From cyber-nationalism to fandom nationalism: the case of Diba expedition in China

Song, Zheng

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2020.1825772

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“…In addition to nationalist digital vigilantism, other types of social mobilization triggered by nationalism are also rising in China, which is widely discussed in both the public media (Deng & Lin, 2020;Yang, 2019) and academic research (H. Liu, 2019;Luqiu & Kang, 2021;Schneider, 2018;Y. Zhang et al, 2018).…”

Section: Mobilization Of Chinese Digital Nationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another intersection with Chinese nationalist mobilization that deserves more attention is its confluence with gender and misogyny. While many western scholars demonstrate the synergy of misogyny and populist nationalism in rightwing discourses and mobilization (Bjork-James, 2020;Bratich & Banet-Weiser, 2019;Cloud, 2009;Guy, 2021;Vowles & Hultman, 2021;Wilson, 2020), only some scholars who study Chinese nationalism pay attention to such synergy, including Fang and Repnikova (2018), T. Liu andPeng (2022). As Anand (2022) states, investigating how gender and nationalism intersect can shed light on "how gendered identity gets shaped through a nationalist discourse which, in turn, (re)produces a national identity" (p. 302).…”

Section: Mobilization Of Chinese Digital Nationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Discursive Construction of Populist and Misogynist Nationalism: Digital Vigilantism Against Unpatriotic Intellectual Women in China

Huang

2023

Social Media + Society

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The phenomenon of nationalist digital vigilantism targeting Chinese intellectual women is rising in China. To illustrate how national identities and social exclusion are discursively constructed, as well as the potential vulnerabilities experienced by Chinese female intellectuals, four high-profile cases that took place between 2017 and 2021 are chosen. Critical discourse analysis is conducted on collected Sina Weibo comments, WeChat public account articles, and news articles published by state-run media. The research identifies three main discourses: the ungrateful traitor, the corrupt elite, and the ugly slut. These discursive interactions demonstrate the fluidity of both discursive and operational conditions in nationalist digital vigilantism, which amplifies the targets’ vulnerability. This research contributes to the study of misogynist populist nationalism by providing an empirical analysis in an under-studied social context—China, and to the study of Chinese populist nationalism by foregrounding an under-studied perspective—misogyny.

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Section: Mobilization Of Chinese Digital Nationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mobilization Of Chinese Digital Nationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Discursive Construction of Populist and Misogynist Nationalism: Digital Vigilantism Against Unpatriotic Intellectual Women in China

Huang

2023

Social Media + Society

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“…Due to the opacity of Chinese governance, it is unclear as to whether these netizens helped prompt subsequent PRC (People's Republic of China) military escalation or if popular opinion had been stoked by PRC operatives, though as Peter Gries, Derek Steiger and Wang Tao (2016) argue, it is frequently the case that the CCP, to maintain legitimacy, takes cues from publicly expressed nationalist opinion. Similarly, the 'Diba expedition' of 2016 demonstrated the readiness of Chinese netizens such as 'little pinks' to engage in 'hot nationalism' against Taiwanese netizens and demonstrated how online fan cultures infuse contemporary Chinese online nationalism as part of a shift from 'cyber nationalism to fan nationalism' (Liu, 2019a).…”

Section: Nationalism In Chinamentioning

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Soft nationalism and China: A case study of nationalism in short videos by US-Chinese rapper MC Jin

Xiao,

Davis,

Dong

2023

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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In this article we introduce the concept of soft nationalism through a case-study analysis of short videos by US-born rapper MC Jin (Jin Au-Yeung), who is of Chinese background. Jin's creative output, we argue, with its cross-cultural and grassroots invocations of Chinese identity, ethnicity, tradition, language and belonging, complicates existing theories of nationalism. To address these complications we develop the term ‘soft nationalism’, to describe forms of nationalism that are neither ‘hard’, ‘hot’ and bellicose nor ‘banal’ or ‘everyday’. Like soft power, soft nationalism carries intent but speaks quietly, and is practised everywhere but often found in China, in the context of a recent surge of participatory online nationalism.

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“…Nationalistic sentiments have become increasingly common on digital platforms and social media sites since the 2000s (Han, 2018;Jiang, 2015;Liu, 2019;Schneider, 2018). With tech-savvy youth leading the way, Chinese internet users initiated an online petition opposing Japan's bid to serve on the United Nations Security Council in 2005, mobilized anti-French boycotts in reaction to the disruption of the torch relay in France before the 2008 Olympics, posted pro-regime messages voluntarily to online discussion boards, and flooded Facebook pages with comments opposing Taiwan's independence from China after Tsai Ing-wen became the island's first female leader in 2016 (Dong, 2016;Han, 2016;Kahn, 2005).…”

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“…These organized and strategic communicative actions by Weibo users closely approximated those of the xiao fen hong group, the members of which adopted practices of idol worship to express patriotism and spread memes and slogans such as 'no idol before the nation'. Thus, they represent evidence of a 'fandom nationalistic' trend, with nationalists, much like fan groups, using digital affordances to their advantage and engaging in various activities (Liu, 2019).…”

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Consumer nationalism in digital space: A case study of the 2017 anti-lotte boycott in China

Liao

Xia²

2022

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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This study advances the understanding of consumer nationalism through an analysis of a Chinese boycott of South Korean goods. In early 2017, Chinese internet users expressed their strong aversion to the South Korean conglomerate Lotte and coordinated a folk boycott against it on the grounds that Lotte supported South Korea’s deployment of the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile system, which China considered a threat. We explored the increasing convergence of consumer activities in the form of consumer nationalism with commercial entities’ marketing strategies and also with the state’s interests with respect to security and promoting national pride. The internet and new technologies have facilitated grassroots nationalist activities in terms of the ready circulation of information and mobilization of collective actions. We investigated a digital discursive space in the communicative interactions among stakeholders through which digital media not only amplify the scale and intensity of the mundane and everyday practice of nationalism but also blur the boundaries among the participating actors. Our research documented the multilateral relationships among stakeholders – individual consumers/media users, commercial entities, and the state – in practicing nationalism and reproducing the nation through (non)consumption.

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From cyber-nationalism to fandom nationalism: the case of Diba expedition in China

Cited by 9 publications

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The Discursive Construction of Populist and Misogynist Nationalism: Digital Vigilantism Against Unpatriotic Intellectual Women in China

The Discursive Construction of Populist and Misogynist Nationalism: Digital Vigilantism Against Unpatriotic Intellectual Women in China

Soft nationalism and China: A case study of nationalism in short videos by US-Chinese rapper MC Jin

Consumer nationalism in digital space: A case study of the 2017 anti-lotte boycott in China

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