Identity, Space, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Northeast China

"Theoretically engaged and empirically rich, this volume takes an innovative approach to enhance our understanding of China through the study of Dongbei, China's North-East region. One of the first of its kind, this volume with multi-disciplinary perspectives sheds much light onto the development of China since its reform in late 1970s." – Dr Xiaoling Zhang, Professor in Media and Communication, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. "Combining rich media studies with engaged, humanistic ethnographies, this edited volume remarkably highlights the much-neglected, yet historically and socio-politically significant, region of Dongbei - North-East China, skillfully unraveling Dongbei's historical, social, and cultural transformations as well as diversities in identities, space, and everyday life. Interdisciplinary, inter-textual, and ambitious in scope, this volume makes a major contribution to the literature by accentuating the uniqueness and distinctiveness of Dongbei, from its soccer sport to its neo-Dongbei literature, from its stereotypes and myth to the lived existence of individuals." - Tiantian Zheng, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Anthropology This edited volume is first of its kind to document and critically analyse the changes took place snice China's opening-up and reform and its impact on Dongbei, China's North-East region, known for its remote and vast landscape, unique and othered culture, rich resources, mighty infrastructures and industries, geopolitical significance. Through presenting up-to-date and multidimensional case studies, the book covers three major aspects of Dongbei, which put people at the heart of our scholarly focus, namely people's mediated life through traditional and new media; people's social, cultural, and living spaces; artistic and fictional representations of people's everyday life. Zhen Troy Chen, PhD (Nottingham), FHEA, Senior Lecturer in Media, School of Communication and Creativity, City, University of London. Jiawen Han, PhD (NSWS), FHEA, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Design School, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Xianwen Kuang, PhD (SDU), FHEA, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communication, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Xi Liu, PhD (HKU), FHEA, Associate Professor, Department of China Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

This edited volume is first of its kind to document and critically analyse the changes took place snice China's opening-up and reform and its impact on Dongbei, China's North-East region, known for its remote and vast landscape, unique and othered culture, rich resources, mighty infrastructures and industries, geopolitical significance. Through presenting up-to-date and multidimensional case studies, the book covers three major aspects of Dongbei, which put people at the heart of our scholarly focus, namely people's mediated life through traditional and new media; people's social, cultural, and living spaces; artistic and fictional representations of people's everyday life