Rethinking Discourse of Chineseness on Chinese Popular Music

Abstract

In the context of a globalizing tendency and multicultural fusing, Chineseness as a term is both ancient and new, usually used to indicate the identity of “being Chinese”. Considering transnational flows of capital, culture and migration permeating within the sphere of Chinese popular music, various forms of Chineseness have been created. This paper aims to rethink and discuss the question related to Chineseness in contemporary Chinese popular music through reviewing several articles. By textual analyzing, this paper shows how these articles describe and embody the Chineseness discourse and its future in Chinese popular music.