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• W189437324 abstract "The aim of this paper is to review the role and impact that material culture methodology is having in the field of modern Chinese studies. It will be examined how this methodology is assisting in the changing research focus in the China field. This paper will explore what material culture is and how it as a methodology has assisted in the wider acceptance of the field of Chinese studies. This will also be explored through a critical review of some dominant material culture paradigms of explanation in major Chinese texts. Firstly, an examination of what is material culture and material culture methodology will be undertaken. Ian Woodward has stated that “objects are the material things people encounter, interact with and use [additionally these] objects are commonly spoken of as material culture”. And importantly according to Woodward, “people require objects”. Whilst material culture focuses on objects, things or artifacts, and because of this its importance is easier to gauge in other fields including archaeology, its contemporary relevance to areas, including fashion and gender studies, is becoming increasingly evident and has been the source of much scholarly debate in Taiwan, UK and the US. Robert Williams asserts that historians use these artifacts of material culture to “explore broader questions about the culture and the people that made them”. It is here however that the inherent issues lie in its role as a viable methodology within Chinese studies because according to Knappett material culture holds a “central yet ambiguous role in human societies”. The emergence of this kind of new method of cultural history has produced an entire field devoted to new analysis of the lives of everyday people in various cultures and periods in Chinese history. The idea behind this new approach is that history does not only occur in a social or cultural vacuum, and so historians in this field focus their study on finer details that have perhaps previously been ignored. Material culture historians use texts, pictures, and objects to construct an impression of the common daily experience in a given culture or local society in China. This re-conceptualization of history is important for historians of all theoretical persuasions to consider, as it allows us to view the greater complexities and intricacies of our historical subjects. As Hunt argues, it enables us “to be [more] concerned with the historical webs in which [our] objects of study are caught.” This emphasis on context and its role in determining the actual and symbolic significance of material things enlightens certain aspects of current Chinese historical study on daily life. In this paper, I will also analyze how Chinese historians and social scientists have discussed daily life history in Modern China and what material culture of knowledge is employed in the literature. The literature on material culture will be discussed in relation to wider debates about material culture paradigms in Modern Chinese historiography. The contrast between the Chinese scholars’ approaches and the western material culture studies in the literature will be assessed. Through case studies, this paper will explore how the material culture approach adopted by Chinese scholars can play a role in challenging existing hegemonic paradigms in the China field." @default.
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• W189437324 title "物质文化与近代中国生活史研究 (Wuzhi wenhua yu jindai Zhongguo shenghuoshi yanjiu - Material culture methodology in Chinese studies)" @default.
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