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Publisher: EDP Sciences
Date: 2023
DOI: 10.1051/SHSCONF/202316303011
Abstract: The number of World Irrigation Heritage Sites (WHIS), selected by the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), have reached 140 as of 2023, and 83 of them are located in Asia, China, Japan and Korea, which accounts for more than 65% of the total1. This shows that the value of the Eastern Irrigation Project is being recognized worldwide. As an irrigation project, the engineering technology used and the effect of irrigation on the people are one of the most concerned topics, but the spiritual value behind the project are less explored. This paper is based on the investigation and comparison of varied Oriental irrigation heritages of China, Japan and Korea in the register, extracting the common Oriental water control culture of the three countries, and proposing the use of such a culture to help the collaboration around heritage protection in East Asia.
Publisher: SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications
Date: 2022
Publisher: EDP Sciences
Date: 2023
DOI: 10.1051/SHSCONF/202316304006
Abstract: With the steady progress of the “Belt and Road” Initiative construction, the economic and cultural ties between China, Japan, and South Korea have be-come increasingly close. When faced with the global issue of water control, the spirit of harmonious coexistence between human and nature shared by the three countries based on the agricultural culture of the ancient oriental farming civilization will be the key to solving the problem. This paper sum-marizes the internal relationship, scientific nature and modernity of the ori-ental water control culture of China, Japan and Korea, and proposes to carry out cross-cultural communication not only between the three countries but also beyond the border of East Asia.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-04-2022
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X221095580
Abstract: In 2021, a top-down rectification movement called ‘Clean Up’ impinged on Chinese idol fandom culture. This movement triggered discussions about the transforming governance strategy over fandom and broader Chinese Internet users. This article explores the complexity and shift of governance on Chinese idol fans by examining the digital fandom fundraising platform Taoba. Drawing from the walkthrough analysis of xiufen (fans of idol competition shows), we investigate three key stakeholders: platform, state, and xiufen fandom, to reflect on wider Internet governance issues in China. We argue that Chinese idol fans like xiufen are subject to a governance structure where power relations between different players are highly complex and entangled. The state-corporate-society co-opting mode of governance has evolved toward what we termed ‘coercive co-opting’, in which digital platforms and users conform with the imaginaries and ideologies of the state, while the authorities still intervene in an intimidating and suppressive manner.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-08-2023
DOI: 10.1177/20501579231194500
Abstract: This article draws on the concept of “transportal home” to examine the intersection of mobile media, mobility, and place-making among homeless food delivery workers in the Shanghai lockdown. Shanghai's lockdown lasted from February 28 to May 31, 2022, and was one of the strictest in China, resulting in thousands of food delivery riders being locked out of their homes, treated as potential carriers of the virus, and forced to sleep on the streets until the lockdown was lifted. The article uses qualitative research methods to explore the COVID-related homelessness of food delivery riders during the lockdown, focusing on their media practices and highlighting their experiences and agency in using mobile media to negotiate their lives amid the (im)mobile mobility they faced. It argues that mobile phones, as a transportal home, can offer a technological imaginary of home out of “homelessness” however, they also serve as a reminder of the constraints of such an imaginary, as these (temporarily) homeless food delivery riders continue to be subject to platform exploitation and pandemic surveillance.
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