Essays about: "Chinese cultural symbols"

Found 3 essays containing the words Chinese cultural symbols.

1. 1. Beer Festival and Place Identity : An Analysis of Munich Oktoberfest And Qingdao International Beer Festival

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Rucheng Wang; [2022]
   Keywords : beer festivals; place identity; uniqueness; authenticity; liminality; Heimat ; nostalgia; globalisation; modernisation;

   Abstract : As microcosms of German and Chinese societies, Munich Oktoberfest and Qingdao International Beer Festival are important manifestations of local culture. This study intends to answer the following question: to which extent are beer festivals in Germany and China related to local history and the local sense of place? A historical overview of the beer festivals in Munich and Qingdao is provided, as well as an analysis of how people seeking a sense of belonging creatively combine cognitive schemata of modernity with local cultural systems on a symbolic level. READ MORE

3. 2. The Diary from Qutang Gorge and the letters about Donner Lake : A literary study of Mulberry and Peach by Nie Hualing

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Ling Jiang Nyfelt; [2022]
   Keywords : Nie Hualing; Chinese cultural symbols; impressionism; Intertextuality; Diasporic literature; Mulberry and Peach; Sangqing yu Taohong; Overseas Chinese literature; 聂华苓; 中国文化象征 ，互文性 ，印象主义， 离散文学， 桑青与桃红 ，海外中国文学;

   Abstract : Mulberry and Peach is a novel written in the 1970s by a Chinese American writer named Nie Hualing (1925- ). It contains overlapping letters and diaries with flashbacks and flashforwards in first-person narration. Taohong is the new identity after Sangqing’s schizophrenia in the USA in 1969-1970. READ MORE

4. 3. The Ideological Transformation of the Icon Chairman Mao during the Four Modernisations period : As illustrated by "Melody of Youth, Beautiful Soul"

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Kinesiska

   Author : Jeremy Biggs; [2016]
   Keywords : Chinese; China; Deconstruction; Iconography; Mao Zedong; Iconographic transformation; Ideology; Maoism; Four Modernisations; Hauntology;

   Abstract : After Chairman Mao's death, in the late 1980's, Mao was removed from official government communications and his iconography transformed from having a specific meaning generation role linked to Maoist ideology, to becoming available for use as a commodity. In this research I use cultural theorist Jacques Derrida's theory of Hauntology and the deconstruction method to analyse a representative Chinese Propaganda poster, "Melody of Youth, Beautiful Soul", in order to ascertain the effect Mao's death had on the Iconography of Chairman Mao, and how Mao is ideologically transformed during this period. READ MORE