Identity, Space, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Northeast China

Part 1: Media representation and identity.- Chapter 1. The myth of Dongbei in the news: A quantitative analysis of Northeast China’s news media representations (Xianwen KUANG and Kuangjian WU, XJTLU).- Chapter 2. A Mirror between Two Cities: Postmodern Life of My Aunt (Ming REN, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences) .- Chapter 3. Suspense, Space and Subaltern Identity in three Dongbei Writers’ Crime Stories (Xuying Yu and Xi Liu) .- Chapter 4. Language, dialect and humour: Zhao Benshan, regional stereotypes and discrimination (Lan GE, Nottingham Ningbo and Zhen Troy CHEN, UAL) .- Chapter 5.The Ecological Re-conception of Time and Space: Harbin in Chi Zijian’s Fictional Works (Shuo Han, XJTLU).- Part 2: The reinstitution, economic struggle and space.- Chapter 6. Taking typo-morphological evolution as a lens: An economic and societal review of the transformation of urban areas in Dalian (Han WANG, Donghua University) .- Chapter 7. Female factory workers’ use of mobile phones: Walling outof the physical space of a factory compound (Xin PEI, Nottingham Ningbo) .- Chapter 8. Sentiment, Morality and the Vulnerable Rhetoric of Saving China: “Kingly Way” Manchukuo and the Aestheticization of the Nation (Yuji Xu, CityUHK).- Part 3: Living in Dongbei everyday life.- Chapter 9. Discourses on Minzu and ethnicity: Sibo living as outsiders and minorities in Dongbei (Lei HAO, Nottingham Ningbo) .- Chapter 10. Old country folks, sharp young lads and talented large women: Dongbei’s micro-celebrities on social media platforms under the discourse of Dongbei Renaissance (Zhen Troy Chen, Kuang, Liu, Han) .- Chapter 11. Affective reflection on Dalian People’s Stadium as a place in a densified memory of football and everyday life (Jiawen HAN, XJTLU).