Lin, Zhili and Lee, Charity and Kaur, Surinderpal (2024) The socialization of nationalist and socialist values: Construction of the model youth in a Chinese reality TV show. China Information, 38 (3). pp. 384-404. ISSN 0920-203X, DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0920203X241241370.
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Commenting on the future development of China, President Xi Jinping said, `China's children today are not only undergoing and witnessing the realization of the country's first centenary goal, they are also a new force for achieving the second centenary goal and building China into a great modern socialist country.' This statement reflects a socially shared belief that Chinese children and youth are expected to shoulder the responsibility of nation-building. This study explores how the ideology of nationalism is disseminated through the popular Chinese reality TV show, X-Change, via the legitimation of the model Chinese youth. Using Rowan Mackay's multimodal legitimation framework to analyse six episodes from Season 18 of X-Change, this article explores how the model Chinese youth is semiotically constructed and legitimized. Findings from the analysis reveal how the model Chinese youth represents a specific normalized national identity. This is promoted through the embodiment of the urban-rural binary by the show's main characters and the representation of the exchange journey as the inner transformation of `problematic' citizens.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | legitimation; rural-urban divide; reality TV; multimodal discourse analysis; nationalism |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Languages and Linguistics Universiti Malaya |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jan 2025 06:39 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jan 2025 06:39 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/47605 |
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