The Crying Students

About The Crying Students

The Crying Students is a podcast initiated by students in the humanities and social sciences who can never find a job.

Publisher

Hannah & William

Category

society & culture

Language

zh

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Jun 2023

Latest episode

21 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

19 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Jun 2026

   The Infrastructure of Knowledge & Who Shapes It 谁在塑造知识，如何生产知识

   Introduction In this episode, we invited Pan, a PhD student in the EU, to discuss a series of soul-searching questions: What are the biggest institutional differences between the humanities and social sciences in Europe, the UK, the US, and China? What roles are played by universities, research institutes, national funding bodies, and the European Research Council (ERC)? Does the funding model affect questions the scholars ask? What do mobility, long-term postdocs, project-based employment, and the tenure system in European academia mean for young scholars? In the second half of the episode, we also discussed broader issues of transnational mobility for academics, research ethics, and ‘guanxi’. Host William, English Guest Pan, Cognitive Neuroscience BGM 僕の戦争(My War) - guitar by まきまきチャンネル / Maki

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   21 May 2026

   Imagining and Narrating Kinship 想象亲缘，叙述亲缘

   Introduction Kinship is to be created, and it can also be continuously generated and transformed through narratives and practices. It is a choice, but not the only social model that brings individuals together. Anthropological research has shown us that before the social form that currently occupies all of humanity's possibilities came to dominate the globe, other societies had alternative modes of child-rearing and interaction that served as substitutes for the family. How we imagine intimacy and the duties of care, and even the future of the family as a structure, requires much patience, curiosity, and imagination. Host William, English Guest Joey, Social Anthropology BGM When Spring Feels Close – Abao

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   2 Mar 2026

   Dying, but Not Dead 尚未宣告死亡

   Hosts Hannah, Media Studies Guests Qingmeng, Journalism and Communication Introduction 自从踏入新世纪后新闻学的生、死、存、亡，变成了一种持续性的悲观预期。新闻衰亡似乎是多方面的，因为失语，因为变为喉舌，因为失去质量，因为无人在意。这种悲观从各个角落渗入，这一切逐渐地挤占了为数不多的生存空间，也变成了可持续发展研究中冷静的指标与模型：监管收紧、媒体技术迭代、受众注意力瞬时性。 然而作为不算局外人的旁观者，我们仍然思考：我们为什么仍然在意新闻？在这期播客中，我们回望了自己关于新闻黄金时期的神话记忆、翻阅不同时期的新闻档案、反思所经历的新闻学训练，也谈论亲身参与写作与采访的具体体验。同时对于现今那些转型的、独立的、多样化的新闻界适应探索，我们也做出了一些观察的汇总。站在学术和行业的中间地带，我们无法宣告新闻学的未来，但至少选择直视夕阳的落下，为这个一直在努力向上反抗的社群，留下一份主观的存档。 Since the turn of the new century, the life and death of journalism has come to be framed as a persistent expectation of decline. Its erosion appears to stem from multiple directions: loss of voice, transformation into a mouthpiece, declining quality, and growing public indifference. This pessimism seeps in from every corner, gradually squeezing what little space for survival remains. Yet as observers who are not entirely outsiders, we continue to ask: why do we still care about journalism? In this episode, we revisit our mythologized memories of journalism’s “golden age,” examine historical news archives, reflect on our academic training in journalism, and discuss our firsthand experiences of writing and reporting. We also synthesize our observations of contemporary adaptive efforts across independent, transitional, and pluralistic forms of journalistic practice. Positioned between academia and the profession, we cannot declare the future of journalism. But we can at least choose to face the setting sun directly, leaving behind a subjective record for a community that continues to struggle upward against the odds.

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   14 Jul 2025

   School of English and the English School 英文系生存指南

   Introduction 数年前曾有一位英文系毕业生向我指出School of English中school一词的双关：英文系的学术训练具有如此强大的解释力，以至于它似乎能借助帝国的力量穿透民族主义，形成一个School（学派）。在我和Fan即将从英文系毕业之际，我们回顾了我们的英文系之旅，并盘点了在英文系可以做的学术与学术之外的各种事情。 为了避免不必要的争议，William在节目中保留了他一贯的观点“英文系学士学位是人类可以获得的最好的学士学位”。 A few years ago, an English graduate once pointed out to me the double meaning of the word school in School of English: the academic training in the School of English is so powerful in its interpretive capacity that it seems capable of penetrating nationalism through the force of empire(s), thereby forming a School (in the sense of a scholarly school of thought). As Fan and I are about to graduate from the School of English, we look back on our journey through the program and take stock of the various things—both academic and beyond—that one can do in a School of English. Host William, School of English Guest Fan, School of English BGM Bloody Mary Girl - She Her Her Hers

5. 

   9 Jul 2025

   University Campus as Heterotopia 作为异托邦的大学校园

   Introduction 自20世纪以来，大学应如何定位其与社会及个体的关系这一问题始终位于公共讨论的核心。作为身处教育机构之中的主体，学生对大学教育的运行逻辑与制度性环境拥有最直接的感知，但也常常承担着失权的处境。在这期播客中，我们通过回望我们在不同地域的高等教育经历，在吐槽和回顾之余，试图进一步拨开那些功利主义、优绩主义和象牙塔的粉红色泡泡，以直面幻像之下那些暗流涌动的日常化的压迫与隐形的权力剥削。 Since the 20th century, the question of how universities should position themselves in relation to society and individuals has remained central to public discourse. As key stakeholders within these institutions, students have the most direct understanding of the logic and norms of higher education, yet they frequently experience disempowerment. In this episode, we reflect on our experiences across different higher educational settings across countries. Beyond venting and nostalgia, we aim to confront the undercurrents of normalised oppression and invisible power dynamics that flow beneath the illusions of utilitarianism and meritocracy. Hosts William, School of English Hannah, Communication Studies Guests Fan, School of English Joey, Communication Studies Qingmeng, Journalism and Communication BGM Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeroes: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

6. 

   1 Jun 2025

   Memory, Beliefs, and Burial Rituals 记忆、信仰与葬礼仪式

   Hosts Hannah and William explore death, ancestral veneration, and memorial rituals, revealing insights into how societies process grief and construct collective memory around loss.

7. 

   3 Mar 2025

   Exploring Queer Temporalities in Video Games 逃离线性时间：酷儿时间与游戏

   Host William, School of English Guest Joey, Communication Studies 在顺性别异性恋社会规范下，时间的感知与再生产冲动密切相关——及时进入一对一的浪漫关系、及时步入婚姻、及时生育。然而这种线性时间（chrononormativity）和与其相关的里程碑往往和酷儿们的生命体验相悖。当机构并不认可酷儿们的身份认同或亲密关系模式时，当他们得不到家庭保障和领养权时，他们当然也就无法与线性时间靠近；当酷儿们走进自己的社群，或在舞池中被环绕，看见有关自己的真实正在不停生长和绽放，他们也便选择主动离开线性时间；而当艾滋污名和恐慌的阴霾笼罩在自己朋友爱人的头顶时，又如何能够焦虑明天呢？当下性（nowness）对酷儿们因此更加珍贵。 游戏总能用特殊的方式阐释时间，或者说，游戏本身就是一种或多种替代性时间。暂停、重置、时限、回溯、平行时空……在一次文本游戏的制作过程中，我发现，游戏对时间的应用也有着多样化地表现酷儿生命体验的潜力。在那里，“失败”是我们必然的经历，明知必然会失败仍不断尝试是我们对世界和爱的无尽探索。在那里，世界末日即将来临，我们仍在漫无目的地游荡。——Joey Materials Mentioned Game: Queers in Love at the End of the World (2013) by Anna Anthropy Life is strange (奇异人生, 2015) Film: I Saw the TV Glow (2024) by Jane Schoenbrun Literature: Anthropy, A. (2012). Rise of the videogame zinesters : how freaks, normals, amateurs, artists, dreamers, dropouts, queers, housewives, and people like you are taking back an art form (1st ed.). New York: Seven Stories Press. Chang, E. Y. (2017). Queergaming. In Ruberg, B. and Shaw, A. (Eds.), Queer Game Studies. pp. 15–24. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. Freeman, E. (2010). Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories. Duke University Press. Halberstam, J. (2005). In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives. NYU Press. Hanson, C. (2018). Game Time: Understanding Temporality in Video Games. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. Irvine, R.D., McPhee, J., Morgan, B., Tate, A., Davis, R., Enns, A., Evans, J., Hazelhurst, E.T., Joy, B.T., Keck, S. and Mercier, S. (2024). Digressions in Deep Time: Ecocritical Approaches to Literature and the Arts. Rowman & Littlefield. Knutson, M. (2018). Backtrack, pause, rewind, reset: Queering chrononormativity in gaming. Game Studies, 18(3), 1-15. Nitsche, M. (2007) Mapping Time in Video Games. Proceedings of DiGRA2007: Situated Play. Tokyo: U of Tokyo, pp. 145-151. Ruberg, B. (2017). Permalife: Video games and the queerness of living. Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, 9(2), 159–173. https://doi.org/10.1386/jgvw.9.2.159_1 (https://doi.org/10.1386/jgvw.9.2.159_1)

8. 

   16 Jan 2025

   Échos des Années 1920 : Le Nationalisme, la Nation et la Modernisation 1920s的回声：国家主义、民族与现代化

   Introduction la nationalisme 国家主义 Mouvement politique d'individus qui prennent conscience de former une communauté nationale en raison des liens (langue, culture) qui les unissent et qui peuvent vouloir se doter d'un État souverain. Le nationalisme a incité les peuples à former des États souverains ou à revendiquer leur indépendance. Larousse Dictionary. - Larousse Dictionary 个人的政治运动，他们意识到由于团结他们的纽带（语言、文化）而形成了一个民族社区，他们可能希望拥有一个主权国家。民族主义鼓励人们建立主权国家或要求独立。- Larousse Dictionary Narrative is not only a form of power but also a crucial practice of state sovereignty. In contemporary China's dominant master narrative, reflections on the early 20th century and modernisation often place 'national humiliation' and 'anti-imperialism & anti-colonialism' at the core of nationalism. However, the nationalism that prevailed in the 1920s—represented by the Young China Party/Chinese Youth Party’s political theory—offered a sociological response to the nationalisms of Europe and Japan, Liang Qichao’s nationalism, and the late Qing dynasty’s ethnic nationalism. By revisiting significant social events and conditions of the early 1920s (the Paris Peace Conference, imperial powers' condominium of China, and the Work-Study Movement in France), we attempt to explore how young people of that time reflected on the disengagement and reintegration of politics. In doing so, we seek to draw upon certain theoretical insights beyond the mainstream CCP-KMT narrative to create, reflect upon, or challenge the established discourses, which allows us to search for a the hidden 'third party'. 叙事不仅是一种权力，更是国家主权实践的重要方式。当代中国的主导性叙事在回顾二十世纪早期及现代化议题时，常将“国耻”与“反帝反殖”置于民族主义核心。然而，1920年代盛行的国家主义——以中国青年党为代表的政党理论——则从社会学视角回应了欧洲与日本的国家主义、梁启超的国家主义以及晚清的民族主义。我们希望通过回望1920s初的重要社会事件、社会状况（如巴黎和会、列强共管、勤工俭学等等），探讨彼时青年人对文化与政治剥离及再融合的反思。借此，在主流叙事之外，汲取些许理论，以创造、反思或者对抗某些固有叙事。进而在主流的二元对立的体系外，寻找所谓的“第三方力量”。 Host Hannah, Communication Studies William, School of English References 陳正茂 (Ed.). (1993). 中國青年黨史料叢刊第一輯 醒獅週報. 國史館印行. 方庆秋 (Ed.). (1988). 中国青年党. 档案出版社. 李璜. (1934). 国家存在论 . 上海中國書局. 李璜. (1979). 學鈍室回憶錄. 明報月刊社. 少年中國學會. (1925). 國家主義論文集. 上海中華書局. 左舜生. (1954). 萬竹樓隨筆. 自由出版社. BGM 春光曲 - 白光 魂牵旧梦 - 白光

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   15 Jan 2025

   Contemporary? British? Fiction? 当代英国小说

   In Introduction to 21st Century Fiction, Peter Boxall discusses three preoccupations of contemporary fiction: first, temporality, encompassing the speeded, slowed, stalled, or fragmented time, as well as a fascination with fleeting moments; second, ‘the real,’ referring to the emergence of new forms of realism and mechanisms for capturing the new reality, with these forms themselves becoming the material substrate of our existence; and third, embodiment. One consequence of the suspension of temporality and the real in ‘our time’ is a sense of estrangement in how we experience our own bodies, with the boundaries of the body, its materiality, and its relationship to forms undergoing fundamental changes. In this episode, William and Raven discuss contemporary British fiction, inspired by a module we did together of the same name. By the end of the module, we realised that the three words in its title aligned with these three preoccupations: temporality refers to the contemporary, ‘the real’ addresses the nature of fiction, and Britishness is something embodied by individuals living in ‘our time’, within or outside of Britian. From the Irish civil unrest, Caribbean migration, and the Battle of Culloden, to espionage activities across the Europe and the UK-US transatlantic alliances, our focus shifts from defining Britishness to examining what is subtly excluded from it or selectively incorporated into it. The module begins with Rachel Cusk’s London-centric perspective and gradually moves toward the edges of Britishness, challenging and rethinking its boundaries. Peter Boxall在Introduction to 21st Century Fiction中论述了当代小说的三个关注点。一是时间性，时间的加速、减速、停滞、失衡，和对流逝瞬间的迷恋。二是“真实”（the real），或者说，一种新的现实主义的生成，一套捕捉“真实”的形式机制，这种形式本身成为我们存在的物质基础。其三是具身性。时间性和真实被悬置在“我们的时间”中造成的后果之一是我们在体验自己身体的方式上产生了某种疏离；身体的界限、其物质性和身体与形式的关系正在发生根本变化。在这期节目中，William和Raven讨论了当代英国小说。这来源于我们共同参与的一门同名课程，而直到课程结束我们才意识到，在这门课名字中的三个单词中，时间性是对当代的指涉、真实是对小说本质的回应，而英国性则是由生活在“我们的时间”中的人具身感受的（无论是否身在英国）。从爱尔兰内战、加勒比移民、卡洛登战役，到间谍活动、跨大西洋联盟，重要的不是什么是英国性，而是哪些领域以微妙的方式被排除出了英国性，哪些又被选择性地收编了。这门课从Rachel Cusk这样非常伦敦中心的视角开始，逐渐走向英国性的边界、挑战它的边界、重思它的边界。 Host William, School of English Guest Raven, School of English Materials Mentioned Cusk, Rachel, Outline: A Novel (London: Faber & Faber, 2018) Closure: Contemporary Black British Stories, ed. by Jacob Ross (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2015) Kelman, James, You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free (London: Penguin, 2005) Jacques, Juliet, Variations (London: Influx Press, 2021) Burns, Anna, Milkman (London: Faber & Faber, 2018) McEwan, Ian, Sweet Tooth (London: Vintage Books, 2013) Oyeyemi, Helen, What is Not Yours is Not Yours (London: Picador, 2017) Smith, Ali, Spring (London: Penguin, 2019) Kunzru, Hari, Red Pill: A Novel (New York: Vintage Books, 2020) BGM Danny Boy - Bill Evans

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    15 Sept 2024

    2024 Conferences Review 二零二四会议见闻录

    We reviewed the conferences we attended in 2024, vibe-checked, and wished everyone the best of luck. 我们回顾了2024年参加过的会议。 They were not good, they were not bad, they just happened Host William, School of English Hannah, Communication Studies BGM 九月鹰飞-田汨

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    6 Jun 2024

    No Comment, or the Necessity of Violence 无可奉告，或暴力之必要性

    Hosts William, School of English Hannah, Communication Studies ...Systematic inequalities that are ultimately backed up by the threat of force can be seen as a form of violence in themselves. Systems of structural violence invariably seem to produce extreme lopsided structures of imaginative identification. - David Graeber, 2007, Revolution in Reverse (or, on the conflict between political ontologies of violence and political ontologies of the imagination) For China is so unaccustomed to popular government and has so long been subject to personal rule that it would be useless to expect that the country could at one bound successfully advance to the stage of representative and popular government […] A serious attempt should be made, however, at once to offer to the classes of the people which are conscious of common interests and have intelligent aspirations the opportunity to participate more widely and influentially in the government of the country than they have up to the present time enjoyed. Otherwise the country will continue to be under the blight of absolutism and, so long as it does not have the security which comes from the determination of the question of succession by inheritance in a particular family, will possess probably the worst form of government which has yet been devised-namely a military dictatorship. - Frank Goodnow, 1915, Reform in China In the spring of 2024, as I walked through the students and staff rallying and protesting for the liberation of Palestine in the plaza in the middle of campus, my friends and I were also paying a huge cost in time and energy for an activism. About a month later, this activism of ours against sexism ended in silence and threats of symbolic violence, and did not reach the demands we wanted, even an apology. All the while, as the Israeli-Palestinian war escalated, student protests around the world were repressed, with university management attempting to deploy armed police on campus and even taking students to court. In this episode, William and Hannah look back at the silence and symbolic violence we experienced in the movements of spring 2024. These issues are not new, but are universal dilemmas that we have been always facing. They make us reflect on what the power of language really means, how symbolic violence is produced and circumscribes our everyday lives, and why, no matter how strategically language is chosen, the power of language is distorted and powerless in the face of institutional power underpinned by violence. Materials Mentioned William's Debord, G., & Jenkins, Martin. (2012). Society of the spectacle. 2nd ed. Eastbourne: Soul Bay Press. Graeber, D. (2011). Revolution in reverse. London: Minor Compositions. Ito, S. (2021). Black box: The memoir that sparked Japan’s# Metoo movement. New York: Feminist Press at CUNY. Solnit, R. (2014). Men explain things to me. Chicago: Haymarket Books. Williams, R. (1977). Marxism and literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hannah's Frank, T. (1997). A Cultural Perpetual Motion Machine: Management Theory and Consumer Revolution in the 1960s. In: The Conquest of Cool Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. University Of Chicago Press, pp.1–33. Goodnow, F.J. (1915). Reform in China. American Political Science Review, 9(2), pp.209–224. doi:https://doi.org/10.2307/1944611 (https://doi.org/10.2307/1944611). Kabakov, I. (2018). Art Has No Unloved Children. In: On Art. Chicago ; London: The University Of Chicago Press, pp.218–225. Kang, J. (2017). Contemporary Korean Political Thought and Park Chung-hee. Rowman & Littlefield. Li, H. (1973). 學鈍室回憶錄 (Xuedunsi huiyi lu; Memoirs of the Xuedun Study). Zhuanji Wenxue (Biographical Literature). Roszak, T. (1995). The Making of a Counter Culture : Reflections on the Technocratics Society and Its Youthful Opposition : [with a New introduction]. Berkeley: University of California Press. BGM 風は吹いている-AKB48

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    28 May 2024

    Foregrounding, Text-worlds, and Others 前景化、文本世界及其它

    Host William, School of English Guest Fan, School of English In this episode, William and Fan discussed foregrounding, text-world theory, and other issues concerning stylistics, including the controversies it faces as an academic institution. Materials Mentioned Cureton, R.D. (1979). E.E. Cummings: A Study of the Poetic Use of Deviant Morphology. Poetics Today, 1(1/2), 213-224. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1772048 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/1772048) Gavins, J. (2007) Text World Theory : An Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Harrison, C. et al. (2014) Cognitive Grammar in Literature. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Jakobson, R (1960). Closing statement: linguistics and poetics. In Sebeok, T. A (ed) Style in Language (pp.350-377). Cambridge: The MIT Press. Leech, G. N. (1969). A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry. Harlow: Longman Group Ltd. Simpson, P. (2014) Stylistics : a resource book for students. 2nd edn. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Stockwell, P. (2019) Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction. 2nd edn. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Van Peer, W., Zyngier, S., & Hakemulder, J. (2007). Foregrounding: Past, Present, Future. In Stylistics. Leiden: Brill. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401205313_002 (https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401205313_002) Werth, P. (1999) Text worlds : Representing conceptual space in discourse. Harlow: Longman. BGM 幻海同游-银临

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    3 Feb 2024

    A Café of Our Own 广场之外

    Hosts William, School of English Hannah, Communication Studies Guest Joey, Communication Studies KEYWORDS 女性与多元群体艺术空间，国内外queer空间观察，读书会 INTRO 传统的和改良型的马克思主义观点都认为，1871年的巴黎公社是1848年法兰西内战以来阶级斗争的继续（如Castells 1983; Harvey 1985）。但是顾尔德认为，工人阶级意识的确在1848年法兰西内战的动员中起有很大作用，但是到了1871年时，巴黎群众的动员基础已不是阶级意识，而是社区意识。他把此现象归因于巴黎在1852-1870年进⾏的大规模城市改造活动（该城市改造计划由郝思曼（Haussmann）主持，因此又通常被称为郝思曼计划）。郝思曼的城市改造计划有很多目的，其中之一就是因为老巴黎贫民窟多，街道细⼩弯曲，这种地形给法国军队在镇压经常发⽣的城市暴动时带来了不便。在研究中顾尔德发觉，郝思曼计划导致大量的市民移居，打乱了原有的城市住宅布局，促进了巴黎市民认同感的变化。这就是为什么在法兰西内战时，动员巴黎市民起来⽃争的基础是阶级意识，⽽到巴黎公社时，动员巴黎市民起来参加斗争的基础成了新的社区意识。这里，顾尔德的研究涉及以前社会运动专家不曾深入涉及的一个问题：人群的空间分布、居住及其活动形式，以及⼈对某一空间赋予的意义，在社会网络形成和社会运动动员中的作用。 空间的赋予性意义和社会行动的关系本身......是⼀个十分重要的课题。 ——赵鼎新 《社会与政治运动讲义》，社会科学与文献出版社，2012 BGM Forbbiden Color - David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1983, recomposed by Rin 忘记他是她 - Tat Ming Pair

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    25 Dec 2023

    Issues, Problems, and Doctrines 多谈谈问题，多吃手抓饼

    Hosts Hannah, Communication Studies William, School of English Guest Joey, Communication Studies 本期由于我们焦虑大爆发所以不写按语了。 BGM 万千花蕊慈母悲哀-珂拉琪 Materials Mentioned William's Szonyi, M. (2018). The art of being governed: Everyday politics in late imperial China. Princeton University Press. Zhou, X. (2022). The Logic of Governance in China: an organizational approach. Cambridge University Press. 秦晖. (1999). 问题与主义: 秦晖文选. 长春出版社. 秦晖. (1998). “大共同体本位” 与传统中国社会 (上). 社会学研究, 5, 12-21. 秦晖. (2002). “第三条道路”, 还是共同的底线?——读吉登斯《 第三条道路》. 社会科学论坛, (6), 4-11. Benjamin, W. (2019). The Storyteller Essays. ⁠New York Review of Books⁠ (https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Storyteller_Essays.html?id=89dhDwAAQBAJ). Lakoff, G. (2010). Moral politics: How liberals and conservatives think. University of Chicago Press. Hannah’s Highmore, B. (2002). BENJAMIN’S TRASH AESTHETICS. In Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction. Routledge. Hu, S. (1919). 多研究些问题，少谈些“主义.” 每周评论, 31. Parris, K. (1993). Local Initiative and National Reform: The Wenzhou Model of Development. The China Quarterly, 134, 242–263. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000029672 (https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000029672) 秦晖. (1999). 问题与主义：秦晖文选. 长春出版社. 秦晖. (2016). 走出帝制：从晚清到民国的历史回望. 群言出版社. Xiaotong Fei. (2010). Peasant life in china : a field study of country life in the yangtze valley. Foreign Languages Press. 谢湜. (2020). 山海故人. 北京师范大学出版社 . Zhou, X. (2022). The Logic of Governance in China. Cambridge University Press. Zhou, X., Liu, S., & Zhe, X. (2012). 国家建设与政府行为 = State building and government behavior. Zhongguo She Hui Ke Xue Chu Ban She.

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    11 Oct 2023

    In Defence of Left-wing Intellectual Life Part 2 “中产阶级”、知识民主化与小粉红入侵

    Hosts Hannah, Communication Studies William, School of English Guest 波子, Communication Studies 本期出现了很多残酷二选一界的天问。 Highlights 如何应对文化传统在开放社会的庸俗化、片面化？低门槛会带来庸俗化的风险吗？大众的文化传承是否是一个伪命题？究竟要怎样看待知识民主化？ 消费资本主义对于进步主义文化来说意味着什么？ 中产阶级在中国指代的是哪一群人？他们产生过一种中产阶级文化吗？这个词语对应着某种历史责任吗？ Is the debasement of cultural traditions a problem? Is cultural heritage of the masses a false proposition? How to evaluate the democratisation of knowledge? How can consumer capitalism impact progressivist culture? What group of people does 'middle class' refer to in China? Have they produced a middle-class culture? Does the term correspond to some kind of historical responsibility? BGM Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford. (2020). BAME Medea (Oxford University BAME Drama Society). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SsIHyRwGt8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SsIHyRwGt8) Materials Mentioned William's Fukuyama, F. (2006). The end of history and the last man. Simon and Schuster. Barton, D., Chen, Y., & Jin, A. (2013). Mapping China’s middle class. McKinsey Quarterly, 3(2013), 54-60. Chen, J., & Lu, C. (2011). Democratization and the middle class in China: The middle class’s attitudes toward democracy. Political Research Quarterly, 64(3), 705-719. Goodman, D. S. (2016). Locating China’s Middle Classes: social intermediaries and the Party-state. Journal of Contemporary China, 25(97), 1-13. Hannah's Liao, Y. (2001). The Corpse Walker: China From The Bottom Up[中国底层访谈录]. Changjiang literature & art publishing house[长江文艺出版社]. Lin, J.-P., & Yi, C.-C. (2013). A comparative analysis of intergenerational relations in East Asia. International Sociology, 28(3), 297–315. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580913485261 (https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580913485261) Stein, L., & Busse, K. (2009). Limit Play: Fan Authorship between Source Text, Intertext, and Context. Popular Communication, 7(4), 192–207. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405700903177545 (https://doi.org/10.1080/15405700903177545) Stephen, D., & Minglu Chen. (2013). Middle class China: identity and behaviour. Edward Elgar. Yan, Y. (2017). The Rise of Neo-Familism in Contemporary China [Video/moving image]. In East Asia Program, Cornell University. https://hdl.handle.net/1813/69507 (https://hdl.handle.net/1813/69507). (n.d.).

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    9 Oct 2023

    In Defence of Left-wing Intellectual Life Part 1 为左翼智识生活一辩（失败了）

    本期播客是一次策划已久的残酷二选一, i.e., 一期闲聊。 Hosts Hannah, Communication Studies William, School of English Guest 波子, Communication Studies Highlights 什么是反男性凝视？什么是女性凝视？在一个不平等的权力结构中局部倒转权力关系但沿用相同的暴力手段可以被允许吗？ 恶法非法、公民抗命如何正当？非暴力/和平主义是一种结果还是一种目标？ 教师如何反抗新自由主义化的高等教育？ Anti-male gaze? Female gaze?In what contexts and situations, civil disobedience is a form of justice? Is non-violence/pacifism a means or an end? How can university staff resist neoliberalised higher education? BGM 风之城一乐章（弦乐四重奏）-乐正子大人 Materials Mentioned William's Von Jhering, R. (1915). The struggle for law. Callaghan. Liminal Negative Space. (2023, July 12). Retrieved from https://liminalnegativespace.github.io/blog/posts/pickOne/ Euripides. (1992). Medea. De Gruyter. Cairns, D. (2014). Medea: Feminism or misogyny?. In Looking at Medea: Essays and a Translation of Euripides’ Tragedy (pp. 123-138). Bloomsbury Academic. Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford. (2020). BAME Medea (Oxford University BAME Drama Society). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SsIHyRwGt8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SsIHyRwGt8) Hannah's 최승호 (Choi S. (Director). (2017).  공범자들 (Criminal Conspiracy). Korea Center for Investigative Journalism. 조현탁 (Jo Hyun Tak). (2018). SKY 캐슬 (Sky Castle). HB Entertainment Drama House. Martin, B. (2012). Backfire Manual : Tactics Against Injustice. Irene Publishing. True Story Award. (n.d.). True Story Award. Retrieved October 9, 2023, from https://truestoryaward.org/ (https://truestoryaward.org/) 袁鹰. (2006). 风云侧记. 中国档案出版社.

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    19 Aug 2023

    Decentralisation: An Incomplete Ambition 去中心化：未竟的雄心

    “If we can wander, without fear, not only in the streets of Paris, which bristle with police, but especially in rustic walks where you rarely meet passersby, is it to the police that we owe this security? Or rather to the absence of people who care to rob or murder us?” ― Pyotr Kropotkin, Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal “当我们不仅可以在警察林立的巴黎街道上，还可以在少见路人的乡村步道上毫不恐惧地漫步的时候，我们的安全归功于警察吗？还是说，是因为没有人想要抢劫或谋杀我们？” —— 彼得·克鲁泡特金， 《无政府主义：它的哲学和理想》 From the very beginning of the idea of abolishing centralised institutions of governance and their monopoly of violence, decentralisation has entered public discourse not only as a technical term, but also as a highly politicised ideal. In this episode, we are going to talk about: In the contemporary world of technologies and applications that appear to be associated with decentralisation, is decentralisation merely a rhetorical strategy? Are substitutes for centralisation responsible for the human being? Do decentralised technologies need to call upon centralised resources to sustain themselves? Can a virtuous vision of freedom and equality at technological level lead to good results? 在取消集中化的宰制机构和其暴力支持这一思想诞生之初，去中心化就不仅仅作为一个技术术语，而且作为一种高度政治化的理想进入公共讨论。但是，在那些看似与去中心化相关的技术和应用中，作为一种话语展演的去中心化究竟是否仅仅是一种修辞策略？代替中心化之物是否是负责任的、可存续的？去中心化的技术是否需要调用中心化的资源来维系？技术层面上自由、平等的良善愿景一定能带来好的结果吗？Hannah在本期节目中从她的mastodon使用经验分享开始，试图碰触这些缠绕的问题。 BGM Freedom - Anthony Hamilton/Elayna Boynton Materials Mentioned Hannah's Baran, P. (1964). On Distributed Communications Networks. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 12(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcom.1964.1088883 Benjamin, W. (1935). The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Penguin Books. Blanke, T., & Pybus, J. (2020). The Material Conditions of Platforms: Monopolization Through Decentralization. Social Media + Society, 6(4), 205630512097163. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120971632 Mastodon. (n.d.). Mastodon documentation. Docs.joinmastodon.org. Retrieved June 7, 2023, from https://docs.joinmastodon.org Rochko, E. (2017, February 20). The power to build communities. Mastodon Blog. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2017/02/the-power-to-build-communities/ Schneider, N. (2019). Decentralization: an incomplete ambition. Journal of Cultural Economy, 12(4), 265–285. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2019.1589553 Schrape, J.-F. (2019). The Promise of Technological Decentralization. A Brief Reconstruction. Society, 56(1), 31–37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-018-00321-w William's Bao, G. (2015). The common sense of modern politics [政治学通识]. Peking University Press. CrimethInc. (2022). The city in the forest: Reinventing resistance for an age of climate crisis and police militarization. Retrieved from https://crimethinc.com/2022/04/11/the-city-in-the-forest-reinventing-resistance-for-an-age-of-ecological-collapse-and-police-militarization The Initium Media. (2023). The art of resilience: Inspiration from Atlanta's abolish the cop city movement. [韌性的藝術：亞特蘭大「廢除警察城」運動的啓示]. Retrieved from https://theinitium.com/article/20230717-international-cop-city

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    12 Jul 2023

    Intro to Critical Discourse Analysis 浅聊批评性话语分析

    This episode is comprised of an introduction to the theories of critical discourse analysis and an interesting article sharing session. Starting with two turns in Fairclough's approaches to critical discourse analysis, William and Fan attempt to draw the critical analysis of discourse into deep, broad and complex critical analysis of the society in specific journal articles. We find that it is the macro, fluid and inclusive nature of critical discourse analysis that makes it such a vital and interdisciplinary critical theory that engages with reality directly. 这期节目分为批评性话语分析理论简介和趣味论文分享两个部分。William和Fan从Fairclough的批评性话语分析路径的两次转折开始聊起，在一篇篇具体的文章中尝试将对话语的批判分析引向更深广而复杂的对社会的批判分析。我们发现，正是批评性话语分析宏观、流动而包容的特质让它成为一个如此具有生命力、如此直接地介入现实的跨学科批判理论。 BGM The Presses Roll - John Williams Just Look Up - Ariana Grande/Kid Cudi Materials Mentioned William’s Chen, W. (2020). The “marked” nation: National identity and family-country imagination in the discourse of overseas evacuation in China [被“标识”的国家：撤侨话语中的国家认同与家国想象]. Chinese Journal of Journalism and Communication, 42(1), 136-153. Flowerdew, J., & Richardson, J. E. (Eds.). (2017). The Routledge handbook of critical discourse studies. Taylor & Francis. Huang, Q. (2023). The discursive construction of populist and misogynist nationalism: Digital vigilantism against unpatriotic intellectual women in China. Social Media+ Society, 9(2). Jones, R. H. (2012). Discourse analysis. Routledge. Peng, A. Y. (2021). Neoliberal feminism, gender relations, and a feminized male ideal in China: A critical discourse analysis of Mimeng’s WeChat posts. Feminist Media Studies, 21(1), 115-131. Peng, A. Y., Kuang, X., & Hou, J. (2022). Love NBA, hate BLM: Racism in China’s sports fandom. International Journal of Communication, 16, 3133-3153. Sirulhaq, A., Yuwono, U., & Muta’ali, A. (2023). Why do we need a sociocognitive-CDA in hate speech studies? A corpus-based systematic review. Discourse & Society, 09579265221126599. Wang, C. Y., & Chen, Z. (2023). From ‘motherland’ to ‘daddy state’: A genealogical analysis of the gender undertone in China's nationalist discourses. Nations and Nationalism, 29(2), 751-767. Yin, J. (2007). The clash of rights: A critical analysis of news discourse on human rights in the United States and China. Critical Discourse Studies, 4(1), 75-94. Zhang, C. (2017). The curious rise of the ‘white left’ as a Chinese internet insult. Open Democracy, 11, 88-115. Zhang, C. (2020). Right-wing populism with Chinese characteristics? Identity, otherness and global imaginaries in debating world politics online. European journal of international relations, 26(1), 88-115. Fan's Baker, P., & McEnery, T. (2005). A corpus-based approach to discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in UN and newspaper texts. Journal of Language and Politics, 4(2), 197-226. Bates, D. (2023). 'The jobs all go to foreigners': A critical discourse analysis of the Labour Party's 'left-wing' case for immigration controls. Critical Discourse Studies, 20(2), 183-199. Chen, Y., & Gong, Q. (2023). Unpacking ‘baby man’ in Chinese social media: a feminist critical discourse analysis. Critical Discourse Studies, 1-18. Hart, C. (2010). Critical discourse analysis and cognitive science: New perspectives on immigration discourse. Palgrave Macmillan UK. KhosraviNik, M. (2010). The representation of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in British newspapers. Journal of Language and Politics, 9(1), 1-28. Peng, A. Y., Wu, C., & Chen, M. (2022). Sportswomen under the Chinese male gaze: A feminist critical discourse analysis. Critical Discourse Studies, 1-18. Reisigl, M., & Wodak, R. (2000). Discourse and discrimination: Rhetorics of racism and antisemitism. Taylor & Francis Group.

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    27 Jun 2023

    East Asian Chaos 东亚大乱炖

    What is "East Asia"? What is Northeast Asia, Asia, the Orient, the Far East, World literatures of Chinese, Sinophone, and the Sinitic Sphere respectively? Which forces have used these concepts? If East Asia is a vague and diverse geographical designation, where is it? How did it come into being? How does it interact with today's reality as a concept that has been seized by various ideologies? “东亚”是什么？东北亚、亚洲、东洋、南洋、远东、世华文学、华语语系、汉字文化圈又是什么？如果东亚是一个模糊而多样的地理指称，它究竟占据何处？它是如何形成的？哪些势力使用过这些概念？作为一个被各种意识形态抢占和充塞的概念，它又如何与今天的现实产生互动？ From our own experience and perspective in China, which is inextricably linked to East Asia, we attempt to unfold a pluralistic East Asia. 身处与东亚密不可分的中国，我们将从自身的经历与视角出发，聊一聊“东亚”这个各种问题的集合体。 Structure 东亚概念与中国自身定位问题 中国对于东亚概念的构建 南洋（东南亚）作为一种殖民概念 俄罗斯的缺位（东北亚问题） 东亚概念的延伸 东亚与中日韩互动 现今东亚概念在政治经济层面的展开 东亚性与例外状态 BGM 错译噤 (The Mistranslated Silence) - Howie Lee 'Veritas Potest Non Vitiari' (Truth cannot be distorted) - The Fourth Republic Mentioned Materials William’s Du, G. (2015).  Taiwan literature and world literatures of Chinese [臺灣文學與世華文學]. National Taiwan University Publishing Center. Keevak, M. (2011). Becoming yellow: A short history of racial thinking. Princeton University Press. Kong, Y. (2022). The Return of Eurasianism and the Global Revolution: Alexander Dugin's Geopolitics [欧亚主义回归与全球革命：亚历山大 · 杜金的地缘政治]. Kuhn, P. A. (1990). Soulstealers: The Chinese sorcery scare of 1768. Harvard University Press. Lande, J. B., & Feeney, D. (Eds.). (2021). How literatures begin: A global history. Princeton University Press. Mueller, C., & Salonia, M. (Eds.). (2022). Travel writings on Asia: Curiosity, identities, and knowledge across the East, c. 1200 to the present. Springer Nature. Shih, S. M. (2007). Visuality and identity: Sinophone articulations across the Pacific (Vol. 2). Univ of California Press. Sun, G. & Liu, Z. (2016). Searching for China in history: A dialogue on epistemology in the study of Regional History [在历史中寻找中国：关于区域史研究认识论的对话]. Orient Publishing Center. Sun, G. (2007). Japan and China in the history of thought [思想史中的日本与中国]. Shanghai Jiaotong University Press. Sun, G. (2011). Why should we talk about East Asia: Politics and history in context [我们为什么要谈东亚：状况中的政治与历史]. Shanghai Joint Publishing. Sun, G. (2019). Finding Asia: Creating alternative ways of seeing the world [寻找亚洲：创造另一种认识世界的方式]. Guizhou People Publishing House. Sun, G. (2020). Encountering Others: Intercultural dilemmas and hopes [遭遇他者：跨文化的困境与希望]. Beijing United Publishing. Sun, G. (2020). From Naha to Shanghai: Living on the edge [从那霸到上海：在临界状态中生活]. Beijing United Publishing. Zhou, X. (2022). The logic of governance in China: An organizational approach. Cambridge University Press. Hannah’s Batairwa Kubuya, P. (2018). Meaning and Controversy within Chinese Ancestor Religion. Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan. Bobo Lo. (2015). Russia and the new world disorder. Chatham House; Washington, D.C. Chen, M., & Jing, X. (2003). Zhejiang’s Foreign Trade and Social Changes in Modern History [近代浙江对外贸易及社会变迁]. Ningbo Publishing House. Choi, J. (1995). The 4th Republic. MBC Production. Fairbank, J., Reischauer, E., & Craig, A. (1989). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (2nd ed.). Wadsworth Publishing Company. Li, C. Fu. (1926). A Brief History of Chinese Colonization in Nanyang [中國殖民南洋小史]. The Eastern Miscellany, 23(5). On Yellow Peril [論黃禍]. (1904). The Eastern Miscellany, 1(2). Surkov, V. (2008). Russian Political Culture: The View from Utopia. Russian Social Science Review, 49(6), 81–97. ⁠https://doi.org/10.1080/10611428.2008.11065310⁠ Surkov, V. (2018). The loneliness of the half-breed [Одиночество полукровки]. Russia in Global Affairs, 28. Yan, Y. (2017). The Rise of Neo-Familism in Contemporary China. Cornell Contemporary China Initiative Lecture Series. Zhang, X., Liu, Q., & Wan, Y. (2013). Discussion of the idea of an “East Asian Community” in the early 20th century [试论20世纪初叶的“东亚共同体”构想]. Journal of Dalian Modern History

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