Digital Immersive Art in China: Rejuvenation and Cultural Presence

Author:   Xinyang Zhao
Publisher:   Anthem Press
Volume:   1
ISBN:  

9781839993039


Pages:   186
Publication Date:   08 October 2024
Format:   Hardback
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China has been stereotypically perceived as a place of backwardness. However, the 21st century has been a transitional period for China to express its cultural power. This book explores how digital technology, in particular virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), is playing a role in China's rejuvenation, especially in relation to cultural displays, performances and art exhibitions. It examines how audiences, both in China and globally, respond to Digital China through digital immersive art. Drawing on the author's anthropological research and empirical studies on stakeholders and audience reception, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of transformative power of digital technology and its impact on cultural experience in contemporary China. The 'reform of the cultural system' over the past two decades in China has fostered a techno-cultural imaginary mixed with the celebration of Chinese civilisation and advanced by digital technology and entrepreneurs. Such a hybrid imaginary influences how people view and consume digital immersive art. Much digital immersive art within China is thus viewed within the framework of modernisation, as the case studies in this book will show. Outside China, however, the dominant narrative of techno-orientalism prevails, constructing a different image of Digital China, a technocratic state.

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Author:   Xinyang Zhao
Publisher:   Anthem Press
Imprint:   Anthem Press
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781839993039


ISBN 10:   1839993030
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   08 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available, will be POD   Availability explained
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“The book offers new perspectives on interpreting the phenomenon of the rise of technology and digital immersive art and related cultural and creative industries in China, and there is a possibility that the deployment of the new art form serves as an imaginary for the global cultural presence of China. It is an original and useful contribution to this topic.”—Desmond Hui, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. “A critical book that contributes to our understanding of the development of digital immersive arts in China in tandem with the nation’s cultural policy. Zhao argues that while emerging forms of immersive arts have become an extension of China’s global cultural presence and soft power, they also highlight the contradictions and tensions that arise as these arts increasingly serve state propaganda.” —Anthony Fung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 


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Xinyang Zhao earned his PhD in media, culture and creative arts from Curtin University. He currently works as a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Humanities, Tongji University in Shanghai.

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