Arts and Culture in East Asia

Guest Editors

Svetlana Kharchenkova, Leiden University, Netherlands

Jun Fang, Colby College, United States

Globalizing the sociology of the arts and culture: East Asian perspectives

In this editorial, I argue for a globalized sociology of the arts and culture that transcends West-centered theories and practices. To this end, two interrelated perspectives—global and decentering—are needed....

Authors: Jun Fang

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2023 10:8

Content type: Editorial Published on: 15 May 2023
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Global exposure: an alternative pathway to understanding cultural omnivorousness in East Asian societies

Previous studies on cultural taste build a class-omnivorousness framework. However, the conceptualization and measure of cultural omnivorousness are highly Western. To examine how cultural omnivorousness is sh...

Authors: Shichao Du

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2022 9:13

Content type: Research Published on: 16 September 2022
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Producing Korean literature (KLit) for export

How does art from what have been culturally peripheral countries that were not former colonies of Western powers scale shift or find its way to the global center? What can the Korean case tell us about the cir...

Authors: Peggy Levitt and Bo-Seon Shim

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2022 9:10

Content type: Research Published on: 9 July 2022
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The art worlds of gender performance: cosplay, embodiment, and the collective accomplishment of gender

In recent years, cosplay has gained global visibility as a performing art in which fans dress up as fictional characters from anime, comics/manga, or games. Although scholars contend that cosplay exemplifies g...

Authors: Yuchen Yang

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2022 9:9

Content type: Research Published on: 6 July 2022
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When the local encounters the global: aesthetic conflicts in the Chinese traditional music world

Through a case study of the Chinese traditional music world, this study explores how artists in different specializations within an art world working on an indigenous art form make sense of divergent aesthetic...

Authors: Jiaxuan Yu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2022 9:6

Content type: Research Published on: 25 June 2022
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Emerging in the East: the Shanghai Biennale’s pathways to legitimation, 1996 to 2018

This study examines the 22-year development of the Shanghai Biennale from a localized contemporary art exhibition to an internationally renowned art biennale. Through the lens of organizational legitimacy, thi...

Authors: Chenchen Zhu and LEA Braden

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2022 9:5

Content type: Research Published on: 24 June 2022
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Arts and Culture in East Asia

Guest Editors

Globalizing the sociology of the arts and culture: East Asian perspectives

Global exposure: an alternative pathway to understanding cultural omnivorousness in East Asian societies

Producing Korean literature (KLit) for export

The art worlds of gender performance: cosplay, embodiment, and the collective accomplishment of gender

When the local encounters the global: aesthetic conflicts in the Chinese traditional music world

Emerging in the East: the Shanghai Biennale’s pathways to legitimation, 1996 to 2018