{"461571":{"#nid":"461571","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Liu to Lecture on Chinese Dialect Writing on the Internet","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/faculty\/jin-liu\u0022\u003EJin Liu\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor of Chinese in the Ivan Allen College \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Modern Languages\u003C\/a\u003E, has been invited as a guest speaker by the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.international.ucla.edu\/ccs\/home\u0022\u003EUCLA Center for Chinese Studies\u003C\/a\u003E. Dr. Liu will deliver a lecture\u0026nbsp;examining the dialect writing in Chinese characters on the\u0026nbsp;Internet in contemporary China. Deviating from the standard writing\u0026nbsp;of Chinese, the Internet-savvy youth transcribe their native dialects\u0026nbsp;on an ad hoc basis, which celebrates multiplicity, creativity, individuality\u0026nbsp;and resists uniformity, standardization, and institutionalization. In particular, the study investigates how written dialectal words are explored\u0026nbsp;to mark a distinct visual style and to articulate a distinct local youth identity. Furthermore, this study examines the dominant strategy of\u0026nbsp;phonetic borrowing in dialect transcription. It is argued that diachronically, the youth\u0027s phonocentric obsession tapped into the\u0026nbsp;May Fourth tradition of the baihua movement; and synchronically,\u0026nbsp;the celebration of dialect sound on the Internet echoes the contemporary\u0026nbsp;soundscape of local dialects formed in the mass media in recent\u0026nbsp;years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Liu\u0027s interdisciplinary research studies contemporary Chinese popular culture from the perspective of language, sound, voice, and music. She is the author of the book,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESignifying the Local: Media Productions Rendered in Local Languages in Mainland China in the New Millennium\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E(2013). She co-edited and contributed to the book,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EChinese Under Globalization: Emerging Trends in Language Use in China\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(2012). She has published articles in journals including\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Epositions: Asia Critique\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EModern Chinese Literature and Culture\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJournal of Modern Literature in Chinese\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EChinese Language and Discourse\u003C\/em\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EHarvard Asia Pacific Review\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELink to the event:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.international.ucla.edu\/ccs\/event\/11415\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.international.ucla.edu\/ccs\/event\/11415\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EModern Languages Associate Professor Jin Liu will lecture on representation of dialects with Chinese characters on the Internet\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Modern Languages Associate Professor Jin Liu will lecture on representation of dialects with Chinese characters on the Internet"}],"uid":"28754","created_gmt":"2015-10-22 12:47:33","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:47","author":"T. Jesse Brannen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-10-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-10-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"290761":{"id":"290761","type":"image","title":"Jin Liu","body":null,"created":"1449244289","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:51:29","changed":"1475894988","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:48","alt":"Jin Liu","file":{"fid":"199223","name":"jin_liu_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jin_liu_1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jin_liu_1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":18232,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jin_liu_1_0.jpg?itok=KJCZx-qS"}}},"media_ids":["290761"],"groups":[{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}