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In Signifying the Local, Jin Liu examines contemporary cultural productions rendered in local languages and dialects (fangyan) in the fields of television, cinema, music, and literature in Mainland China. This ground-breaking interdisciplinary research provides an account of the ways in which local-language media have become a platform for the articulation of multivocal, complex, and marginal identities in post-socialist China. Viewed from the uniquely revealing perspective of local languages, the mediascape of China is no longer reducible to a unified, homogeneous, and coherent national culture, and thus renders any monolithic account of the Chinese language, Chineseness, and China impossible.
In Signifying the Local, Jin Liu examines contemporary cultural productions rendered in local languages and dialects (fangyan) in the fields of television, cinema, music, and literature in Mainland China. This ground-breaking interdisciplinary research provides an account of the ways in which loc...
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Jin Liu, Ph.D. (Cornell, 2008), is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has published in journals including positions (forthcoming), Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, and Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese. She co-edited Chinese Under Globalization: Emerging Trends in Language Use in China (2012)
Jin Liu, Ph.D. (Cornell, 2008), is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has published in journals including positions (forthcoming), Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, and Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese. She co-edited Chinese Under Globalization: Eme...
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