JIANG Fei: Game Between “Quan” and “Shi”: Research on “Shanzhai” Culture in China Cyber SpacePost-Olympic Cultur
Quan = Power, Shi = ? maybe a bit like the influence of power, Shanzhai = copycat knock-off
we are limited by the visions and the datasets when it comes to internet research.
he shows the pictures of the shanzhai phenomenon such as double ms that look very simliar to mcdonald’s m. pizzahut to pizzahuff. all kinds of replications of bird nets. netizens make shanzhai lecture to pk cctv. shanzhai version of cdream of red mansions.
the climax to shanzhai culture: shanzhai spring festival evening gala. www.ccstv.net
responses to it: Ni Ping, the former anchor of Spring Festival Gala, absolutely boycotts the shanzhai culture. Director Zhang Yimou wants to leave it alone. Han Han, the famous blogger, thinks no shangzhai, no new china coz everything was copied from other countries. Yin Hong, a scholar, said only elite and modern culture should be the mainstream.
Jiang’s point of view – the event itself is an etertainment event among netizens. it is a chinese robinhood. it is an adult ceremony for chinese netizens. there should be a conexistance of both shanzhai and mainstream culture.
the relationship beween quan and shi in china should be examined against the chinese culture. The seal as the sign of power in history. shi means treatments one accpeted once the person got the quan. the shift of quan and shi in china. gov has quan whereas netizens have shi. if the gov can win the support from the netizens, it will have both quan and shi.
conclusion – shanzhai culture is inevitable. the idea of quan and shi is necessary to under cyber culture in china.
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