The New Chinese Individual: Confronting the Divided Self in<i>Ne Zha: Birth of the Demon Child</i>

Chen, Shih-Wen; Lau, Sin Wen

doi:10.1080/10357823.2021.1884647

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“…Male coaches were portrayed in a humanistic and paternalistic light in the aforementioned discourses. Their figures matched the party's symbolic father figure for Chinese citizens (Chen & Lau, 2021). Coaches' emotional authority in grooming bewildered children into elite athletes thus mirrored the party-state's biopolitical project of cultivating ideal citizens (Pun & Qiu, 2020).…”

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Incommensurability Between “Filial Daughter” and “All-Capable Princess”: Discursive Legitimation in Chinese Media Coverage of Quan Hongchan and Gu Eileen

Yang

2023

Communication & Sport

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This study investigated how Chinese media employed discursive legitimation strategies to incorporate the atypical identities of Quan Hongchan and Gu Eileen into the party-state’s cultural and emotional governance. A critical discourse analysis revealed that multifaceted tensions were (re)produced in media constructions of these two remarkable sporting heroines. By portraying Quan as an exemplar of “socialist filial daughter,” Chinese media hoped to mobilize underclass youth to make strong commitment to nation building. These discursive efforts nevertheless made Quan’s self-empowerment cruelly optimistic insofar as the intersection of her bodily vulnerability, excessive social expectations, and state patriarchal paternalism was concerned. In contrast, Chinese media portrayed Gu as a “neoliberal all-capable princess with Chinese characteristics” to alleviate social discontent regarding the upper class’s unlimited transnational mobility and capital accumulation. Anti-Occidentalist discourses were intertwined with Western-imported self-entrepreneurship in Gu’s case, reflecting the party-state’s anxiety and desire to nurture cosmopolitan subjects. The parallel inclusion of Quan’s and Gu’s ostensibly incommensurable upbringings into the “sporting superpower” narratives, in turn, demonstrated the significance of discursive legitimation for Chinese media to construct “ideologically correct” sporting hero(in)es in the global neoliberal era.

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“…As Quan exemplified, youth growing up in this emotional ambiance learned to restrain themselves early on. This ability allowed them to work toward becoming ideal Chinese citizens who could overcome obstacles in life and take control of their future through personal efforts (Chen & Lau, 2021).…”

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Incommensurability Between “Filial Daughter” and “All-Capable Princess”: Discursive Legitimation in Chinese Media Coverage of Quan Hongchan and Gu Eileen

Yang

2023

Communication & Sport

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Taming the Rebellious Child: The Adaptation of Nezha in Three Chinese Animations of the Socialist and Post-Socialist Eras

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Wang

2021

Child Lit Educ

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The transformation of images of Nezha and the changing cultural discourses in Chinese national style animated films from 1979 to 2019

2024

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Nezha is a mythological and dynamic character in the Chinese cultural discourse. In traditional China, the mythological character of Nezha represents a cultural integration between Daoism and Buddhism. By applying the Chinese animated films as an approach, this article focuses on exploring the changing cultural discourses of the Chinese national style in post-Maoist cinema through critical analysis of the character of Nezha and the deployment of Daoist philosophy in the construction of Chinese national style from the post-Cultural Revolution context to the post-Socialist context. This article examines two Chinese national-style animated films. The first film is Nezha Naohai (1979) which was produced in 1979, and another animated film is Nezha Zhi Motong Jiangshi (2019) which was produced in contemporary China. Through the film and cultural analysis of Nezha Naohai (1979), this article argues that the Daoist philosophy engages in the cultural discourse of Chinese national style and shapes the narrative, rhetoric, aesthetics and characterisation of Nezha in the post-Cultural Revolution context. The contemporary film Nezha Zhi Montong Jiangshi (2019) reflects an ideological change in the discourse of Chinese soft power states the power of Chinese culture including Daoist philosophy within a modern and scientific paradigm, which promotes a more international Chinese national identity and national style.

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The New Chinese Individual: Confronting the Divided Self inNe Zha: Birth of the Demon Child

Cited by 3 publications

References 25 publications

Incommensurability Between “Filial Daughter” and “All-Capable Princess”: Discursive Legitimation in Chinese Media Coverage of Quan Hongchan and Gu Eileen

Incommensurability Between “Filial Daughter” and “All-Capable Princess”: Discursive Legitimation in Chinese Media Coverage of Quan Hongchan and Gu Eileen

Taming the Rebellious Child: The Adaptation of Nezha in Three Chinese Animations of the Socialist and Post-Socialist Eras

The transformation of images of Nezha and the changing cultural discourses in Chinese national style animated films from 1979 to 2019

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