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The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation
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...
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| author | Chen, Tian |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/36185 The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation Chen, Tian Macdonald, Helen Anthropology 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. 2022-03-22T09:16:14Z 2022-03-22T09:16:14Z 2021 2022-03-22T05:36:27Z Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36185 eng application/pdf School of African and GenderStuds, Anth and Ling Faculty of Humanities |
| spellingShingle | Anthropology Chen, Tian The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation |
| title_full | The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation |
| title_fullStr | The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation |
| title_short | The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation |
| title_sort | middlestage state sponsored overseas chinese academics and china s managed cultural globalisation |
| topic | Anthropology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36185 |
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