Descripción del proyecto
Análisis del papel del cómic en la República Popular China
La cultura del cómic en la República Popular China se alineó con los esquemas nacionales, económicos y políticos del Partido Comunista Chino (PCC). Esta cultura, conocida como «lianhuanhua», literalmente «imágenes enlazadas», está poco estudiada. Teniendo esto en cuenta, el proyecto ChinaComx, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, estudiará la cultura del cómic en China, analizando su producción, distribución y contribución al proyecto de construcción nacional, abarcando los desarrollos acontecidos desde finales de los años cuarenta del siglo pasado. En el proyecto también se pretende investigar cómo los cómics han tenido una gran importancia en la creación de un nuevo hombre socialista y han contribuido a la legitimidad ininterrumpida del PCC. Su equipo estudiará cómo la propaganda afecta a los ciudadanos a través de adaptaciones literarias y cinematográficas, analizando las relaciones texto-imagen, las cualidades narrativas y el lenguaje visual influenciado por el arte tradicional chino.
Objetivo
Comics Culture in the People’s Republic of China (ChinaComx) sets out to investigate the intellectual, political, social, historical, and transcultural dimensions of a medium still heavily understudied: lianhuanhua, literally “linked images.” It studies them as a medium from the People’s Republic of China and its place within the larger Chinese and global comics culture. Studying the conditions of comic art’s production, distribution and consumption, the project sheds light on how comics contribute to the project of nation building, to the creation of a new socialist man and to the continued legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In addition, it investigates how these at times highly propagandistic texts were read by ordinary citizens. In clearly circumscribed case studies, the project analyzes large amounts of literary and filmic adaptations, the conventions of text-image relations (and the breaking of these conventions), narrative qualities, as well as the visual language which is very much indebted to other visual forms of art, including traditional Chinese visual art, cartoons, propaganda posters, photography and movies. With its focus on practices and meaning making, ChinaComx moreover delves into the changing global cultural, political and economic connections within the socialist cultural sphere, within the Greater China region, East Asia and beyond, tracing distinct and changing relationships of domestic and foreign elements. The case studies cover developments since the late 1940s to the present and situate concrete phenomena within larger developments and traditions. In providing more knowledge about comic culture from China and in contributing to theoretical debates, ChinaComx aims to delineate the term „lianhuanhua“ as a distinct genre and area of academic research that bears specific characteristics, being embedded in a particular context of origin, yet, changing across time and space as Japanese manga or Franco-Belgian bandes desinnées.
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- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
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