Shenshen Cai
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shenshen Cai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shenshen |
| FAMILY NAME | Cai |
| SIGNATURE | CAI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Muzi Mei - Internet celebrity and pioneer of 'body writing
Muzi Mei (b. 1978), is one of China’s best-known first generation Internet celebrities. Due to her bold and graphic confession of sexual encounters with different men, including commoners and celebrities alike, published on her blog back in 2003, Muzi Mei became both famous and notorious overnight. After graduating from university in 2001, she first worked as a magazine editor and then became a freelance writer. Since the release of her erotic di…
Xiangsheng and the Emergence of Guo Degang in Contemporary China
Talented Celebrity Rene Liu: Spokesperson of the Left-Over Women (Sheng Nu)
Female Celebrities in Contemporary Chinese Society
Contemporary Chinese Films and Celebrity Directors
Talented Celebrity Rene Liu: Spokesperson of the Left-Over Women (Sheng Nu)
In the highly developed culture and entertainment market of China, the idolization of celebrities fulfils an obvious social function in terms of constructing contemporary forms of identity and community. Serving as models of persona, celebrities exert enormous influence over their fan groups. This chapter examines the classic left-over women icon created by the Taiwanese actress, singer, writer and director, Rene Liu (Liu Ruoying) —an icon create…
Television Drama in Contemporary China: Political, social and cultural phenomena
Due to high audience numbers and the significant influence upon the opinions and values of viewers, the political leadership in China attributes great importance to the impact of television dramas. Many successful TV serials have served as useful conduits to disseminate official rhetoric and mainstream ideology, and they also offer a rich area of research by providing insight into the changing Chinese political, social and cultural context.\nThis…
Triad Dramas as Commentaries on Revolutionary Disharmony, Totalitarian Nostalgia, and a Yearning for Past Chivalry
In 2007, amateur on-line writer Kong Ergou’s triad novel series, Past Events of the Northeast: Twenty Years of the Triads, became a hit as a piece of network original literature. Five years later, the first volume of the book series was adapted into a network television drama of the same title. Focusing on the television drama, this paper examines three interrelated “dimensions” of the text. The first “dimension” relates to the correspondence bet…
State Propaganda in China's Entertainment Industry
Most current research on the evolution of China’s propaganda discourse only touches upon recent variations of official propaganda rhetoric grounded in popular media. Here, the research is extended by tapping into the most recently released popular cultural media narratives such as online documentaries, films, TV drama serials and education programs, all of which are enlisted and co-opted by the state for propaganda goals. This book maps out the c…
Contemporary Chinese TV Serials: Configuring Collective Memory of Socialist Nostalgia via the Cultural Revolution
Using China's Cultural Revolution as a representative historical event, this article examines how the collective memory and popular history revolving around it are manufactured and interpreted in televisual media narratives. The collective memory of the Cultural Revolution, as I will show, is constructed and not preserved, and the collective framework of memory, as the predominant thoughts and the governing ideological rhetoric of society, config…
Jia Zhangke and His A Touch of Sin
Scar Literature reconsidered: Yan Geling's novelsThe Criminal Lu YanshiandA Woman's Epic
This paper reconsiders the political dynamics, social disorder, and personal traumas endured during China's socialist revolutionary times by examining the Chinese American writer Yan Geling's (b. 1958) two Scar Literature novels, The Criminal Lu Yanshi (Lufan Yanshi, 2011) and A Woman's Epic (Yige nuren de shishi, 2006). Employing Hannah Arendt's theory on totalitarianism, this paper investigates how Mao's authoritarian rule transmutes Chinese so…
The Cultural Representation and Politics of the Chinese Moon Festival Gala: Nationalism, Nostalgia and Romance
A Cultural Reading of a Chinese White-Collar Workplace Bestseller and its Filmic Adaptation: Li Ke’s A Story of Lala’s Promotion and Go Lala Go
In 2007, Li Ke’s novel A Story of Lala’s Promotion (Du Lala Shengzhi Ji) became a bestseller among Chinese white-collar workers in foreign-owned (Western) companies and struck a chord with the Chinese middle class. The novel revolves around office politics, Western company culture and the white-collar lifestyle, the ‘shelved ladies’ phenomenon and middle-class aesthetics. To decipher the embedded cultural codes of this book, this study undertakes…
State Propaganda in China's Entertainment Industry
Most current research on the evolution of China’s propaganda discourse only touches upon recent variations of official propaganda rhetoric grounded in popular media. Here, the research is extended by tapping into the most recently released popular cultural media narratives such as online documentaries, films, TV drama serials and education programs, all of which are enlisted and co-opted by the state for propaganda goals. This book maps out the c…
Contemporary Chinese TV Serials: Configuring Collective Memory of Socialist Nostalgia via the Cultural Revolution
Using China's Cultural Revolution as a representative historical event, this article examines how the collective memory and popular history revolving around it are manufactured and interpreted in televisual media narratives. The collective memory of the Cultural Revolution, as I will show, is constructed and not preserved, and the collective framework of memory, as the predominant thoughts and the governing ideological rhetoric of society, config…
Muzi Mei - Internet celebrity and pioneer of 'body writing
Muzi Mei (b. 1978), is one of China’s best-known first generation Internet celebrities. Due to her bold and graphic confession of sexual encounters with different men, including commoners and celebrities alike, published on her blog back in 2003, Muzi Mei became both famous and notorious overnight. After graduating from university in 2001, she first worked as a magazine editor and then became a freelance writer. Since the release of her erotic di…
The Cultural Representation and Politics of the Chinese Moon Festival Gala: Nationalism, Nostalgia and Romance
A Cultural Reading of a Chinese White-Collar Workplace Bestseller and its Filmic Adaptation: Li Ke’s A Story of Lala’s Promotion and Go Lala Go
In 2007, Li Ke’s novel A Story of Lala’s Promotion (Du Lala Shengzhi Ji) became a bestseller among Chinese white-collar workers in foreign-owned (Western) companies and struck a chord with the Chinese middle class. The novel revolves around office politics, Western company culture and the white-collar lifestyle, the ‘shelved ladies’ phenomenon and middle-class aesthetics. To decipher the embedded cultural codes of this book, this study undertakes…
The Cultural Representation and Politics of the Chinese Moon Festival Gala: Nationalism, Nostalgia and Romance
A Cultural Reading of a Chinese White-Collar Workplace Bestseller and its Filmic Adaptation: Li Ke’s A Story of Lala’s Promotion and Go Lala Go
In 2007, Li Ke’s novel A Story of Lala’s Promotion (Du Lala Shengzhi Ji) became a bestseller among Chinese white-collar workers in foreign-owned (Western) companies and struck a chord with the Chinese middle class. The novel revolves around office politics, Western company culture and the white-collar lifestyle, the ‘shelved ladies’ phenomenon and middle-class aesthetics. To decipher the embedded cultural codes of this book, this study undertakes…
Jia Zhangke and His A Touch of Sin
Scar Literature reconsidered: Yan Geling's novelsThe Criminal Lu YanshiandA Woman's Epic
This paper reconsiders the political dynamics, social disorder, and personal traumas endured during China's socialist revolutionary times by examining the Chinese American writer Yan Geling's (b. 1958) two Scar Literature novels, The Criminal Lu Yanshi (Lufan Yanshi, 2011) and A Woman's Epic (Yige nuren de shishi, 2006). Employing Hannah Arendt's theory on totalitarianism, this paper investigates how Mao's authoritarian rule transmutes Chinese so…
Television Drama in Contemporary China: Political, social and cultural phenomena
Due to high audience numbers and the significant influence upon the opinions and values of viewers, the political leadership in China attributes great importance to the impact of television dramas. Many successful TV serials have served as useful conduits to disseminate official rhetoric and mainstream ideology, and they also offer a rich area of research by providing insight into the changing Chinese political, social and cultural context.\nThis…
Triad Dramas as Commentaries on Revolutionary Disharmony, Totalitarian Nostalgia, and a Yearning for Past Chivalry
In 2007, amateur on-line writer Kong Ergou’s triad novel series, Past Events of the Northeast: Twenty Years of the Triads, became a hit as a piece of network original literature. Five years later, the first volume of the book series was adapted into a network television drama of the same title. Focusing on the television drama, this paper examines three interrelated “dimensions” of the text. The first “dimension” relates to the correspondence bet…
State Propaganda in China's Entertainment Industry
Most current research on the evolution of China’s propaganda discourse only touches upon recent variations of official propaganda rhetoric grounded in popular media. Here, the research is extended by tapping into the most recently released popular cultural media narratives such as online documentaries, films, TV drama serials and education programs, all of which are enlisted and co-opted by the state for propaganda goals. This book maps out the c…
Contemporary Chinese TV Serials: Configuring Collective Memory of Socialist Nostalgia via the Cultural Revolution
Using China's Cultural Revolution as a representative historical event, this article examines how the collective memory and popular history revolving around it are manufactured and interpreted in televisual media narratives. The collective memory of the Cultural Revolution, as I will show, is constructed and not preserved, and the collective framework of memory, as the predominant thoughts and the governing ideological rhetoric of society, config…
Contemporary Chinese Films and Celebrity Directors
Talented Celebrity Rene Liu: Spokesperson of the Left-Over Women (Sheng Nu)
In the highly developed culture and entertainment market of China, the idolization of celebrities fulfils an obvious social function in terms of constructing contemporary forms of identity and community. Serving as models of persona, celebrities exert enormous influence over their fan groups. This chapter examines the classic left-over women icon created by the Taiwanese actress, singer, writer and director, Rene Liu (Liu Ruoying) —an icon create…
Talented Celebrity Rene Liu: Spokesperson of the Left-Over Women (Sheng Nu)
Female Celebrities in Contemporary Chinese Society
Xiangsheng and the Emergence of Guo Degang in Contemporary China
Muzi Mei - Internet celebrity and pioneer of 'body writing
Muzi Mei (b. 1978), is one of China’s best-known first generation Internet celebrities. Due to her bold and graphic confession of sexual encounters with different men, including commoners and celebrities alike, published on her blog back in 2003, Muzi Mei became both famous and notorious overnight. After graduating from university in 2001, she first worked as a magazine editor and then became a freelance writer. Since the release of her erotic di…
Art (10 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · China (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · History (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)