| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ENOMOTO Yasuko Chuo University, Faculty of Letters, Associate Prof. (00282509)
SUZUKI Masahisa Meiji University, School of Political Science and Economics, Associate Prof. (00298043)
SAITO Hiroki Toyama University, Faculty of Humanities, Associate Prof. (70361938)
HOSHINO Yukiyo Nagoya University, Grad.School of Languages and Cultures, Assoc.Prof. (00303587)
NISHIMURA Masao Kwansei Gakuin University, School of Sociology, Associate Prof. (80302652)
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this research project is mainly to explore and theorize the dynamics of the media environment and the networks of literary/cultural fields in Beijing and Shanghai, 1920s-1930s, and to develop a new perspective to audience studies, on the following questions regarding the intricate relationship among mass-media such as journalism and print media (i.e. newspapers, magazines and books), audio-visual media (e.g.movies, theaters, photos, radio broad casting, records, music concerts), and, a number of literary/cultural agencies such as authors, editors, producers, performers, critics, readers, listeners, movie-goers, etc. Those questions are briefly : 1) How is the role of these above mentioned media played in the serial process of production, circulation, and, consumption of literary/cultural texts? 2) What happened in the making of literary worlds as such "fields" of cultural production, circulation and consumption? 3) How are the influences of these media to the public sphere and the consciousness of communities (collective identities)? To promote such research, our project gathered and investigated various historical resources and information through visiting research institutions, libraries and archives in Japan as well as Beijing and Shanghai. Finally, an international workshop was held in August 2007 on "Media and Popular Culture in the 1930s' Shanghai," with fruitful academic discussion among scholars of younger generation of Japan and China.
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