This blog features short essays between 700 and 2000 words, analysing catchwords/phrases in Chinese contexts to inform academic and public understanding of contemporary and transnational China.
This research blog features short reflective and analytical essays about Chinese catchwords and catchphrases, which include those currently used in Chinese languages as well as catchwords or catchphrases about China in other languages.
Catchwords and catchphrases emerge from and circulate across various linguistic, social and cultural settings, including policy, academic papers, entertainment, everyday conversations, social movements, news media, social media, and more. This blog aims to generate discussions about discovering, examining and analysing these catchwords or catchphrases in Chinese contexts and how they can inform our understandings of 'China'. To initiate this conversation this blog proposes that a catchword/phrase can be loosely defined in relation to some or all of the following features:
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The blog is moderated by Dr Xumeng XIE. Contents featured on this blogsite will be selected by the moderator. Authors are responsible for the views expressed in the essays and for proofreading and checking sources of information.
It is a branch of a larger collaborative project Analysing Contemporary Political Catchwords, coordinated at The Open University, UK, with participants and partners in Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, India, Jordan, Spain, and the UK.
A discussion of methods for studying political catchwords is available at the Concepts and Methods blog of the collaborative project website.
For a British perspective on political catchwords and catchphrases in English, visit our other branch here.
For political catchphrases in India, visit our other branch here.
Links to posts in chronological order or catchwords/phrases in alphabetical order.