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CHINA SEMINAR | 08 MAY 2012 | Yunxiang Yan | Immorality and Its Moral Implications in Contemporary China

Immorality and Its Moral Implications in Contemporary China

Speaker:  Prof. Yunxiang Yan (Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Californa Los Angeles)
Expertise:  Social change and development, family and kinship, cultural globalization, morality, the individual and individualization 

***PLEASE NOTE: DIFFERENT DAY AND VENUE FROM THE USUAL!***

Date and time:  Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 15.00 - 17.00h
Venue:  Arsenaal building, East Asian Library, Green Room
Language:  English

Abstract:

The present study first examines two types of immoral behavior in contemporary Chinese society: the extortion of Good Samaritans and the production and circulation of poisonous foods.  Next it takes a close look at the moral experiences and moral sentiments of immorality among individuals who were victims of immoral acts or, in a few cases, individuals who recalled their own feelings of being immoral.  The presentation concludes with an analysis of the moral implications of immorality in the larger setting of contemporary Chinese society, raising the question that whether anomy has arrived at China. 

Speaker's Resume:

 Yunxiang Yan, professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.  He earned a BA and MA in Chinese literature at Peking University, China, and a Ph.D. in anthropology at Harvard University.  He is the author of The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village (Stanford University Press, 1996), Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 (Stanford University Press, 2003), and The Individualization of Chinese Society (Berg Press, 2009) and one of the team authors of Deep China: The Making of the Moral Person (University of California Press, 2011).  His research interests include family and kinship, social change, social inequality and hierarchy, consumerism, cultural globalization, and individualization process and moral changes.

Selected publications of Prof. Yan:

The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996) 

Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003). 

The Individualization of Chinese Society (Oxford: Berg, 2009) 

“The Good Samaritan’s New Trouble: A Study of the Changing Moral Landscape in Contemporary China.” Social Anthropology 17 (1): 9-24 (2009). 

“Introduction: Conflicting Images of the Individual and Contested Process of Individualization.” In Mette Halskov Hansen and Rune Svarverud (eds.) i China: The Rise of the Individual in Modern Chinese Society, pp. 1-38. Copenhagen: NIAS Press (2010). 

"The Chinese Path to Individualization," The British Journal of Sociology 61(3): 489-512 (2010).



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CHINA SEMINAR | 02 May 2012 | Florian Schneider | Mass Culture and the Construction of Political Discourse

In co-operation with

SVS Leiden:

We, the SVS (Student Association Sinology), want to give 'our' staff members of the Leiden Sinology Institute a platform where they can present their research. This way, students can find out what their teachers really do.

Mass Culture and the Construction of Political Discourse – Visual Communication in Popular Chinese Television Dramas

Speaker:  Dr. Florian Schneider (LIAS, Chinese Studies) 
Expertise:  Politics of Modern China

Date and time:  Wednesday, 2 May 2012, 15.15 - 17.00h
Venue:  Lipsius 147
Language:  English

Abstract:
We live in the age of mass art. Watching popular entertainment formats such as TV drama series has become one of the most common pastimes, in China as much as elsewhere. In China, this format consistently scores the highest viewer ratings out of fifteen television programming categories, attracting more than a third of the nationwide audiences. The average Chinese person watches between one and two episodes per day. This makes TV dramas twice as popular as the second most-commonly watched television format: the news. The ubiquity of drama entertainment raises several questions: what messages do popular series communicate to their audience? Who is behind these messages, and what social and political implications might they have?

Speaker's resume:
Florian Schneider is Lecturer for the Politics of Modern China at the Leiden University Institute of Area Studies. His research interests include questions of governance and public administration in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, political communication strategies and political content of Chinese popular culture, as well as Chinese foreign policy. His research approach combines discourse analysis with semiotics as well as cognitive sciences. His monograph Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series is forthcoming for October 2012. Schneider’s most recent project focuses on the political relevance of staged mass-media events in mainland China, such as the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, the 60th Anniversary of the PRC in 2009, and the Shanghai Expo 2010.

E-mail:  f.a.schneider@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Website: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lias/organisation/chinese/schneiderfa.html

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