Midterm Progress Reports

Please post your midterm progress report as a comment to this post. Please include the following in your report:
1. The working topic for your midterm paper (example: guilty pleasure vs. justified pleasure: two kinds of popular Chinese cinemas) 
2. Possible interview subjects and questions planned (example: plan to interview a mainland Chinese, a Hong Kongese, a Taiwanese, and an American; questions may include: ask them to name popular Chinese films, ask them to identify their sources of information, and ask them to talk about their understanding about the relationship among popularity, commercialism, and social commentary in the Chinese and American contexts.) 
3. Possible in-class readings you will read closely and draw inspiration from (example: pieces related to Stories for Saturday, Zhao Shuli, Guo Jingming, and Jiang Wen etc.--check syllabus for full bibliographical information).
4. Possible external academic sources (example: "Theatricality and Cultural Critique in Chinese Cinema"--to start, do keyword searches in JSTOR and Project Muse databases for full text academic articles from lib.uky.edu)
You are required to use in-class readings and highly encouraged to consult external academic sources for your midterm. Annotate your working bibliography to show your progress. Progress report due Thursday March 6 by 11:59 pm.  

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  2. 1. Use of narrative and comedy in film to express political and social criticisms
    2. Possible interview subjects: around 6 Mainland Chinese through email. Questions: What are some of your favorite Chinese movies? What do you believe those movies are trying to accomplish? What are some popular movies in China? What do you believe those movies are trying to accomplish? Have you seen Zhang Yimou’s movie To Live? What do you believe this film was trying to accomplish? What movies have you seen recently? Do you believe there are political and social critiques in the movies you have seen?
    3. Possible in class readings: Guo Jingming, Filming the Anti-Japanese War, The Marriage of Young Blacky
    4. Possible external sources: The Mysterious Other: Post politics in Chinese Film, Chinese Cinema: Culture and Politics since 1949, Indusrty and Ideology: A Centennial Review of Chinese Cinema.

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  3. Topic: From “Super Girls” to “I Am a Singer”

    1.I plan to analyze the diasporic phenomenon of the creation of Reality Television and Democratic Entertainment Commodity of popular Chinese shows such as “Super Girl” to the creation of “I Am A Singer” to modify an understanding of how these relatively new genre of shows have grown to be so popular not only in mainland China but other Asian countries such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other non-mainland Chinese countries. By analyzing the promotion strategies, the judges and comparing the success of these types of shows will show if this has been a large success because of its’ diasporic nature or if it is purely popular because of entertainment or maybe a mixture of both.

    2.Possible Interview Subjects:
    Chinese-American (Other Asian Cultures) - How has the introduction of shows such as “I Am a Singer” changed your views on how China and other Asian countries are changing socially in this Modern Day Era? Do you feel the political and social changes are having a positive impact on how various Asian audiences are falling in love with Reality TV shows such as “I Am a Singe”? Has living in America given you a different perspective on how you view the social change in other Asian countries? Why does this/does this not appeal to you?

    3.Possible Readings from Class:
    •Miaoju JIAN and Chang-de LIU, “‘Democratic Entertainment’ Commodity and Unpaid Labor of Reality TV: A Preliminary Analysis of China’s Supergirl,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol. 10, No. 4 (2009), 524-543.
    •Week 2: Understanding Popular Culture in Modern China
    •Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Diasporic Reading by Christina Klein
    •Bingchun Meng: “Who Needs Democracy If We Can Pick Our Favorite Girl? Super Girl as Media Spectacle,” Chinese Journal of Communication, Vol. 2, No. 3 (November 2009), 257-272.

    4.External Sources:
    News Articles: “Chinese talent show captivates Taiwanese viewers.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, “Reality the next big thing on TV screens” China Daily, April 30, 2013.
    Besides the inside class reading for this topic, I am having difficulty finding other Academic Articles because this is such a new phenomenon in China. There are plenty of articles and popular blogs that illustrate the reason why shows such as “I Am a Singer” have been so successful.

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  4. 1. The introduction of new technologies to the cyber sphere including how they affect the public and state spheres. How has the wave of new technologies affected both normal citizens and helped promote celebrities? How has the evolution of technology affected the use of cyber warfare on the state level? The Internet has had monumental changes on all levels throughout the country. Another interesting aspect of advanced technology could be a look into how these new lanes of advertisement and promotion have helped businesses and others in promotion and marketing.

    2. I plan to interview students who I know have dealt with the Internet in China and see how their experience was with it. I also want to talk to both a younger and older generation of Mainland Chinese to see different perspectives as to how it has made things better or worse and how.

    3. Bingchun Meng: “Who Needs Democracy If We Can Pick Our Favorite Girl? Super Girl as Media Spectacle,” Chinese Journal of Communication, Vol. 2, No. 3 (November 2009), 257-272.

    Yao Ming, Jeremy Lin, and the Chinese Craze over NBA
    Chih-ming Wang, “Capitalizing the Big Man: Yao Min, Asian America, and the China Global,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2004), 263-278.

    Yomi Braester, “Chinese Cinema in the Age of Advertisement: The Filmmaker as a Cultural Broker,” The China Quarterly, Vol. 183 (September 2005), 549-564.

    Shujen Wang, “Big Shot’s Funeral: China, Sony, and the WTO,” Asian Cinema, Fall/Winter 2003, 145-154.

    4. http://www.hoover.org/publications/china-leadership-monitor/article/158526
    http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/cyberwarfare/
    Articles such as these will give information on the cyber warfare from the state-to-state level.
    http://www.eolss.net/sample-chapters/c04/e6-33-03.pdf
    http://connection.ebscohost.com/technology/blogging/history-blogging-and-mass-communication
    These are a few articles that will accompany many others in looking at the use of social media and the Internet both short term and long term in regards to the public and promotional spheres.

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  5. Topic: Globalization and Consumerism: how the US has influenced each factor in Shanghai’s popular culture

    Interview subjects: American students, someone from China, and someone that has family from China, but was raised in the US

    Interview Questions:
    1. How do you think globalization has impacted Shanghai’s culture?
    2. How has consumerism changed Shanghai’s society?
    3. How has the US impacted globalization/consumerism in Shanghai and China?
    4. How have products from Shanghai, or China impacted your life?
    5. How do you think that the consumption of Chinese goods, and services would change your perception on things, if you no longer acquired them?
    6. How has globalization/consumerism from Shanghai, or China impacted the US?
    7. Do you think traditional Chinese folk tales have an influence in China's success today with having globalization, and consumerism in other countries?

    Internal Sources:
    1. Tu Wei-ming, “Cultural China: The Periphery as the Center," in The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today," edited by Tu Wei-ming, Stanford University Press, 1994, 1-34
    2. Timothy C. Wong “Stories for Saturday” University of Hawai’i Press, translated by Timothy C. Wong, 4-17 and 159-173
    3. Yaming Bao, “Shanghai Weekly: Globalization, Consumerism, and Shanghai Popular Culture,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol. 9, No. 4 (2008), 557-567

    External Sources:
    1. Nadia Ballard and Ilan Alon “The Globalization of the Shanghai Garment Trade Association: A Case Study” Senate Hall Academic Publishing, 2005, 1-16
    2. Zhang Monan “Shanghai FTZ: China’s Globalization 2.0” (2013)
    3. Yu Xuanmeng and He Xirong “Shanghai: It’s Urbanization and Culture”, Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change Series III, Asia, Vol. 24 (2004), edited by Xuanmeng and Xirong, 241-256

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  6. The voice of china vs I’m a singer
    When I looks at the words “popular culture in china”, there are only two TV shows reflect in my mind which is the voice of china and I’m a singer.

    Interview questions( )
    1. Have you ever heard the voice of china and I’m a singer.
    2. How do you like the voice of china
    3. How do you think the singers from the of voice of china, which one is your favorites
    4. How do you think the judges? And in season 1 Zhejiang satellite trying to manipulate the real result, how do you think it?
    5. What is your opinion about the singer has to sign a contract in order to win the competition before final round both in season 1&2?
    6. How do you like I’m a singer
    7. How do think of the audience, someone said the audience has been chosen by Hunan satellite and been paid. Even when the camera shooting you if you showing really enjoyed you got bonus.
    8. Which one do you prefer? Why?

    Resources
    http://info.11467.com/d856.htm
    http://news.xinhuanet.com/ent/2014-01/07/c_125967757.htm
    http://huati.weibo.com/27506
    http://liyinghuan.baijia.baidu.com/article/1864
    http://www.zhihu.com/question/20790851

    I will add class material when it post on blackboard.

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  7. I am interested in what is considered popular Chinese music. There are many facets of this topic that I want to explore. I want to learn what makes the music popular in Chinese society. Is it decided strictly by the popularity of the artist? Is a certain genre of music more popular than the rest? Does music popularity vary between ages and genders? Is all popular music strictly Chinese? I also want to explore the phenomenon of kpop penetrating the Chinese music scene. I plan on ending up discussing both mandopop and kpop and their contributions/effects on Chinese society and the Chinese diaspora.

    I plan on having at least 5 interviews completed for the midterm paper. At least 2 of those interviews will be with Korean/Chinese singers that I have access to. I want to get at least 2 interviews with Chinese people who are knowledgeable about popular music in China. I also have a few non-Chinese friends who are interested in the music. I plan on interviewing some of them in order to determine why they like the music and why they think it is popular.

    My interview questions will vary for each of the three groups that I plan on interviewing. I want to ask the singers what got them into the business, how big of an audience they think they reach, what they consider to be popular music and what are the characteristics of said music, why they chose to sing in a certain language (Chinese, English, Korean), if they ever sing outside their first language and their reasons for doing so, which culture/race they identify with the most, if they have to change certain elements in their songs when they are sung in different languages, and how they stand out from the U.S. pop star archetype.

    I want to ask my Chinese interviewees a different set of questions. I am curious to know who their favorite Chinese singers are and who they consider to be popular musicians. I also want to ask them if they like the more “Americanized” Chinese singers better than mainland singers. I want to know what they think makes these people so popular as well as if they prefer songs sung in Chinese versus English or Korean.

    For my non-Chinese friends, I have a slightly separate set of questions. I want to ask these people what got them into foreign music and why they like this kind of music. I want to know what language they prefer to listen to songs in (Chinese, English, or Korean). I want to figure out if they have a differing opinion on the popularity of “Americanized” Chinese singers versus mainland Chinese singers. I also want to ask these people what they think makes these singers popular.

    I have several in-class readings that I am planning on using for my paper—only one of them is a paper that we have already read in class. My first resource will be the article written by She-Mei Shih –Theory Asia and the Sinophone. I also plan on using some of the articles from the Pop Music Industry section in course content. I will be focusing on The ABC’s of Chinese Pop: Wang Leehom and the Marketing of a Global Chinese Celebrity. I have already looked through the article and have found a lot of useful information that I want to include in my paper. I also plan on using Between globalisation and localisation: a study of Hong Kong popular music by Wai-Chung Ho as well as Western Style, Chinese Pop: Jay Chou’s Rap and Hip-Hop in China by Anthony Fung.

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  8. 1. The working topic:
    The counter culture as popular in Chinese history. I would like to explore avantgarde and counter-cultural works throughout Chinese history and discuss the way the themes change and emerge.

    2. Possible interview subjects and questions:
    I could interview a mainland Chinese, a Taiwanese, and a Chinese American. The possible questions may include asking them to name popular Chinese films and novels. I might ask them to identify their news sources about popular trends in China. I would also ask them of their opinion of counter-cultural pieces and artists.

    3. Possible in-class readings:
    1. Introduction, The Avant-garde and the Popular in Modern China (University of Michigan Press, 2014)
    2. Roland Altenburger, "Is It Clothes that Make the Man? Cross-Dressing, Gender, and Sex in Pre-Twentieth Century Zhu Yingtai Lore," Asian Folklore Studies, Volume 64, 2005: 165–205.
    3. Haiyan Lee, "Painted Skin, To Scare or Not to Scare?" (The China Beat Blog)
    4. Stories for Saturday
    5. Julian Ward, “Filming the Anti-Japanese War: The Devils and Buffoons in Jiang Wen’s Guizi Laile,” in New Cinemas, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2004), 107-117.
    6. ZHAO Shuli, The Marriage of Young Blacky, in Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Fiction, 1919-1949, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1983, 507-527.

    4. Possible external academic sources:
    1. Total modernity and the avant-garde in twentieth-century Chinese art / Gao Minglu.
    2. The Chinese postmodern: trauma and irony in Chinese avant-garde fiction / Xiaobin Yang.
    3. CHINA'S AVANT-GARDE FICTION : AN ANTHOLOGY; ED. BY JING WANG
    4. China Has Hipsters, Too: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/11/china-has-hipsters-too/264414/

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  9. For my midterm project, I am going to explore what films in China are popular and why they are popular. I am going to look at three different films of three different genres. I am going to look at "The Painted Skin", "Guize Laile", and "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon".

    I am going to interview my cousin and his wife, who is Chinese, and they live in China. I am going to ask them if they have seen these movies and if they liked it or if they did not like it. I am also going to ask why they think that these movies are popular today.

    The in-class sources I am going to use are the articles we read about the Painted Skin, Guize Laile, and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. I am also going to watch these films myself and give my input on why I think they are popular films.

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  10. I will be doing my paper on consumerism driven by capitalism in modern China and how it has greatly affected the youth's view of pop culture and how it has affected the delivery and content of modern pop culture in China.

    I am going to interview a few of my 20-something Chinese friends (guys & girls) and discover their taste in books, music, movies and their consumer habits.

    In-class source are the articles on Guojingming, as well as the Stories for Saturday.

    As for auxiliary sources, I will be using this article: http://nymag.com/thecut/2012/08/scenes-from-the-chinese-consumerist-revolution.html

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  11. 1. Working topic:
    The reason why different kinds of movies influence different Chinese people from different age.
    2. Possible interview subjects and questions planned:
    I will interview three Chinese people: one is younger than me; another one has same age with me; and the other one is older than me.
    Questions: had you watch the Devils on the Doorstep or the tiny times? How do you feel of these films? Do you think they are related to your age? Do you know the history in the films? What the reasons you like these movies?
    3. Possible in-class readings:
    Translation Tuesday: Tiny Times 2.0 Chapter 1
    Guo Jingming
    Devils on the Doorstep
    Guo Jingming: man of many parts
    4. Possible external sources:
    http://movie.douban.com/subject/20376577/?from=baidu_aladdin
    http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/tinytimes/
    http://www.hunantv.com/v/2013/tinytimes/
    http://movie.douban.com/review/1045537/
    http://wenku.baidu.com/link?url=F0UK2T3c6wy2yz7l4pb7qpTILYaaDyRqNFATQnJi29C_oUcZM8QZoC9a_LWWFLgUu7JmUxcz4P1S43rPQ-hpqf7VWlyF4RM5K4y-l4XQyO3

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  12. 1. The topic I would like to further investigate would be Chinese cinema and the impact or lack of impact on Chinese nationals versus international audiences, specifically Americans viewing Chinese films.
    2. I would like to interview a Chinese national who is about 18-20 years of age as well as a Chinese national who is around 30+ years of age. Then I will interview an American who is 18-20 years old as well as an American who is 30+ years old.
    Some questions I would like to ask would be:
    • How do you perceive Chinese cinema as a ____ year old who is now living in America or who has always lived in America? What are your likes or dislikes?
    • What impact do you believe Chinese cinema has on China as a nation? America as a nation? Or the international community?
    • What was your first experience with a movie that maybe changed your view on Chinese cinema? For the better or worse?
    • As an American or Chinese person living in America, what is your current view on Chinese cinema?


    3. In class readings that will help me will be the readings specifically about Chinese cinema. About horror films, Wuxia vs. Kung Fu as well as comedy.
    "Painted Skin," in PU Songling, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
    The Illuminated Lantern review, 1993
    The Jiang Wen Phenomenon
    The Zhai Shuli Phenomenon
    Ang Lee, director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

    4. Possible external academic sources will be any information I can find regarding America’s reaction to Chinese movies, specifically Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Chinese films with Bruce Lee or other Kung fu type movies. As well as Wuxia. I would like to try and find peer reviewed critiques of pop culture responses to Chinese cinema. This is a working progress and I have not found any specific articles that meet my needs but will keep looking.

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  13. 1. I am writing my midterm on the effect Communism has on Chinese entertainment
    2. Possible interview questions:
    Do you consider yourself to be ethnically, culturally, or nationally Chinese?
    Do you regularly enjoy Chinese-language entertainment?
    Do you consider yourself a communist?
    If you answered “yes” to question number 2, have you ever noticed communist symbolism, motifs, or propaganda in this entertainment?
    What entertainment do you enjoy from cultures other than China?
    If you enjoy entertainment from cultures other than the Chinese, would you say that Chinese media has more or less influence from communism based on what you’ve seen?
    My plan is to interview a random sample of people with different ethnicities and national backgrounds
    3. The marriage of young Blacky.

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  14. 1. The working topic for my midterm paper is A Comparative View of Chinese New Year Film.

    2. Possible interview subjects include American audience and Chinese audience.
    The questions planned are as follows:
    (1) How do you like the movie?
    (2) Is the movie funny for you?
    (3) The movie contains three stories, an introduction and an ending, which of these do you find most interesting?
    (4) What social problem do you think the movie reflects?
    Besides these open questions, there are several extra questions related to the detail of the movie to get the feedback from the interview subjects in order to find out whether or not they understood the film.

    3. Possible in-class readings:
    (1) Yomi Braester, Chinese Cinema in the Age of Advertisement: The Filmmaker as a Cultural Broker;
    (2) Shujen Wang, Big Shot’s Funeral: China, Sony, and the WTO

    4. Possible external sources:
    Ma, Kevin (2013-12-20). ”Personal Tailor sets China 2-D opening record” Film Business Asia.
    Daniel Eagan (2013-12-19). Film Review: Personal Tailor. http://www.filmjournal.com
    Zhenguo Wang, Feng Xiaogang insulted himself as “three not”: not decent, not traditional, not rational. http://gzdaily.dayoo.com/html/2013-12/18/content_2486046.htm

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  15. my topic is going to be Culture icons.
    I am going to talk about 2-3 famous Chinese people that are known by the world. Yao Ming as an athlete, and maybeJackie Chan in the film industry.

    I am going to interview the following people, my uncle who was on the Chinese National bball team. because Im going to let everybody know how hard is it for Yao Ming to be this popular as a Chinese athlete.
    And a Chinese student here who is from mainland China, does them make you proud to be Chinese?
    questions are simple but important.
    one of my in class reading is going to be the film one,"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".And the other one is going to be Guo Jingming.
    my outside resources is going to be the documentary film

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  16. A.Modernizing notions of romance in china, guojingming and his impact on popular culture, as well as what his success signifies

    B.my friend lihuan from shanghai, age 25
    -What do people in china think about guojingming?
    -what is guojingming's influence on chinese popular culture?
    -have you read guojingmings books?
    -what were chinese traditional attitudes towards romance like?
    -what are modern chinese attitudes towards romance like?

    C.sources
    -an article about guojingming
    http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2013-08/20/content_29769726.htm
    -another article about guojingming
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/books/review/King-t.html?_r=0
    -an article about a young couple
    http://www.chinasmack.com/2014/videos/young-couple-live-on-5-rmbday-to-save-for-home-down-payment.html

    D. n/a

    E.Guo jingming is an interesting phenomena who popularity is surprising given how many people claim to dislike him. The fact that he is so popular (from either being hated or loved) must mean that he is at least doing something right. Its apparent that on a superficial level, judging from the readings that Guo Jingming taps into the latent vain of overt materialism that lies in chinese society, and perhaps in some way, this is what the chinese audiences are demanding right now, a form of mindless, meaningless fast food entertainment that has no pretenses of trying to export higher values.

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  17. Micro blogging and Censorship

    This oral history will gather opinions and information on the popularity of micro blogging and how this affects the CCP’s ability to control information. Our first class this semester dealt with the largely increased use of micro blogs in China and some information and popular opinion will be drawn from this material. 70 million people following one celebrity can be both constructive and dangerous.
    Interview questions will guide the reader toward knowing the popular functions of micro blogs, hopefully uncovering instances that must’ve aided the governments causes as well as instances which may have hindered those causes. Questions will be posed as to how micro blogging may serve China in the future as well as now. How might propaganda be disseminated or stalled through micro blogs? What is the popular opinion of free speech? What are perceived reactions of CCP to micro blogging?
    Interview subjects will include both American and Chinese student currently living in the US as well as in China.
    Outside sources are forthcoming as I’m sure some academic journals have published articles addressing micro blogs.

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  18. The working topic for your midterm paper: Development of classic Chinese Legends, how the old is modified to be presented to the new.

    Possible interview subjects and questions: Native Mainland China students and professors, students studying Chinese pop culture, and other cultural students. Questions that will possibly be asked are: Are you familiar with the original legends (The White Snake & Painted Skin)? Have you seen the most recent adaptations of them? Do you like the new version or the old? Do you think it is necessary to change old legends as time goes on?

    Possible in-class readings you will read closely and draw inspiration from:
    In-class readings that are being used include Painted Skin: To Scare or Not to Scare? By Haiyan Lee, “The Painted Skin,” in PU Songling, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Review on Painted Skin by King Hu, Wilt L. Ideama, “Old Tales for New Times,” and Liang LUO, “The White Snake as the New Woman of Modern China.”

    Possible external academic sources:
    Some possible external sources include: Jason Anderson, “Resurrecting China’s box office,” (http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=7cd86930-deae-4f9d-a9c9c12c96ce9dfc%40sessionmgr114&vid=9&hid=106&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=nfh&AN=6FP2757760392)
    Living up to the big screen, (http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=7cd86930-deae-4f9d-a9c9-c12c96ce9dfc%40sessionmgr114&vid=13&hid=106)
    The Legend of the White Snake: A Personal Amplification by Chie Lee (http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=14&sid=7cd86930-deae-4f9d-a9c9-c12c96ce9dfc%40sessionmgr114&hid=106&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=aph&AN=27832678)

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  19. The working topic for my paper will be Supernatural China: An Analysis of the Demons and Spirits Present in Today's Popular Folk Tales.
    My possible interview subjects will be a few people from mainland China, a person from Hong Kong, a Taiwanese, a Chinese Malaysian, a Singaporean and an American with a strong interest in Chinese culture.
    Some of my planned interview questions are how the presence of supernatural/spiritual elements in popular tales affect the way the viewers see everyday scenarios, what their different perspectives and insights are on the censorship of "horror" films, and what they think about this and whether they enjoy having these elements incorporated into Chinese folk tales.
    Possible in-class materials that I will use are the original Painted Skin story and the story of the White Snake.
    I will also make use of various journals found on JSTOR and materials available in the UK libraries as external sources, as well as giving the favorite stories of my interviewees a closer look.

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  20. In my paper I hope to address the similarities and differences between western and Chinese music. I hope to emphasize the western influence has on Chinese music in these modern times. Western influence is something that is very profound and becoming common in the Chinese music industry. I will interview a traditional Chinese person that can tell me what their honest views are about the westernized music that the Chinese industry is producing these days.

    Interview Questions

    1. Western influence in Chinese Music.
    2. Where do you see western influence the most in Chinese music?
    - Where do you see western influence the most in Chinese influence the most in
    Chinese music?
    - When did this become most commonly seen in the Chinese industry?
    - Do you think that this has had a positive or negative impact on the popularity of
    Chinese music?
    - As a traditional Chinese what do you think of the amount of western influence in
    Chinese music nowadays?
    - Would you prefer a move traditional Chinese style of music or is the western style
    music?
    3. The class readings that I will take into account while writing my paper will be the
    pop music industry articles.
    4. I will consult the JSTOR and Project muse database and also take the survey to
    help myself with research.

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