Are you interested in Chinese popular culture? Take this course to enhance your understanding of Chinese cinema, music, television, and social media!
Introduction to Chinese Popular Culture
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to popular culture in contemporary China, exploring its emergence across cinema, music, television, and social media creator culture. Participants will explore how popular culture intersects with gender, class, national identity, and political power within the Chinese context. Additionally, the course will examine Chinese popular culture as a part of cultural flows within East Asia. By the end of this course, participants will be familiar with the various forms of popular culture, the factors driving its rapid evolution, and the platformisation of cultural production in China. They will also become familiar with primary sources and academic resources related to China's popular culture, facilitating ongoing engagement and learning beyond the course.
Course information
The course consists of five thematic modules
1. History and Legacies
2. Film
3. Television
4. Music
5. Platformisation of cultural production
This online course will be run in the DigiCampus learning platform. Asynchronous learning allows you to study on your own schedule.
Each module consists of learning materials, assignments and an exam.The assignments vary in length and difficulty, and have limitless attempts. The exams consist of six randomly selected multiple-choice questions. There are three attempts for each exam. In order to complete the course and receive a course certificate, students need to pass all assignments and exams within the course period.
This basic level course is open to everybody. The course aims to impart fundamental knowledge about China to a broad audience, specifically tailored for European students. However, civil servants, journalists, teachers, and similar professionals will also find it valuable.
The core materials consist of short (20 min) recorded lectures and slide decks that are prepared by leading European experts on China. In addition, the versatile learning materials include timelines, infographics, podcasts and open access online materials. Learners will also get acquainted with central sources of information about China, including selected Chinese webpages.
UTU Students can register for this course in Peppi. Accepted UTU students will get an email invitation to the course area on the day the course opens.
Other participants can register directly at the course site in https://digicampus.fi/.
This course is executed by the Centre for East Asian Studies (CEAS) of the University of Turku and it is funded by the EU-project “ReConnect China”.
Person in charge: University Lecturer Outi Luova.