The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation
| dc.contributor.advisor | Macdonald, Helen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chen, Tian | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-22T09:16:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-03-22T09:16:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2022-03-22T05:36:27Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This in-depth ethnographic study focuses on state-sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics (OCAs) and China's managed cultural globalisation based on two years of multi-sited fieldwork in South Africa, Australia, and China. Extending Goffman's (1956) theoretical frameworks of everyday dramatism such as the frontstage and the backstage, I adopt the middlestage as the primary conceptual lens of my investigation. The middlestage of China's managed cultural globalisation is examined as a fluid and embodied space where state-sponsored OCAs and Chinese state institutions negotiate power in the process of producing performances. I argue that for state-sponsored OCAs, the middlestage of China's managed cultural globalisation is simultaneously a space of curation, negotiation, and re-imagination. The research also incorporates an ethnographic fiction titled The Islanders and provides a thick description of my state-sponsored OCA participants' life trajectories. The Islanders reveals how individual OCAs curate their performances and self-presentations, negotiate their social mobility and identities; and reimagine their realities whilst seeking conviviality on the middlestage. The thesis discusses and demonstrates how ethnographic fiction can be used as an essential tool for anthropological research. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Chen, T. (2021). <i>The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation</i>. (). ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of African and GenderStuds, Anth and Ling. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36185 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Chen, Tian. <i>"The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation."</i> ., ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of African and GenderStuds, Anth and Ling, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36185 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Chen, T. 2021. The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation. . ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of African and GenderStuds, Anth and Ling. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36185 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Doctoral Thesis AU - Chen, Tian AB - This in-depth ethnographic study focuses on state-sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics (OCAs) and China's managed cultural globalisation based on two years of multi-sited fieldwork in South Africa, Australia, and China. Extending Goffman's (1956) theoretical frameworks of everyday dramatism such as the frontstage and the backstage, I adopt the middlestage as the primary conceptual lens of my investigation. The middlestage of China's managed cultural globalisation is examined as a fluid and embodied space where state-sponsored OCAs and Chinese state institutions negotiate power in the process of producing performances. I argue that for state-sponsored OCAs, the middlestage of China's managed cultural globalisation is simultaneously a space of curation, negotiation, and re-imagination. The research also incorporates an ethnographic fiction titled The Islanders and provides a thick description of my state-sponsored OCA participants' life trajectories. The Islanders reveals how individual OCAs curate their performances and self-presentations, negotiate their social mobility and identities; and reimagine their realities whilst seeking conviviality on the middlestage. The thesis discusses and demonstrates how ethnographic fiction can be used as an essential tool for anthropological research. DA - 2021_ DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Anthropology LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2021 T1 - The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation TI - The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36185 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36185 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Chen T. The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation. []. ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of African and GenderStuds, Anth and Ling, 2021 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36185 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | School of African and GenderStuds, Anth and Ling | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | |
| dc.subject | Anthropology | |
| dc.title | The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation | |
| dc.type | Doctoral Thesis | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | PhD |