Everyday Life as Resistance: Social and Political Participation through Networked Cultural Practices in Contemporary China

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Abstract: This thesis investigates the social and political significance of cultural practices on the Chinese online sphere. It foregrounds its argument in the larger context of the general landscape of the Chinese Internet, forms and traditions of online activism and political participation, the online censorship mechanism in mainland China, and how these aspects all intersect and interact with each other while being heavily impacted by national policies and the rise of social media. It engages with previous scholarly work that sought to theorize the social and political aspects of Chinese netizens’ cultural lives and practices, and brings in new insights by examining a few noteworthy online events and incidents as case studies. Ultimately, on a theoretical level, the goal of this research is to rethink the dichotomy of resistance versus compliance/assimilation in discussions about the political and social life in China, to trouble and complicate the discourse around online censorship in the Chinese context, and to add to the scholarly discussion on the concept of the public and civil society. It argues for the usefulness of situating the discussion around Chinese netizen’s social and political participation within the larger sociopolitical reality of contemporary Chinese society and the act of navigating everyday life in it.

Type of resource	text
Date created	March 2021

Author	Huo, Charlie
Primary advisor	Inoue, Miyako
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Stanford Global Studies, Center for East Asian Studies

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/fv258bq8918

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Preferred Citation: Huo, Charlie. (2021). Everyday Life as Resistance: Social and Political Participation through Networked Cultural Practices in Contemporary China. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/fv258bq8918

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