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Gender Roles in the Chinese Media, 2007.
This paper researches globalization and gender differences in images of Chinese women in the Chinese media.
2,811 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 83.95
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The paper discusses the premise that regardless of the efforts of the Chinese media to exclude Western themes from the media, public demand has allowed some Westernized female images to creep into the media of mainland China. The research explores the presence and prevalence of westernized female images in Chinese advertising media.
The paper offers a background of Chinese cultural ideals and provides a literature review. The paper shows how a new image of Chinese women is emerging in the media that is accepted more readily by the women than the men.
Outline:
Background of the Problem
Literature Review
Methodology
Results and Discussion
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"China is a country steeped in tradition. Historically, it has been resistant to change and the introduction of foreign influences. For many years, China had an isolationist policy towards any type of foreign influence. China wanted to prove that they were self-sufficient. This exclusion of foreign influence isolated them culturally as well. Chinese cultural ideals were reinforced. Traditional female and male roles were predetermined before a child's birth, and the child dare not try to break them."
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Ethnographies and Fiction: Gender Roles in Rural China, 2002.
A look at anthropological and fictional ethnographies of women's roles in a rural Chinese village during the reign of Mao.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 80.95
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This paper looks at anthropological and fictional ethnographies in Chinese rural life, focusing on one village and the people in that village. These analyses take place over a period of political and economic upheaval, during Mao's campaigns for land and economic reform. Understanding the roles of women in Chinese rural society helps understand political and economic structures.
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Mainstream Chinese Media, 2006.
A look at how the government of China uses the Chinese media as a propaganda tool for manipulating the population.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, $ 62.95
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Authoritarian regimes are notorious for using the media as a means by which they can inculcate regime-friendly values while simultaneously discrediting adversaries at home and abroad. This paper examines the Chinese government's use of the media as a propaganda tool, pointing out that while its manipulation of the media may be more subtle than many of the repressive regimes which have preceded it or which exist contemporaneously with it, the fact remains that the power brokers in Beijing have been very quick to control the kind of news which reaches the eyes, ears and ultimately minds of Chinese citizens.
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The Role of The Chinese Press in the Tiananmen Square Rebellion, 1994.
Analyzes the role of the Chinese press in the 1989 democracy uprisings. Argues that the domestic Chinese press took an active role in the events & aided in manipulating reactions & outcomes.
4,500 words (approx. 18.0 pages), 15 sources, $ 135.95
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"Introduction
In China, as in most totalitarian states, the press is really little more than another arm of the government. In the Beijing Spring of 1989, however, for a brief moment that dynamic changed. Whereas the usual opposition or rebellion movement would have no voice in or means to manipulate the press, the student democracy protestors in Tiananmen Square found themselves both gaining straightforward coverage from their national press and also able to participate in the process by granting interviews and attempting to manipulate the coverage. The reasons for this change are multifold, among the most important of these being the behind the scenes power struggle within the government, during which it relaxed its control of the information flow. This did not, however, mean that the students.."
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The Good Woman of Setzuan: Female Gender Roles, 2008.
An analysis of female gender roles in Bertolt Brecht's play, "The Good Woman of Setzuan."
863 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 0 sources, $ 30.95
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This paper analyzes Shen Te's character and role as the female protagonist with a male alter ego in Bertolt Brecht's "The Good Woman of Setzuan." The writer discusses the importance of masks in the play and how their significance in Chinese and Japanese drama is skillfully blended by Brecht with their use in the western world. The writer concludes that Brecht makes a valid argument of how women have to adopt masculine characteristics in order to survive as a woman in a man's world.
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"Shen Te's female/male dilemma is completely relevant to modern female roles. Women in current generations are pursuing a different life: that of a career instead of disposable jobs and raising families. Women are now equal providers to most households, but to be a successful leader, or even sometimes, just to be successful in their career; many women are forced to adapt to male personality traits. Aggression and competition are the main traits women have to focus on: they usually have to be more so than men to be taken seriously or treated equally. Women have to choose to be traditionally male (taking a career) or traditionally female (and taking a family)."
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Chinese Media, 2006.
An analysis of Chinese media coverage.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, $ 62.95
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This essay examines media coverage in China. The material examined is primarily the media log, which is included in the appendix of the paper. The examination looks at media coverage over a five day period of time and the focus of the coverage is on foreign relations and international co-operation, modernization and development.
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"China does not have a free press. This means that the media is directly controlled by the Government (Falkenheim 1). This government controlled media tends to be particularly interested in two types of issues. These issues are foreign relations and international co-operation and modernization and development. Foreign relations and international co-operation seem to be the most common issues in the Chinese media. A four day examination of the major issues in the People's Daily.com found that 28.5 per cent of the stories focused on issues related to foreign relations and international co-operation (Appendix 1)."
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Chinese Media Industry, 2004.
A comparison of the Western media to the media industry in China.
1,290 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper documents the shifts and changes that have shaped the media industry as to societal, political, organizational, or national influences in the formation, governance and processes within the media industry in China. Further, the paper focuses on elements, both in the historical sense and that of the present day, and attempts to determine what influences the political economy of the media industry. The paper examines the theories surrounding the political economy of communication and the culture industry in a theoretical framework. The paper explores the theories of political economy in media communications, while contrasting and comparing the Western media industry with that of the media industry in China.
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"China entered into the World Trade Organization and gave rise to speculations that the world's largest media market might be much more easily accessible to publishers in the international media industry. The market economy in China is making gains however the media industry including the print remains in the governments hands which results in a product that is "forced-fed to all levels of governments offices, at a cost ultimately assumed by the taxpayers" (China Daily 2003) . In fact estimates for the taxes in China's media market are stated to be "16 to 20 billion a year. " (China Daily, 2003) Government spending pays approximately "6 to 10 billion Yuan" of that amount. (China Daily 2003) The media industry in China is under total government control with a very few foreign investors as well as private investors involved on the retail side of business."
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Analysis of Press Coverage in Chinese Media, 2002.
Analysis of the preoccupation the Chinese Press had, in 1952, with the opening of the Asian-Pacific Peace Conference.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 89.95
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On October 2, 1952 the Chinese press - as evidenced in translated documents contained in the "Survey of the China Mainland Press" - was preoccupied by the opening of the Asian-Pacific Peace Conference in Peking (Beijing) almost to the exclusion of all other issues. However, even in the press excerpts from this conference, a number of subsidiary issues can be seen to manifest themselves.
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Women's Role in Chinese Life, 2001.
This paper explores the growing societal changes that have taken place in the lives of women in China's long history.
2,840 words (approx. 11.4 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 84.95
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This paper examines the history of women's roles and rights throughout China's history, and the philosophical underpinnings of these roles in Confucianism and traditional Chinese belief. The author examines the changes in women's lives since the Chinese Revolution.
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"Today, Chinese women have entered society, without necessarily walking out of the family, and so they are given more than one role in life. China is both an old country and a new country, and its expectations of women reflect that duality. For nearly 3,000 years, China was a feudal society. A new China emerged only after the establishment of the People?s Republic of China, in 1949. And the country's modernization has continued in the last 15 years with the institution of economic reform and a policy of interaction with the outside world. In traditional China, marriage was the defining event of a female?s life, shifting her space, affiliation and responsibility from her parents' family to her husband's. There is a common saying in China: "men tend the outside and women the inside" (nan zhu wai n? zhu nei). A woman?s social role was confined to the family. Her major obligation was caring for her husband, in-laws and children."
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Chinese Media Reportage on Crime, Justice and America, 2006.
An analysis of the the media coverage in China on topics such as crime and justice.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper examines Chinese reportage appearing in English online editions which address matters of crime and justice in the People's Republic of China, and secondly, in the United States. One sees efforts to convince the reader that the PRC offers a fair and effective criminal justice system. One also notices how the United States is presented as an unlawful and unjust country, and that these topic areas are closely related in terms of the wanted impression upon the reader.
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Gender Relations in Chinese Literature, 2008.
A review of the Chinese story "Han the Fifth Sells her Charms in New Bridge Town" by Feng Menglong.
2,110 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper examines how Feng Menglong provides a window into the social, cultural, economic and political nature of Chinese society in the 17th century in his story "Han the Fifth Sells her Charms in New Bridge Town". The paper looks specifically at gender relations in Chinese Society in the 17th century. The paper explains that men and women had rigidly defined roles as well as a range of social and moral obligations attached to these gender roles. Individuals who fail to remain within these prescribed gender roles are seen as weak and immoral. The paper then discusses how Feng Menglong demonstrates what happens when individuals step outside of their prescribed gender roles.
From the Paper
"From the story "Han the Fifth Sells her Charms in New Bridge Town" it appears that gender roles were very important in 17th Century Chinese society. Men were seen as being connected to the Yang(Menglong 91). In order to understand the importance of this it is necessary to look at the concept of Ying and Yang. Ying and Yang are often expressed in a symbol known as the Tai Ji Tu made up of two fish shaped symbols forming a circle. Yang is the active, male heaven principle. Ying is the passive, female earth principle."
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Gender and the Media, 2002.
Argues that 'gender stereotyping' in the media actually represents the general view of the population.
2,129 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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Public media provides a channel for people to communicate among each other. This communication takes on various forms. Advertising is one area where meaning is intentionally created. Newspapers and magazines report both news and opinions. Even music is a means of communicating to a mass audience. All of these forms of communication create meaning and one of the underlying factors present in all is gender. Each of these forms of media create certain ideas about masculinity and femininity. Some authors argue that the end result of this is that men become objectified as masculine and women become objectified as feminine. The emphasis is often especially on the dehumanization and stereotyping of women via their physical body and class status. For example, women are seen as objects of desire, valued for their attractiveness but with little else to offer, while men are seen as superior to women. The paper discusses three authors whos consider these meanings and how they are created - Susan Faludi, Joan Morgan, and Jean Kilbourne. Each of these authors look at how gender is created in a certain form of media and each suggest that the media creates an exaggerated and misconfigured view of the role of gender. The paper shows, however, that what these authors fail to recognize is that the media as a whole is communicating a range of ideas on gender roles and that those ideas generated have their basis in society itself. The paper argues that these authors seem to generalize themselves, suggesting that the media is responsible for exaggerated roles of gender. In contrast, by taking a closer look, this paper illustrates that the media only represents the general views of people and that the media does not really offer only one view of gender.
Paper Outline:
Introduction
1. Media as Communication
2. Argument that Media Creates Ideas on Gender
3. Focus on Gender Ideas about Women
4. Introduce Three Authors with Ideas on Gender Creation in the Media
5. Argument: The Media only Represents the General Views of People and the Media does not really offer only one View of Gender
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"Each of these articles expresses the view that the media creates a certain image of women. In each case, it is also expressed that this is an exaggerated view of women. Kilbourne offers advertisements where the sexuality of women is taken to an extreme, such as by including bondage and violent images in addition to sexual ones. Morgan describes hip-hop music where the lyrics represent an exaggerated view of women. Faludi shows how a group of boys with behavior that can be described as extreme in the way they view women, came to represent the general view of the young male's view of women. In each case, the views expressed are exaggerated claims. For example, the young boys in Faludi's articles do not likely represent the views of the average young male. However, their coverage in the media may have created the impression that their views are closer to the norm than they really are. In summary, each of the articles are correct in saying that the examples they represent create exaggerated views."
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Misrepresentation of Gender and Race in the Media, 2006.
An examination of how the media misrepresents gender and race, and how this leads to a distorted view of reality.
1,274 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper examines how race and gender are distorted by the media and how this distortion influences reality. The writer discusses how the American public has created a universal understanding of what they believe about Black America through images presented by the media. In addition, the writer believes that the imagery presented in the media of women has gradually slanted towards more straightforward sexist imagery and language. The writer also discusses the power implications resulting from these images. The writer concludes that the media needs to take responsibility for their actions and illustrate women as more than just an outline in front of a black screen - but as individuals who raise children and create change in society.
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"A filmmaker's ultimate role is to properly present images in sequence that tell a story and/or conveys a message or several of them. With various imagery tools, movies present a message in a way that makes them seem natural and fitting for the context that it is presented in. Whether it's a horror movie, documentary or educational film, the media gives us ways of imagining particular groups, identities and situations (Bronton & Stafford 141). This is most often defined as a stereotype."
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Social Class, Gender, Age and the Media, 2005.
This paper studies representations of social class, gender and age in the media.
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This six page undergraduate paper examines representations of social class, gender, ethnicity, race, and/or age in the media. It seems evident that the best way to accomplish this is to examine television ads, radio ads, billboard ads, newspaper ads, magazine ads, and Internet ads. The writer points out that since ads are trying to sell a certain product or service, their content represents people who buy their product as extremely attractive, friendly, popular and happy people.
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"In conducting a content analysis of representations of social class, gender, ethnicity, race, and/or age in the media, it seemed evident that the best way to accomplish this would be to examine television ads, radio ads, billboard ads, newspaper ads, magazine ads, and Internet ads. Since ads are trying to sell a certain product or service, their content represents people who buy their product as extremely attractive, friendly, popular, and happy people. These representations in media ads may differ in specific content, but they all reach out to their target audience in the same way by appealing to the social instincts and values of people."
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Gender and the Media, 2006.
Examines how the media negatively portrays women.
1,187 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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The negative portrayal of gender roles in the media can be seen in television, movies, music and advertising and the repercussions of such are exhibited in actions and thoughts of individuals within that society. The paper contends that this mania, this explosion in glorification and objectification of women's bodies, promotes unreal images of women, distorts physical reality, creates an obsession with visual stimulation and trivializes all other natural features of a healthy psychosexual relationship. Furthermore, the paper argues that the media overload of degrading and objectifying women is the cause of society thinking that this practice is acceptable and right, when it, in reality, is an outdated practice that needs to be corrected.
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"A myth is something everyone thinks is true, but in reality, is not. In "The Beauty Myth" by Naomi Wolf, she defines the beauty myth as the thought that beauty is universal, time transcending, and that women have to be beautiful to be socially accepted. The reality is, though, that beauty does not transcend time. From the voluptuous Marilyn Monroe to the famished-looking Kate Moss, American ideas of beauty have changed with media influence. In the mid-twentieth century, Monroe was a full-figured size 16, while models today, like Moss, are thought to be overweight if they are not bone thin and their cheekbones are not protruding from their faces. In addition, this trend has so widely spread that "In New York, you go to a cocktail party and they'll tell you where they had surgery. In L.A, you go to a party and they'll show you where they had the surgery" (Gerhart 404)."
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