial solutionism, characteristic cultural industries and the Chinese dream

Cited by 40 publications

References 13 publications

#PositiveEnergyDouyin: constructing “playful patriotism” in a Chinese short-video application

#PositiveEnergyDouyin: constructing “playful patriotism” in a Chinese short-video application

The next normal: Chinese indie music in a post-COVID China

Prophets of Mass Innovation: The Gospel According to BAT

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