Culture, Music Education, and the Chinese Dream in Mainland China

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wai-Chung Ho
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Chinese Dream ◽  
The Chinese Dream

The Chinese Dream

Asian Survey ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-245
Author(s):  
Michelle Hui-Ju Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Mainland China ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
Chinese Dream ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
The Chinese Dream ◽  
Disciplinary System

Starting from Xi Jinping’s political initiative the Chinese Dream, this paper examines its capitalist and nationalist discourse constructed through the nation’s disciplinary system, and seeks to unravel how it is enmeshed with business operations in mainland China. The paper argues that Taiwanese businesspersons play an ambiguous role in the dream as both “foreign” and “Chinese” investors.

Globalization, Nationalism, and Music Education in the Twenty-First Century in Greater China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wai-Chung Ho
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
First Century ◽  
Greater China ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
China Mainland ◽  
The Impact

Globalization, Nationalism, and Music Education in the Twenty-First Century in Greater China examines the recent developments in school education and music education in Greater China – Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan – and the relationship between, and integration of, national cultural identity and globalization in their respective school curriculums. Regardless of their common history and cultural backgrounds, in recent decades, these localities have experienced divergent political, cultural, and educational structures. Through an analysis of the literature, official curriculum documents, approved music textbooks, and a survey questionnaire and in-depth interviews with music teachers, this book also examines the ways in which policies for national identity formation and globalization interact to complement and contradict each other in the context of music education in respect to national and cultural values in the three territories. Wai-Chung Ho’s substantive research interests include the sociology of music, China’s education system, and the comparative study of East Asian music education. Her research focuses on education and development, with an emphasis on the impact of the interplay between globalization, nationalization, and localization on cultural development and school music education.

scholarly journals The Dream of the Dragon: A content analysis of Xi Jinping’s “China Dream”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Adam Osborne-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Potential Change ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Chinese Dream ◽  
The Chinese Dream ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
China Dream

<p>China under Xi Jinping has a story to tell. In recent years, China has devoted more time and energy extending its discursive influence overseas. Aspirational propaganda slogans such as Xi’s “Chinese dream” indicate a potential change from Deng Xiaoping’s “bide your time, hide your strength” towards an outwardly focussed foreign policy of Striving for Achievement as China’s confidence grows. This project conducts a content analysis following the method set out by Klaus Krippendorff of 1907 Xinhua articles from 2013 – 2017 and finds that while this assertion was true shortly after articulation; coverage reverted to an inward focus in subsequent years. Furthermore, the findings show that there is an individualistic aspect to how the dream is portrayed whether it is intended by top government figures or not. Understanding how tifa develop, interrelate – or depart from each other – is vital in understanding contemporary political discourse in China. Lastly, the Chinese dream contains within it the beginnings of a prototype vision of Chinese exceptionalism.</p>

scholarly journals Branding the Chinese Dream: Reception of China’s Public Diplomacy in Britain’s “Cultural China”

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 15-35
Author(s):  
Yan Wu ◽  
Sian Rees ◽  
Richard Thomas ◽  
Yakun Yu
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Nation Branding ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Chinese Dream ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Brand Values ◽  
Focus Group Data ◽  
The Chinese Dream

Over four decades, China’s transformed propaganda system has embraced public diplomacy to dispel its perceived “threat.” The most recent strategy has been the branding of the Chinese Dream narrative. Although there has been some academic focus on China’s nation branding, little has been written about its reception by overseas audiences. Accordingly, this article draws on focus-group data and employs Tu Wei-ming’s “cultural China” framework in exploring how the Chinese Dream is received and interpreted in the United Kingdom. This article contributes to understandings of nation branding by recognising how Chinese diaspora communities and British intellectual and professional elites engage with and promote brand values. It argues that the socio-cultural aspect of branding is important for China’s identity and that using the Chinese Dream as a branding narrative is successful when it focuses on cultural and economic messaging but divides opinion when political ideology is used. Image © Yan Wu

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