The Dissemination of Japanese Manga in China: The interplay of culture and social transformation in post reform period
(2005)Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
- Abstract
- The thesis is a combination of both research fieldwork in sociology and documentary study on the historical development of Japanese animation (and manga) within China in the past two decades. The author tries to reveal some of the social changes taken place in Chinese society through a prevailing foreign culture that once did not even exist. The thesis examines the background, the initiation and developing course of Japanese animation (and manga) while trying to find out how it was distributed and received in the country. By looking into the history of Japanese animation (and manga) in China, several points can be made to the subject. 1) The timing of Japanese animation (and manga) entering China is to the moment of political and social... (More)
- The thesis is a combination of both research fieldwork in sociology and documentary study on the historical development of Japanese animation (and manga) within China in the past two decades. The author tries to reveal some of the social changes taken place in Chinese society through a prevailing foreign culture that once did not even exist. The thesis examines the background, the initiation and developing course of Japanese animation (and manga) while trying to find out how it was distributed and received in the country. By looking into the history of Japanese animation (and manga) in China, several points can be made to the subject. 1) The timing of Japanese animation (and manga) entering China is to the moment of political and social significance. The distribution and consuming of a once considered children program has reflected almost every corner of the social transformation. 2) It has educated the young generation with a blurred idea of modernity at the first place while partly changed their worldview that driving them further away from the lost tradition. 3) As in reality and history, the popularity of Japanese animation comparing to the miserable WWII history has formed an illusive double-fold image of Japan in the heart of Chinese people. After all, the Japanese animation (and manga) per se and their dissemination which has historically developed into a transnational popular culture have been put into a larger background that involves China's social transformation as well as the worldwide trend, the globalization. Also, by looking at the up growth influence of a foreign culture, a different perspective for learning the thumbprint of our own times may be obtained. (Less)
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- author
- Wang, Yang
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2005
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Japanese Manga, Chinese youth, popular culture, social transformation, Social sciences, Samhällsvetenskaper
- language
- English
- id
- 1327615
- date added to LUP
- 2006-08-08 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2006-08-08 00:00:00
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abstract = {{The thesis is a combination of both research fieldwork in sociology and documentary study on the historical development of Japanese animation (and manga) within China in the past two decades. The author tries to reveal some of the social changes taken place in Chinese society through a prevailing foreign culture that once did not even exist. The thesis examines the background, the initiation and developing course of Japanese animation (and manga) while trying to find out how it was distributed and received in the country. By looking into the history of Japanese animation (and manga) in China, several points can be made to the subject. 1) The timing of Japanese animation (and manga) entering China is to the moment of political and social significance. The distribution and consuming of a once considered children program has reflected almost every corner of the social transformation. 2) It has educated the young generation with a blurred idea of modernity at the first place while partly changed their worldview that driving them further away from the lost tradition. 3) As in reality and history, the popularity of Japanese animation comparing to the miserable WWII history has formed an illusive double-fold image of Japan in the heart of Chinese people. After all, the Japanese animation (and manga) per se and their dissemination which has historically developed into a transnational popular culture have been put into a larger background that involves China's social transformation as well as the worldwide trend, the globalization. Also, by looking at the up growth influence of a foreign culture, a different perspective for learning the thumbprint of our own times may be obtained.}},
author = {{Wang, Yang}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{The Dissemination of Japanese Manga in China: The interplay of culture and social transformation in post reform period}},
year = {{2005}},
}