Chapter 13. “Keeping up with the times”
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Xuefei Ma
Abstract
Formulations (Schoenhals 1992; Hershatter 1997) are fixed ways of distributing political norms in Chinese politics. This paper reads re-formulations on the two pivotal categories of women – nüxing (woman-sex) in the republican era and funü (wife-woman) in the revolutionary era – and the propaganda of “keeping up with the times” (“与时俱进”) in the post-Mao People’s Daily. It argues that these categories’ embodied historical affects produce new affective values in the post-Mao public discourse, thus attaching women to the nation in specific ways; these values are used by the state to mediate the tensions between different female social groups in China’s rapidly-changing society and its self-positioning in the global context.
Abstract
Formulations (Schoenhals 1992; Hershatter 1997) are fixed ways of distributing political norms in Chinese politics. This paper reads re-formulations on the two pivotal categories of women – nüxing (woman-sex) in the republican era and funü (wife-woman) in the revolutionary era – and the propaganda of “keeping up with the times” (“与时俱进”) in the post-Mao People’s Daily. It argues that these categories’ embodied historical affects produce new affective values in the post-Mao public discourse, thus attaching women to the nation in specific ways; these values are used by the state to mediate the tensions between different female social groups in China’s rapidly-changing society and its self-positioning in the global context.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Introduction. Language, culture and identity 1
- Chapter 1. Philosophy and philosophical practice 7
- Chapter 2. Translation and transnationality in the Himalaya 23
- Chapter 3. North-South relations in linguistic science 43
- Chapter 4. My journey as an indigenous Xinguan teacher and researcher 63
- Chapter 5. The representation-cohesion-stance hypothesis 75
- Chapter 6. A framing-based account of critical cultural awareness 111
- Chapter 7. Cultural “Signs of life” in politics 141
- Chapter 8. Construing the self in discourse 157
- Chapter 9. Embodiment, personification, identity 181
- Chapter 10. Mid hefigum byrþenum 203
- Chapter 11. Cultural and cognitive aspects of narrative 227
- Chapter 12. How can I persuade you without making self-assertions? 249
- Chapter 13. “Keeping up with the times” 275
- Chapter 14. A study of Chinese non-basic color terms from the perspective of cognitive semantics 295
- Index 317
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Introduction. Language, culture and identity 1
- Chapter 1. Philosophy and philosophical practice 7
- Chapter 2. Translation and transnationality in the Himalaya 23
- Chapter 3. North-South relations in linguistic science 43
- Chapter 4. My journey as an indigenous Xinguan teacher and researcher 63
- Chapter 5. The representation-cohesion-stance hypothesis 75
- Chapter 6. A framing-based account of critical cultural awareness 111
- Chapter 7. Cultural “Signs of life” in politics 141
- Chapter 8. Construing the self in discourse 157
- Chapter 9. Embodiment, personification, identity 181
- Chapter 10. Mid hefigum byrþenum 203
- Chapter 11. Cultural and cognitive aspects of narrative 227
- Chapter 12. How can I persuade you without making self-assertions? 249
- Chapter 13. “Keeping up with the times” 275
- Chapter 14. A study of Chinese non-basic color terms from the perspective of cognitive semantics 295
- Index 317
