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Pereira, Tânia Sofia Gonçalves. "Influência da cultura chinesa na instalação de empresas no mercado chinês." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/10526.
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Mestrado em MarketingNuma época em que a globalização avança a largos passos e vários investigadores consideram que as práticas de gestão e produtos tendem para uma uniformização nos mais diversos países, as culturas nacionais continuam a colocar um travão a este fenómeno. Cada cultura contínua a marcar fortemente a sua identidade, causando um dos possíveis principais problemas de gestão a uma organização que pretenda iniciar um processo de expansão internacional. O investimento de empresas portuguesas na China tem sofrido um aumento substancial nos últimos anos. Desta forma é relevante estudar se a cultura tem sido um entrave à instalação destas empresas, uma vez que estamos perante duas culturas tão distintas. Para tal, recorreu-se a um estudo de caso sobre uma joint-venture entre uma empresa portuguesa e uma chinesa. Foi possível detetar que na fase de instalação o choque cultural não é forçosamente negativo e sugerido que na gestão corrente o impacto seja talvez maior.
At a time when globalization is increasingly and more researchers consider that products and management practices tend to uniformity in several countries, national cultures still put a stop to this phenomenon. Each continuous culture strongly marks its identity, causing one of the possible significant management problems for an organization wishing to start a process of international expansion. The investment of Portuguese companies in China has been increasing a lot in the past few years. In this way is relevant to study if the culture has been an obstacle to the instalation of these companies, since we are dealing with two cultures so different. It was possible to detect that during the installation fase, the culture shock is not negative and is suggested that perhaps the impact on current management may be bigger.
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Fang, Tony. "Chinese culture and Chinese business negotiating style /." Linköping : Univ, 1999. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp99/man39s.htm.
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Song, Xiaofan. "Linger: Chinese Culture Center." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/85002.
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How to better integrate urban texture, architecture, and culture organically, and use the architecture as a carrier to transmit more humanistic information?
In today's society, people have a variety of ways to explore the culture and understand the culture. However, the most direct experience is a personal experience. As the most important carrier of human activities, architecture cannot be overlooked. From the direct sensory experience and indirect behavioral patterns, architecture is involved in human activities and ways of thinking all the time. Therefore, the combination of culture and architecture organically will give people a better way and angle to understand the culture.
The relationship between local culture and local architecture is inextricably linked. However, how to integrate foreign culture into local architecture will be a very difficult problem. Directly transplanting buildings and cultural elements from a foreign culture to a local city will make the building incompatible with the original urban texture. It is not easy for local residents to accept this foreign culture from the aesthetic perspective or psychological perspective. In my thesis, I hope to design a cultural center that can match the texture of the local city and reflect the foreign culture through my thinking about the architecture and the understanding of the foreign culture: design a Chinese cultural center in Chinatown, Washington DC, to find out a reasonable way for cultural communication.Master of Architecture
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Ren, Jun. "Space + culture + identity : Chinese cultural center in Sea Point." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18708.
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This thesis is inspired by the experience of living in two places that both have distinctive cultures. Architecture being a form of culture motivated me to enter the school of architecture. After 6 years of study, this paper attempts to answer my initial concerns on architecture and culture. For me it is very important to understand what the relationship between architecture and culture and how they influence each other. How does one present culture and tradition in the design of architecture? How can architecture represent cultural identity in a foreign context, in a more respectful way? Can architecture become the platform to connect people with distinct cultural backgrounds? Last but not least, in the contemporary city of Cape Town, what is the multi-cultural intervention that one can create for immigrants, in this case, the Chinese community in South Africa? These are the essential questions that I want to discuss and investigate in my thesis. There are three sections in this paper. The first is an introduction to Chinese culture and its national identity, looking at traditional Chinese architecture and philosophies behind their making. The courtyard house will be studied as an example. Furthermore, contemporary Chinese architecture that looks at new approaches to representing the modern Chinese identity will be discussed. The second part explores spatial and urban manifestation in Chinese cities - how urban space affects one's cultural behavior. I will look at typical conditions of Chinatown and its architectural characteristic in the foreign context, including the new Chinatown in Johannesburg. In the last chapter, the paper will bring forward my thoughts through design development on site selection, programme and concept. I explored the subject of architecture and identity of nation and the way that cultural identity can be represented through architecture. I questioned how this can be translated into architecture when making its national image into a foreign country.
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Lee, Judy M. Y. "Culture, identity, and education : an exploration of cultural influences on academic achievement." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22404.
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Cultural influences on educational achievement were explored in this study of Chinese university students. Academic choices, goals, and performance in relation to family background, ethnic identity, and cultural socialization were ascertained through semi-structure interviews and questionnaires. The sample of thirty-two McGill University students represented a cross section of majors, and were selected into groups based on length of residency in Canada. Data from university records, which showed the evolution of Chinese enrollment and achievement patterns over the last three decades, provided the historical context for the interviews. Major themes regarding family and ethnic identity emerged which suggest that educational ambitions may be socioeconomically motivated, and rooted in an ethnic minority's aspiration for upward mobility. However, the key facilitator of educational success is a strong home background and family system, which was able to promote and enforce a single-minded pursuit of education.
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Tang, Kai. "Musical Culture of Chinese Floaters." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13094351.
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"Floaters" are a large population of internal migrants in China. Led by a series of urban-based economic policies and the consequent income gap between rural and urban regions, these former peasants left their hometowns, floating temporarily and illegally in the cities for economic opportunities. Without legal immigration status, they are marginalized by local urbanites and are considered by the government as disobedient citizens with the potential to jeopardize the socialist society.
This dissertation, drawing on two years' ethnographic and archival research in China, examines the basic characteristics of floaters' musical world and focuses on three representative musical components. The first is a repertory called Sour Songs, which originates from floaters' rural hometowns and serves as an outlet for release of nostalgia and spiritual pain. The second, Red Songs, is a genre invented by the communist government that has become an effective propaganda tool and is characterized as "a powerful bolt of the revolutionary machine" in the floaters' world. Finally, Rock 'n' Roll, the only musical form in China that signifies both urbanity and revolt, is used by floaters to display their special identity and to express themselves when they are silenced in the broader society. This dissertation reveals hidden meanings in floaters' music-making and suggests that the study of this overlooked musical community could provide new perspectives on Chinese music at large.Music
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Zhu, Bo. "Chinese Cultural Values And Chinese Language Pedagogy." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1228349636.
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Wang, Feng. "Le supply chain management et la culture : la mise en oeuvre du supply chain management dans le contexte culturel chinois." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010AIX24003/document.
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Partant d'un triple constat, à savoir l'importance de la démarche de "Supply Chain Management" (SCM) dans le management, la nécessaire prise en compte de la culture dans la mise en œuvre de cette démarche de gestion et une première évocation de la cohérence entre la culture chinoise et le SCM, l'objectif de notre recherche est d'analyser la mise en œuvre du SCM dans le contexte culturel chinois.La première partie de cette recherche a pour objectif tout d'abord d'effectuer une revue de littérature permettant de définir des conditions comportementales pour la mise en œuvre du SCM, d'étudier le concept de culture et les éléments culturels chinois puis, d'émettre des propositions de recherche ainsi que de construire un modèle conceptuel.La deuxième partie vise à développer la méthodologie en Sciences de gestion et à justifier notre choix à propos des méthodes de recherche mobilisées dans le travail empirique. Pour cela, nous avons mis en place un travail de terrain par une analyse qualitative de données recueillies lors d'entretiens semi-directifs et basée sur une observation de longue durée.Au travers de ces analyses, il en résulte que les éléments culturels chinois sont positivement corrélés aux conditions de la mise en œuvre de la démarche de SCMBased on a triple observation, namely the importance of Supply Chain Management approach in the management, the necessary taking into account of the culture for the implementation of this approach and a first impression of the accordance between the Chinese culture and the SCM, our research aims to analyze the SCM implementation in the Chinese cultural context.The first part of this resarch is designed for a litterature review which allows defining behavioral conditions for SCM implementation, analyzing the concept of culture as well as Chinese cultural elements, and then putting forward theoretical propositions and constructing a conceptual model.The second part intends developping the methodology of Management Science and explaining our choices of research methods mobilized in empirical analysis. After that, we realize the fieldwork through a qualitative analysis of dates collected from semi-directive interviews and a long period observation.Based on these analyses, we conclude that Chinese cultural elements positively correlate with conditions for SCM and the Chinese culture is a favorable context for SCM implementation
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Akehurst, Jessica Marie. "Culture, cultural discontinuity and the need for change : understanding Canadian and Chinese cultures of learning." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/40274.
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The purpose of this thesis is to examine sources of potential cultural discontinuity between Chinese students and Canadian teachers at an International school in China. Cultural discontinuity is a school-based process whereby culturally-based learning preferences and practices of students are discontinued at school (Ogbu, 1995). Since curriculum and classroom practices at International Schools are rooted in mainstream Western cultural values and worldviews, this dominant ideology may result in the discontinuance of cultural, value-based learning behaviours by Chinese students. This thesis delineates some of the issues that illustrate the incongruence between primary culture (home-based values) and secondary culture (school-based cultural values) and the implications for teaching and learning in British Columbian Offshore Schools. Conceptions of teaching and learning, the value and use of questioning, the issues of silence and plagiarism, and the role of the teacher and students are examined.
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Zhang, Xiao Yang. "Shakespeare and traditional Chinese drama : Shakespeare in Chinese culture; a comparative study in cultural materialism." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358083.
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Abercrombie, John D. "Religion as a Chinese Cultural Component: Culture in the Chinese Taoist Association and Confucius Institute." TopSCHOLAR®, 2016. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1579.
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This thesis examines the role of the cultural discourse on the indigenous religious traditions of China and their place within an officially sanctioned construction of Chinese culture. It starts by examining the concept of culture as it developed in the modern era, its place within the construction of national identities, and the marginalizing effects this has on certain members of national populations. Next it turns to the development of the cultural discourse within China from the mid-1800s to the Cultural Revolution, highlighting the social and legal transformations as they restricted and reframed the practice and articulation of religious traditions in mainland China. Following these early articulations of a cultural discourse in China and the subjugation of religious traditions to secular standards of legitimation, it examines the official presentations and governmentally sanctioned forms of the Daoist tradition in post-Mao China during a “cultural revival,” through an analysis of official publications and online presentations. Finally, it examines the way teachers and administrators package Chinese culture for a foreign audience through the Confucius Institute.
This thesis argues that, despite greater freedom to explore indigenous traditions previously written off as “superstitious” within the cultural revival of contemporary China, the official cultural discourse in China continues to operate within the parameters of a modern cultural identity that marginalizes ritualistic forms of religion, allowing these religious forms to survive in an official space only as exotic images, sanitized and secularized activities, or ethical ideals.
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Tu, Hengsong, and Xin Yuan. "Chinese culture Chinese corporation culture and innovation : how does a corporation implement innovation properly." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för Industriell utveckling, IT och Samhällsbyggnad, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-7466.
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Culture has covered several areas which related to human beings’ life, it was manifested in process of doing, value judge, communication manners, education issues, historical events, economic situation and so on in communities. So, the culture would impact the operation ways of a corporation. Through the prevalent theory of Hofstede’s culture division, we understood that Chinese culture has its characteristics which could be portrayed as long power distance, collectivism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation. The Chinese enterprise has long been the epitome of the massive collective, where employees usually treated their organization as their family. Additionally, these large organizations and government related enterprises had a multitude of standardized procedures and regulations, numerous managerial levels, and promotions based on knowledge of and obedience to these procedures and policies, exemplifying the hierarchy culture (A.Ralson, Jane, H. Terpstra, Wang, C.Egri, 2006). And this study, we will review some literatures at first sector and get comprehensive insight of Chinese corporate culture, and discuss the relationship between corporate culture and innovation capability through interview with some corporations’ leaders in second sector. Through this work, we are trying to provide some successful experiences to Chinese corporations.文化反映在人类生活中的很多方面，诸如做事情方式，沟通的礼节，教育，历史事件，经济状况等等方面。在很大方面，一个国家的文化会影响到企业的经营方式。通过当前比较流行的霍夫特德的文化区分理论，我们了解到中国的文化特点体现为比较长的权利距离，集体主义倾向，更男性化，强调风险规避以及考虑长期目标。因此，中国的企业也长期处在中国文化的影响中，表现起来就是中国的企业更强调集体文化，以及把企业当作家的思想。企业中存在许多的规章制度以及等级观念，员工的晋升与个人的成就和服从相关联。通过这篇文章，我们在一系列文献整理的基础上，更好的了解中国文化和中国企业文化，并进而讨论文化与创新之间的联系。并且最后我们将举出一些取得成功的中国本土企业的例子，并探讨他们成功的经验。
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Zhiyan, Wu. "The co-creation and circulation of brands and cultures : historical Chinese culture, global fashion systems, and the development of Chinese global brands." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3165.
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This dissertation is a study of the possibilities and processes of constructing strong Chinese brands in the global marketplace. It investigates conceptual and strategic relationships between brands and cultures, focusing specifically on the issue of the unprivileged position of Chinese brands vis-à-vis that of other famous global counterparts. Accordingly, it deploys three illustrative cases from the Chinese context – Jay Chou (a successful Chinese music artist), the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, and Shanghai Tang (a global Chinese fashion brand). In so doing, it moves away from the general trend to study the managerial aspects of Western brand building in Chinese contexts, and instead examines how Chinese brands express cultural aspects of their own well-known brand development models in the global marketplace. In short, this study uses a Chinese vantage to examine the emergence of cultural branding (using historical culture and global fashion systems to develop global brands), and its capacity to function as a useful complement to existing models of brand globalisation and global brand culture. The function of the three cases is illustrative and analytic. Collectively, they serve as a lens through which to study Chinese brand development in the global marketplace and examine global brand culture. Each case was fleshed out through various multi-sited ethnographic studies, which consisted of interviewing and observing consumers and managerial workers, the results of which shed light on several important but under-studied aspects of global brand culture. These include Chinese cultural branding in the global context, the cultural approach to branding among various brand actors, and relationships between brands and cultures across branding cultures. Drawing on these examinations, this study not only demonstrates ways in which brands and cultures circulate and construct each other in global brand culture. It also uses these insights to argue for the development of Chinese culture or Chinese-ness into a global brand resource by Chinese brand builders.
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Yu, Wang. "Analysis of cultural differences and management : a case study of a chinese company in Portugal." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/20936.
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Mestrado em Ciências EmpresariaisÀ medida que a escala e o âmbito das empresas multinacionais continuam a expandir-se, cada vez mais empresas chinesas entram no mercado português. Mas, ao mesmo tempo, as diferenças culturais entre países, regiões e nacionalidades criaram conflitos culturais, o que significa que um desafio central para as empresas e gestores empresariais. Uma vez que cultura e economia são interdependentes e inseparáveis, é necessário prestar mais atenção às diferenças culturais, e estratégias adequadas de gestão de conflitos culturais poderiam resolver as possíveis perdas causadas pelas diferenças culturais. Portanto, esta dissertação utiliza o caso de uma empresa chinesa de aquisição - Bison Bank em Portugal, utiliza a metodologia de investigação qualitativa para analisar o impacto da cultura nacional do país anfitrião na sua cultura organizacional e as implicações desta influência na gestão transcultural.
As the scale and scope of multinational corporations continue to expand, more and more Chinese companies enter the Portuguese market. But at the same time, cultural differences between countries, regions and nationalities have created cultural conflicts, which means that a central challenge for companies and business managers. Since culture and economy are interdependent and inseparable, it is necessary to pay more attention to cultural differences, and proper management strategies of cultural conflicts could solve the possible losses caused by cultural differences. Therefore, this dissertation uses the case of a Chinese acquisition company - Bison Bank in Portugal, uses the qualitative research methodology to analyze the impact of the host country's national culture on its organizational culture and the implications of this influence on cross-cultural management.
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Griffiths, Kate. "Culture of aid : Chinese aid to Cambodia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18188.
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Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia. The United Nations Human Development Index ranks Cambodia as 137 out of 182 countries in terms of quality of life. Cambodia is also an aid dependent country, with nearly half its annual budget coming from aid. Since the Paris Peace Accords in 1991 and subsequent United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) period, OECD-DAC (Development Assistance Committee) (or 'traditional') donors have entered Cambodia in large numbers. These traditional donors allocate aid according to the OECDDAC consensus. This consensus is based around international agreements such as the Millennium Development Goals, The Pahs Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Monterrey Consensus o f the International Conference on Financing fo r Development. The traditional donors have, since the early 1990s, created and dominated the aid 'culture' in Cambodia. Recently, however, another donor has come to the fore in Cambodia, and that is China. China has strong historical, social and economic links with Cambodia that go back to ancient times. China has been disbursing aid to Cambodia since the 1950s. However, it has only been since 2006 that China has come to the fore as an aid donor, due in part to the large amount of aid it is currently pledging to Cambodia but also to the growing role China is playing on the wider global stage. China is now one of the largest donors to (as well as investors in) Cambodia. China, however, is often considered a 'rogue' donor by the traditional donors both at the global scale and within Cambodia, as China does not conform with DAC policy on aid and development. This leads to certain representations of China that do not always accord with the 'realities' of China's aid program. This thesis explores aid cultures in Cambodia, in particular the encounter between Chinese aid and western aid. Theoretically this thesis situates itself at the intersection between (post)development geography and cultural geography, drawing on ideas such as representation and encounter to understand how Chinese and western aid come together in the context of Cambodia. By doing so, this thesis fills a gap in the existing literature by looking at aid as a culture, and exploring China's aid from a [post]development/cultural geography viewpoint, rather than an economic or international relations stance. Arising from this theoretical stance come three primary research questions: How do those with different cultural sets come together in certain contexts, namely aid; what cultural encounters do we see in this mix between traditional donors and new donors; how do discourses around 'the other' play into aid dialogues in Cambodia? This thesis investigates these research questions through qualitative methods, including interviews, discourse analysis and participant observation. Analysis is undertaken of western aid to Cambodia, with a focus on the history and statistics of aid, aid coordination, development policy and critiques of traditional aid in order to highlight the existing aid culture in Cambodia. An analysis is then undertaken of China's aid to Cambodia, looking at the aid figures and aid structure before investigating representations of China's aid and looking at an indicative case study of one Chinese aid project in Cambodia. Finally the encounter between western aid and Chinese aid is analysed with particular reference to three types of western aid actors in Cambodia and how they encounter and represent China and its aid program. Through the above investigation, three main findings are arrived at: a) that a particularly western aid culture has been created in Cambodia, one which can be seen as a 'site of knowledge' for western aid; b] that Chinese aid is deliberately constructed and represented in certain ways by the West for its own purposes much as Said (1995] outlined in his work Orientalism regarding the relationship between the West and 'the other'; and c) whilst global aid discourses influence the encounter between China and the West in Cambodia, Cambodia itself is not a passive player in this encounter, using it for its own advantage by playing off China and the western donors against one another.
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Yong, Geoffrey F. K. "Chinese Christian men from culture to godliness /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Zheng, Yawen. "Behavioral Culture in the Chinese Language Classroom." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313666561.
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Wong, Heong Fei. "Keeping native culture alive while living between cultures : Burmese-Chinese migrants in Macau." Thesis, University of Macau, 2007. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1874209.
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Wang, Yi. "From revolutionary culture to popular culture: Chinese literature and television 1987-1991." Thesis, Wang, Yi (1996) From revolutionary culture to popular culture: Chinese literature and television 1987-1991. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1996. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/50714/.
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For over forty years since 1949, the People's Republic of China adapted to a unified and homogeneous "revolutionary cultural" identity that was deeply inscribed with communism and socialist ideals, which was located in a fixed relationship to the culture of the past and the culture of the West. The emergence of an elite culture in the 1980s and then a popular culture in the 1990s were significant historical breakthroughs. It not only highlighted the changes in the co-existence of different cultural domains but also, more significantly, provided sites for new discourses of elite culture and popular culture.
This study argues that China's cultural identity has become an arena of multiple identities rather than a singular subjectivity. In terms of contemporary cultural value and authority, and their relation to social power, there are at least three distinct cultural spheres representing different cultural forces in the national community: elite culture, popular culture and official culture. This new division in the contemporary cultural field not only deconstructs the powerful single, unified "revolutionary Chinese culture", but also reflects and generates conflicts of value and belief as between the Chinese authorities, intellectuals and ordinary people; more than that, it urges a renegotiation of contemporary Chinese cultural (and national) identity and China's official cultural policy.
Therefore, whether the blend of the three cultures - elite culture, popular culture and official culture - can co-exist harmoniously in future with an encroaching "Western" and "modern" culture is a question with no answer yet. It is possible that if the open policy and reforms of the past decade which have made possible such a variety of China's cultural life continue, China, facing the age of popular culture in the 21st century, will gradually move towards the global order of communication, towards cultural heterogeneity, if not fragmentation.
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Li, Chuang (Austin). "China's skateboarding youth culture as an emerging cultural industry." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2018. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/34372.
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This thesis focuses on the skateboarding industry in China as both a youth subculture and a cultural industry. I am investigating the transition between the two and examining how the emerging skateboarding industry operates through detailed analysis of the feelings, motivations and meanings attributed to it by its participants and the emerging strata of cultural workers. In order to achieve this research objective, this thesis has positioned the analysis in a triangle of forces between the development of Chinese skateboarding culture, the emerging skateboarding cultural industry and government interventions. This ethnographic study takes into account distinctive characters in the development of Chinese skateboarding communities that signify continuities inside contemporary Chinese youth cultures. I argue that such continuity is still embedded in the organisation of the Chinese skateboarding industry as a cultural industry, in both subcultural and corporate entrepreneurial practices. Moreover, this thesis contributes to ongoing discussions in the field of not only cultural studies but also of the political economic analysis of cultural/creative industries by examining the dynamic incorporations at play between the commercial and governmental forces at the centre of current debate around the inclusion of skateboarding in the Olympic Games, and the consequences of the sportisation of skateboarding in mainstream economic structures. Last but not least, this research captures the working conditions of the cultural labourers who are at the forefront of shaping and reshaping the Chinese skateboarding industry.
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Zhang, Ye. "The marsh and the bush : outlaw hero traditions of China and the West." Thesis, Curtin University, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2392.
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This thesis makes a comparative study of cultural differences and similarities between Chinese and Western outlaw heroes. It examines this cultural phenomenon from eight angles: the outlaw hero as constructed by history, literature and folklore; outlaws constructed as archetypal heroes; social and cultural contexts; outlaw heroes and revolution; a comparative case study of outlaws in Northeast China and Australia; underground cultural products (the "lore" and 'law"); ballads and proverbs reflecting values of outlaw heroism; and the fate of outlaws and the outlaw hero.Historical and folkloric explanatory frameworks are applied to outlaw hero traditions. Archetypal outlaw heroes and their successors, praised or criticised, are all constructed through a long process which combines reality recreated and fiction made real. Characteristics of archetypal outlaw heroes are inherited by later outlaws in China and the West. Though there are common codes and values of outlaw heroes in China and the West, different attributes are manifested in their attitudes towards brotherhood, organisation and women, and also in bandit sources and bandit categories.Western outlaw heroes are seldom involved in revolution, but their Chinese counterparts are connected with the Taiping revolutionary movement, the republican revolution and the Communist revolution. Some Communists are no more than outlaw heroes in the eyes of the poor and bandits in the eyes of the Kuomintang However, the alliance between outlaw heroes and revolutionaries is a fragile one.Northeast China and Australia have some parallels in their outlaw hero traditions. Convicts and immigrants play an important part in frontier banditry. The environment of both provides fertile soil for banditry and immigration. Among modem outlaws in Northeast China are chivalrous bandits and bandits who heroically fight against foreign Invaders. Bandit culture is valuable heritage in China. Bandits' ceremonies, argot, internal regulations, worship and superstition, and routine and recreational activities are all important facets of Chinese outlaw culture.Outlaw heroes never bend their bodies under pressure; they rebel rather than wait for death; and they never rob the locals. This is all reflected in bandit ballads, proverbs and other lore discussed in the thesis. Death is what most outlaws have to face, and how to fade it is a significant element in the construction of the outlaw hero. The arguments of this thesis are based on folkloric, historic and literary sources, many of which are here translated into English for the first time.
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Mendizza, Marina, Ai Linh Nguyen, and Jonny Rosengren. "Exploring Direct Sale - In Relation to Chinese Culture." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, Department of Business Administration, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-3161.
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The dissertation aims to identify and investigate factors involved in direct sale in relation to Chinese culture. Direct sale is one form of direct marketing, which can include door-to-door, office-to-office, home party selling, etc. For a salesperson to be able to do business with people from various cultures, he/she needs to understand the differences in their values and in their consumer needs. Cultural values have implications for marketing communication and direct selling activities.
After a literature review of the two areas, direct sale and Chinese culture a theoretical model was developed. This model will be helpful for companies when entering the Chinese market through direct sale. The model consists of twelve factors involved in direct sale; communication, commitment, trust, collective, friendship, empathy, respect, conflict avoidance, loyalty, functionality, behaviour, and home party. The aim is to show how important each of the factors is for direct selling in China. From the interpretations of the research review we came to the conclusion that all factors are considered to be of importance in relation to Chinese culture.
In order to test the model we conducted a survey. Our population consisted of Chinese exchange students at Kristianstad University in Sweden. The result of the survey became the base of a new model. The new model showed that all factors were of importance but with different degrees. In order to see if our model might be useful in real life we chose to include a case study of Oriflame. All the factors in our model supported Oriflame’s strategy.
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Wang, Mufan. "The Chinese school enterprise, an organizational culture study." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0005/NQ41527.pdf.
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Tang, Lihong. "Nonsensical speech : speech acts in postsocialist Chinese culture /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6662.
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劉文山 and Man-shan Simon Lau. "Learning on the conceptions of a Chinese culture." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31961733.
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Fan, Gaojie. "Individual Differences in Western and Chinese Culture Groups." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1461755665.
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An, Jing. "American Teachers' Perspectives on Chinese American Students' Culture." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1398875282.
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Zhao, Rui. "Les renaissances et les innovations de la culture traditionnelle chinoise dans la musique contemporaine chinoise depuis les années 1980." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040168.
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Depuis les années 1980, la société chinoise a eu un grand changement qui a ouvert la porte au monde. La musique contemporaine chinoise a aussi un grand développement pendant cette période. Dans ce cas-là, qu’elle est la spécificité de cette musique ? Nous regardons le chemin du développement de la musique contemporaine chinoise dès le début du XXème siècle, ce développement a eu une caractéristique commune (le nationalisme) dans les différents périodes. En même temps, le développement de la musique chinoise a eu ainsi ses propres spécificités périodiques. Dès les années 1980, la musique contemporaine chinoise a prolongé ceux des quatre premières générations qui a combiné la caractéristique communes (le nationalisme) et la spécificité personnelle. Ces musiciens de la cinquième génération ont cherché souvent les matériaux musicaux sur la culture traditionnelle chinoise, parfois ils ont été inspirés de cette culture, puis composés de nombreux œuvres musicales. Ces musiques ont diffusé au monde à nos jours. Ce mouvement a introduit un résultat ce que la culture traditionnelle chinoise a eu une renaissance dans la musique contemporaine chinoise. Dans cette thèse, nous développerons cette vision par les différents domaines comme le fait historique, la technique de la composition et l’esthétique musicalesFrom 1980s, CHINA, where great changes have taken placed, has reopened its door to the outside. The Chinese contemporary music has also experienced a rapid development, which leads to the question that how the feature of its development presents.Looking back to the way of Chinese modern music from early 20th century, a common trait can be found in different stages, which can be named as ‘national character’. Meanwhile it extends to various features to reflect the periods.From 1980s, Chinese modern music not only inherits the common character of the previous generations, but also reveals its own distinction. In order to realize all these features, the Chinese musicians of the 5th generation, deriving inspirations and contents from traditional culture of CHINA accompanied by their unique techniques, have created a great amount of musical products. With the worldwide spread of these products, Chinese traditional culture has come to be known gradually. All these lead directly to the renaissance of Chinese traditional culture to a certain extent. In this dissertation, points will be stated from aspects of history, composition technique and aesthetics, etc
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Meng, Nan. "Chinese Culture themes and Cultural Development: from a Family Pedagogy to a Performance-based Pedagogy of a Foreign Language and Culture." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345312833.
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Hu, Chen, and Hongming Yang. "IKEA's brand culture in today's Chinese market: Focus on Shanghai." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för ekonomi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-12292.
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Title: IKEA's brand culture in today's Chinese market: Focus on Shanghai Level: Final assignment for Master of Business Administration Author: Hongming Yang, Chen Hu Supervisor: Maria Fregidou-Malama Date: 2012-June Aim: The aim of this study is to analyze the collected information to study the IKEA's brand culture and consumer psychology and behavior in Shanghai market nowadays. By using Hofstede´s cultural dimensions to assess the IKEA's brand culture in Shanghai we give suggestions to IKEA about how to adapt to the regional market. Method: Use of primary data which were collected through interviews, with a questionnaire provided to managers. Secondary data in form of articles, books and published literature has been collected through databases such as DIVA, Emerald and the library at Gävle University. We use qualitative analysis to study the issue. Result & Conclusions: IKEA's brand culture to provide good quality products to improve people's life in Shanghai in cheap price is not so clearly understood. IKEA has to adjust its marketing strategy, such as improving the quality of its products, or reducing the price, to remove the Shanghai consumers' confusion and misunderstanding of IKEA, in order to suit the Shanghai regional culture. Contribution of the thesis: We suggest that multinational enterprises should pay attention on the regional culture of the market they want to enter in. It is important that the enterprises know the Shanghai consumers' culture requirements, which can lead enterprises to promote their brand culture.
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Dong, Wei. "Chinese Cultural Center." VCU Scholars Compass, 1988. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/677.
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During this period of high technology, designers are eager to create environments that have strong emotional appeal to people's physiology and psychology. Our exploration of the natural living space has become all the more an elusive search as modern technology advances. Interior design, in its concern for environmental engineering, endeavors to exploit the spiritual aspect of human resources. Through this message, people are inspired to higher planes of existence.A. PROJECT To design a Chinese Cultural center. B. PURPOSE 1. To introduce the traditional and contemporary Chinese culture to western people. 2. To illustrate and describe the philosophies of Chinese life and thinking to visitors of the center. 3. To create a new space and form combining oriental and western design. 4. To incorporate the use of contemporary materials, structure and technology. 5. To integrate the interior and exterior environment, and the building into a total design concept. 6. To satisfy the functional requirements needed in an exhibition area, guest house facility, restaurant, gift shop, and office area.
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Forster, Elisabeth. "The invention of the new culture movement in 1919." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:81342b7c-7015-4968-8c42-a6aff6e4eab8.
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The expression ‘New Culture Movement’ was born in summer 1919, in the intersections of academic debate, political activism, media coverage and intellectual marketing strategies. I have traced the emergence of the phrase and the discourses around it, using sources like journals, newspapers, student essays, advertisements and conference protocols. The New Culture Movement was a buzzword, deployed by practically-minded but lesser-known intellectuals to promote agendas they had held long before its invention. Many notions we associate with the Movement until today already surrounded it in 1919: for example, that it was connected to the political protests of ‘May Fourth,’ and driven by star intellectuals such as Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu. But closer scrutiny reveals that the New Culture Movement and its network of associations were a construct, an amalgam of newspaper stories and intellectual marketing ploys: the connection to May Fourth was created by newspapers; the intellectuals at the periphery drew upon Hu Shi’s and Chen Duxiu’s prestige to add glamour to their own agendas. Nevertheless, the New Culture Movement shaped China’s 20th century. As only some agendas could credibly be sold as the Movement, it catalysed the plethora of competing agendas that had emerged since the 19th century to tackle the challenges of a changed world order. The New Culture Movement later became a founding myth of ‘Modern China’ and was regarded as the obvious result of global trends towards ‘modernisation,’ which visionary intellectuals recognised. But more recent literature has decentred the Movement, noted a longer history of its ideas and the careerism of its participants. I drive this point further by showing that, at the Movement’s very core, were practically-minded business and marketing strategies, deployed by numerous, lesser-known actors. It was in this way that the course for 20th-century China and one of its founding myths was set.
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Dai, Qian. "Social identity and self-esteem among Mainland Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese, British born Chinese and white Scottish children." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8837.
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The Chinese community is the fastest growing non-European ethnic group in the UK, with 11.2% annual growth between 2001 and 2007. According to the National Statistics office (2005), there are over a quarter of a million Chinese in Britain. Compared to other ethnic minority groups, the Chinese group is socio-economically widespread, characterized by high academic achievements and high household income. It is estimated that there are about 30,000 Chinese immigrant children studying in British schools, 75% of who were born in the UK. These children face a complex process of establishing their social identity, maintaining their own cultural roots whilst adapting to the British cultural contexts. The predominant psychological interpretation of social identity formation is founded on Social Identity Theory (Tajfel, 1978). Social identity creates and defines an individual’s place in society. One of the key features in social identity theory is ingroup favouritism and out-group derogation (Tajfel & Turner, 1986). The function and motivation for in-group and out-group attitude construction is to promoting a positive self-concept and related self-esteem. Theoretical approaches to understanding social identity that take a developmental perspective are Cognitive Development Theory (CDT) (Aboud, 1988, 2008) and Social Identity Developmental Theory (SIDT) (Nesdale, 2004, 2008). These theories attempt to explain the age related development in children’s inter- and intra-group attitudes. There are different types of social identities, and ethnic identity as well as national identity are the central focus of the current research. Some researchers have pointed out that ethnic identity is relevant to self-esteem and it is particularly important to children from ethnic minority backgrounds (Phinney, 1992). However, the research on social identity is predominantly conducted in Western contexts and there is lack of evidence supporting the generalization of developmental models of social identity in children to all ethnic groups and particularly those growing up in different cultures and national contexts. The research reported in this thesis is a cross cultural and developmental study which compares social identity in relation to self-esteem among British born Chinese (BBC), white British, Hong Kong Chinese and Mainland Chinese children. The overarching aim is to explore the influence of social context and ethnic culture on social identity development and self-esteem. Three research studies were conducted in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Scotland with 464 children across three age groups, age 8, 11 and 14 years (148 children from Mainland China, 155 Hong Kong Chinese children, 70 British born Chinese children, and 91 Scottish children). In addition, 46 parents of BBC children were surveyed to investigate their cultural orientation. The first study was designed to explore cultural similarities and differences in social identity and its relation to self-esteem across four groups of children in three age groups. Social identity (self-description questionnaire) and self-esteem (Harter’s Self-esteem questionnaire) were measured with all four groups of children. The result revealed significant differences of social identity across the groups. Four cultural groups of children think individual self was the most common form of identity. All the Chinese groups emphasized show more collective self than white Scottish children whereas the white Scottish sample of children placed more focused on individual identity. All four groups of children had high self-esteem, and no correlation was evident between social identity and self-esteem. Furthermore, analysis found no significant developmental change in social identity or self-esteem with age. The second study focused on BBC and white Scottish children: these share national context, but differ in ethnic identity. The study was designed to explore children’s national self-categorisation, the degree of national/ethnic identification (Chinese, Scottish, or both), and their perception of the positive and negative traits of Chinese and Scottish people across the age (using a Trait Attribution Task). BBC children’s sense of national identity varied in different national contexts, whereas white Scottish children were more fixed in their sense of national identity. Furthermore, BBC children attributed more positive traits to Chinese than to Scottish people, and white Scottish children attributed more positive traits to Scottish than to Chinese. BBC and white Scottish children evaluated both Chinese and Scottish groups positively, but they both attributed more positive traits to in-groups than out-groups. Some age-related differences were identified for degree of national identification. The third study introduced a novel social identity vignettes task to examine BBC and white Scottish children’s perceptions of ethnic identity of a Chinese character within two contrasting socio-cultural contexts (Scottish versus Chinese). This study addresses the question of whether children’s social identifications are adaptive and sensitive to social context, and how this contextual sensitivity might change with age. It also explored the link between parents’ attitudes towards their children’s cultural orientation and children’s national/ethnic identity in identity vignettes. The study revealed that both BBC and Scottish children judged the vignette characters as having a stronger Chinese identity or Scottish identity according to whether they were described in a Chinese or Scottish vignette. This cultural sensitivity increased with age. Both groups had a positive evaluation of the vignette characters’ self-esteem in both Chinese and Scottish cultural situations. Parental cultural orientation attitudes (using General Ethnicity Questionnaire) towards their children were also examined and differences of language proficiency among BBC children were identified. There is no connection between children’s strength of Chinese and Scottish identification and parents’ strength of cultural orientation towards Chinese or Scottish. Together, the findings presented in this thesis extend our understanding of social identity development, ethnic and national attitudes and the developmental intergroup attitudes among children from different national and ethnic groups. Furthermore, findings indicate that social identity is a complex and dynamic process in children’s development that cannot be understood without considering national and specific socio-cultural contexts as frames of reference. The findings of this research have important implications for child-related policy and practice and for future research on social identity development.
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Zheng, Yu. ""The Screaming Successor": Exploring the Chinese Metal Scene in Contemporary Chinese Society (1996-2015)." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1479453595002855.
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Zhou, Yan. "The centrality of culture in art the contemporary challenge to Chinese artists, particularly Wenda Gu /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1117046188.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xvii, 298 p.; also includes graphics (some col.) Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-217). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Chang, Alicia. "Language, culture and number differences in Mandarin Chinese and English numeric language input /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1580830101&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Dai, Lei. "Translation strategies for the Chinese culture-specific expressions in the Chinese Premier's press conferences." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/11127.
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This research is located within the framework of descriptive translation studies and corpus-based contrastive discourse analysis. Modern Translation Studies has growingly taken into account the complexities of culture-specific expressions in literary translation. Conference interpreting setting has paradoxically not been touched upon. Through an empirical case study of the interpretation of Chinese culture-specific expressions in ten Chinese Premier’s Press Conferences, this thesis aims to contribute to a better understanding of interpreting culture-specific expressions in a conference interpreting setting. Methodologically, this thesis integrates the linguistic approach with the culture-oriented approach, empiricism with interpretivism and quantitative with qualitative research. It began with a detailed transcription of ten unrevised press conference video recordings downloaded from Internet. With such transcription, the specialized corpora constituted by the Chinese culture-specific expressions and their interpretations were built and coded innovatively using the four translation strategies converted from the six kernel theories within the theoretical framework of this thesis. Contrastive discourse analysis of the specialized corpora was carried out against such extra-textual resources as the media coverage of the press conference, the lectures given by the government interpreters and so on. Translation norms that reflect the regularities of how the four translation strategies are used were derived from such large-scale case studies and tested against more cases before being qualitatively analyzed to explain why they exist and how they were manifested in the selection of translation strategies in the specialized corpora. This thesis claims contribution to existing literature in terms of theory and methodology. Theoretically, it proposed six translation norms of the use of four translation strategies for the five categories of the Chinese culture-specific expressions in the Chinese Premier’s Press Conferences with a core argument that the interpreters’ selection of translation strategies is subject more to contexts than to their subjectivity, which empirically confirms for the first time Eco-translatology Theory’s central claim that an interpreter selects translation strategies by adapting to contexts. In addition, as a pioneering study on cultural expressions under conference interpreting context, this research increases the explanatory power of relevant translation theories because it spans literary translation and conference interpreting. Methodologically, translation strategies were converted from relevant translation theories and used as descriptive categories for corpus-based contrastive analysis, which constitutes an originality in contrast to previous research that teem with researcher-named strategies and confuse translation strategies with translation methods. Furthermore, this research improves transcription coding and corpus building tactics, making data analysis not only more systematic but also more accessible to readers who do not know both languages.
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Jing, Yujuan. "Reconstructing Ancient Chinese Cultural Memory in the Context of Xianxia TV Drama." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446181.
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This study explores how Chinese ancient cultural memory is constructed, and specifically how it is reconstructed through Chinese Xianxia TV dramas during the past five years. Ancient Chinese culture has become a hit in Chinese popular culture today, in which Xianxia TV dramas draw the biggest audiences. This study focuses on the ways, namely the transformations between cultural memory as storage memory to cultural memory as living functional memory, in which the Xianxia genre reconstructs the past. Bringing together a ritual view of communication, cultural memory and participatory culture, it applies a cultural approach to communication, which refers to the production and the fandom reception of Xianxia TV drama. Meanwhile, the perspective of culture industry provides a critical dimension to look into this highly commercial genre. This study is based on the analysis of content and representations of the theme song lyrics, posters and the general narratives of six selected Xianxia TV dramas, as well as a virtual ethnography of fan-generated videos and their comments. The findings suggest that, the reconstruction of ancient Chinese cultural memory in Xianxia TV dramas is a complex interplay between the culture industry logics of Xianxia production and the passionate participatory fan culture. The limited representations of the past in the series are absorbed and practiced by the fan audiences. Through fan practices, the fans extend the media text with their passion and knowledge of ancient culture, attaching the cultural memory into their present real-life cultural identity and hence vigorously transforming cultural memory from storage memory into functional memory. This study speaks to the lack of bottom-up perspectives in the studies of the ancient culture revival trend in China, and it contributes to a deeper scholarly understanding of the Xianxia genre.
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Ji, Jingyi. "Encounters between Chinese culture and christianity : a hermeneutical perspective /." Berlin : Lit, 2007. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9783825807092.
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Wang, Lin. "Wang Shuo and the commercialisation of contemporary Chinese culture." Thesis, Durham University, 2006. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2602/.
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This thesis examines the commercialisation of Chinese culture that has taken place over the past twenty years in mainland China. It explores the contribution of Wang Shuo, a cultural figure who straddles different fields of culture, moving from literature to the ultimate mass culture medium of television, this study plots Wang Shuo' s development from educational failure, to business failure, to fiction writer, film & TV editor, film director and cultural critic and analyst. His stories, films, TV series and articles have caused shock-waves throughout national cultural circles as he has transformed the terms of the debate from academic discourse to a validation of the role of the market in the culture field. Although Wang Shuo has not been labelled as a dissident, his approach to the culture market has had a more subversive effect on official ideology that those overt dissidents who have had to live in exile or have been imprisoned. He has utilised the language of official ideology to satirise the authorities, turning the ideology and its supporters into figures of fun. Yet his own goals have been strictly personal and economic ones. The authorities recognize the value of Wang Shuo's work in the cultural market but at the same time distrust his works and place him under strict censorship. Examining the way Wang Shuo and people surround him have succeeded in different fields of cultural achievement is a mirror to understanding the process of the transformation of contemporary Chinese culture from a socialist state-controlled culture to a market-oriented mass culture industry.
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Leung, K. S. "Culture within a social context : Chinese parenting in Britain." Thesis, Swansea University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.637880.
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This study stresses the importance for professionals who work with Chinese families to respect and appreciate individual experience and opinions which may vary from the general theories. The oral histories of Chinese parents have highlighted the similarity and differences in their experiences and feelings as well as their strength and difficulties in Britain. Ecological, situational, cultural imperatives, personal background and circumstances, survival and adaptive strategies all have their impact in Chinese parenting and cause intragroup variations in the ways that Chinese children are brought up in Britain. Moreover, the childcare concepts expressed in the parenting practice of Chinese families have to be understood within their cultural and social context. The research findings support an interactionistic cultural-ecological view of Chinese parenting in Britain. The conclusions reached in this thesis lead the researcher to argue that there should be a greater level of co-operation between mainstream professionals and Chinese professionals/individuals in understanding childcare welfare in Britain, and a far better understanding of each other's roles and expertise in this process of change.
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Lo, Vivienne Wen-Ying. "The influence of 'Yangsheng' culture on early Chinese medicine." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286372.
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Chern, Shu-ling. "The Diamond Sutra in Chinese culture : before the Sung." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.392843.
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Kyriakopoulos, Sarantos. "Amino acid metabolism in Chinese hamster ovary cell culture." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/25143.
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The present thesis focuses on amino acids (a.a.) and their metabolism by Chinese hamster ovary cells, the workhorse of the multibillion dollar biopharmaceutical industry. The aim of the research was to explore a.a. transport and metabolism and define optimal operating conditions during fed-batch culture, which is the most common process mode used industrially. A fast and reliable way to calculate a.a. concentration ranges in media and feeds is of vital importance, as a.a. are the monomers of proteins, which account for 70% of dry cell weight. The desired recombinant product of bioprocesses is typically also a protein. The transport of a.a. into the cells was studied at the mRNA level of a.a. transporters for the first time in a bioprocessing context. The presented results demonstrate that a.a. transport is not the limiting step for recombinant protein formation. Also, the study allowed for a staged feeding strategy to be designed, where a.a. were not fed altogether. Following linear projection of an integral of viable cell concentration target and using the specific a.a. consumption rates during batch culture, six feeds were formulated containing a.a. and glucose. Three designs were based on the results of the a.a. transport study; however, they underperformed in comparison to the other feeds. In the latter, all nutrients were fed at the same time, resulting in cell culture performance comparable to that obtained with a commercial feed that was tested in parallel. This renders the presented method the first to define a traceable quantitative way to calculate amount of nutrients in the feeds. Flux balance analysis, a powerful technique that allows for investigation of intracellular dynamics, was used to analyse the metabolic data. An enhanced intracellular network was created by coupling two pre-existing in the literature that also for the first time included the glycosylation of the host proteins in the biomass equation. Finally, a novel methodology was developed and coded in R to calculate specific rates of consumption/production of various metabolites in cell culture. The methodology couples mass balances for fed-batch culture operation with constructed vectors of the sampling and feeding schemes. This can be further developed to a bioprocess relevant software platform for analysing cell culture data.
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Yang, Jia. "Toward a Pedagogy of Conventional Expressions in Chinese Culture." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397695945.
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Liao, Samuel. "A system approach to church administration in Chinese culture." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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Howlett, William IV. "The Rise of China's Hacking Culture: Defining Chinese Hackers." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/383.
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China has been home to some of the most prominent hackers and hacker groups of the global community throughout the last decade. In the last ten years, countless attacks globally have been linked to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) or those operating within the PRC. This exploration attempts to investigate the story, ideology, institutions, actions, and motivations of the Chinese hackers collectively, as sub-groups, and as individuals. I will do this using sources ranging from basic news coverage, interviews with experts and industry veterans, secondary reportage, leaked documents from government and private sources, government white papers, legal codes, blogs and microblogs, a wide array of materials from the darker corners of the online world, and many other materials. The work will begin to sketch for the reader some of the general and specific aspects of the shadowy world of cybercrime and hacker culture in China in recent years. One of the most prevalent beliefs is that the Chinese government is in fact the one responsible, whether directly or by sponsor, for cyber-attacks on foreign systems. My careful analysis has revealed is not always the case, or at least more complex than simply labeling the group as a state actor. At the root of these attacks is a social movement of "hacktivists," a patriotic sub-culture of Chinese hackers. It is incorrect to allege that all attacks are performed by state-sponsored individuals or groups, because there are many individuals and groups that are motivated by other factors.
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Martalo, Camilla <1995>. "Chinese and Italian leadership styles: a cross-culture study." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18635.
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The main goal of this dissertation thesis is to individuate, define, and demonstrate the similarities between the Chinese and Italian culture. To reach this goal, the study focuses on the different styles of leadership existing in the two cultures, analyzing the specific situation of the small-medium enterprises in the secondary sector of the economy. These last factors have been examined because they represent a salient position in the labor market of both countries. A wide section is dedicated to the literature review. The research aims to identify and analyze the cardinal concepts and elements, such as culture, small and medium enterprises, and leadership, from an etymologic to a historical point of view. In this initial part, a few theories are traced. To demonstrate these hypotheses, statistical surveys have been performed. The method used is the questionnaire and it is defined and explained in the second part of the work. The original survey is written in English, but it has been translated into Italian and Chinese to help the interviewees to have a better understanding of it. It has been sent to various employees of SMEs working in the second sector in China and Italy. The questions are brief and straightforward, in order to collect information about the managing environment in the areas of interest and to have a clear understanding of the single point of view. The final part is dedicated to the analysis of the collected data and the conclusive interpretation.
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Salviati, Filippo. "The jades of the Liangzhu culture : an iconographical study." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243286.
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Zeng, Zhe. "Pour une application du Feng shui dans la conception de l’architecture contemporaine et son environnement : contribution à la recherche de l’origine de ses fondements." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOU20017.
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Le Feng shui regroupe les connaissances des Chinois sur les notions de temps, d’espace, d’environnement et lieu de vie (ville et habitation). C’est en effet le Feng shui qui a guidé, dès son « avènement » presque toutes les constructions édifiées pour les vivants et pour les morts en Chine. Aujourd’hui l’écologie et la protection de l’environnement sont les premières questions à prendre en compte dans la conception architecturale. Face à l’idée transmise par le Feng shui , nous ne pouvons pas nous empêcher de penser qu’une telle discipline si ancienne, très centrée sur l’environnement et l’habitation, peut servir de référence et d’inspiration au design de l’architecture moderne et au traitement de l’environnement . La question fondamentale de cette recherche est de savoir quelle est, ou quelles sont, la ou les véritable(s) source(s) de la pensée Feng shui. Au travers de nos recherches, nous tenons à prendre un certain recul vis-à-vis de la multitude de méthodes du Feng shui pour pouvoir pleinement nous concentrer sur leur philosophie transversale et ainsi tenter de synthétiser les différentes approches que l’on peut avoir de l’ensemble du monde Feng shui. Nous avons trouvé deux grands « fils rouges » de la doctrine Feng shui .Premier fil : le « qi 气» est la matière fondamentale de la composition du monde. Deuxième fil : La temporalité et l’action du Ciel comprise comme une puissance impersonnelle et ordonnatrice s’exerçant sur le monde au travers des régularités naturelles. Cette recherche est dans le but de construire une structure de recherche sur le sujet de « l’application du FENG SHUI dans la conception architecturale contemporaine et son environnement »The Feng shui brings together the knowledge of the Chinese on the notions of time, space, environment and all the building infrastructures. It is indeed Feng shui has guided, from its "coming" almost all the buildings constructed for the living and for the dead in China. Modern ecology and environmental protection are the top priorities to be considered in architectural design. Faced with the idea transmitted by the Feng shui, we can’t help thinking that such ancient discipline, very focused on the environment and housing, can serve as a reference and inspiration in the design of contemporary architecture and treatment of the environment. The basic question of this research is to know what was, or what were, the true (s) source (s) of the doctrine of Feng shui. Through our research, we want to take a step back to the multitude of methods of Feng Shui, and intended to fully concentrate on their cross philosophy, and try to synthesize the different approaches that can have globally of the Feng shui. We have found two major "red threads" of Feng shui .First thread: the "qi 气" is the basic material of the composition of the world. Second thread: Temporality and action of Heaven understood as an impersonal power and instructing exerted on the world through natural regularities. This research is in order to build a research facility on the topic of "the application of Feng Shui in contemporary architectural and environment design" and we hope that this first step will be considered important to the continued reflection