Digital China : : Creativity and Community in the Sinocybersphere.

• Author: Imbach, Jessica.
• TeilnehmendeR: Jessica Imbach
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (313 pages)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Note on Romanisation --; List of Figures --; Introduction --; 1 Re-inventing Tianxia --; 2 An Online World of Their Own --; 3 Hong Kong’s Digital Literary Field --; 4 Virtual Conciliation --; 5 Poetry as Meme --; 6 Cooking Authenticity --; 7 Affective Labour on Kuaishou --; 8 Network Fantasies --; 9 Cyborg Resistance --; 10 Virtual Art in Times of Crisis --; 11 Viral Text --; Bibliography --; List of Contributors --; Index
• ISBN: 9048555213
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

Over the past decade, digital technologies have profoundly reshaped the Chinese cultural landscape. With a focus on the creative agency of new media and online communities, this volume examines this development through the notion of the Sinocybersphere - the networked spaces across the globe that not only operate on the Chinese script, but also imaginatively negotiate the meanings of Chinese culture in the digital age. Instead of asking what makes the internet or new media “Chinese,” the chapters situate contemporary entanglements of cultural and digital practices within specific historical, social, and discursive contexts. Covering topics as diverse as live-streaming, AI poetry, online literature, poetry memes, cyberpunk fiction, virtual art exhibitions, cooking videos, censorship, and viral translations, the collection as a whole not only engages with a wide range of Chinese new media phenomena, but also demonstrates their relevance to our understanding of contemporary digital culture.