Description du projet
Analyse du rôle de la bande dessinée en République populaire de Chine
La culture de la bande dessinée en République populaire de Chine s’est alignée sur les projets nationaux, économiques et politiques du Parti communiste chinois (PCC). Cette culture, connue sous le nom de lianhuanhua, littéralement «images liées», est peu étudiée. Dans cette optique, le projet ChinaComx, financé par le CER, étudiera la culture de la bande dessinée en Chine, en analysant sa production, sa distribution et sa contribution au projet de construction de la nation, en couvrant les développements depuis la fin des années 1940. Le projet vise également à étudier comment les bandes dessinées ont joué un rôle dans la création d’un nouvel homme socialiste et contribué à la légitimité continue du PCC. Il étudie la manière dont la propagande affecte les citoyens par le biais d’adaptations littéraires et cinématographiques, en analysant les relations texte-image, les qualités narratives et le langage visuel influencé par l’art traditionnel chinois.
Objectif
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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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitution d’accueil
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