The state question in Chinese popular cultural studies by Wang, Jing

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Introduction: the politics and production of scales in China: How does geography matter to studies of local, popular culture? by Wang, Jing

“…Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines the relationship between space and the production of local popular culture in contemporary China. The international team of contributors examine the inter-relationship between the cultural imaginary of a given place and China’s continuing drive towards urbanization. …”
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Further Reading by Montfort, Nick

“…It is clear that the contributions in this volume are not only insightful, but also wide-ranging, reaching into popular culture and across different media forms and practices. …”
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ON METAPHOR: Reciprocity and Immunity by Fischer, Michael M. J.

“…My reading of David Napier's article foregrounds or highlights (1) a key scientific “discovery” or observation; (2) the history of shifting high level metaphors as key new biological mechanisms are apprehended; (3) three key contemporary problems in immunological biology identified by Napier (transplantation, tumor immunology, autoimmune diseases); and (4) the ways in which popular culture takes up new scientific terminologies as folk “philosophemes” or cultural components for apprehending sociocultural change.…”
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John Byrne's The Slab Boys: Technicolored Hellhole in a Town Called Malice by Donaldson, William

“…Presents a detailed discussion and appreciation of the Slab Boys tetralogy, a sequence of four plays by the Scottish playwright and painter John Byrne, beginning with The Slab Boys (1978), focused on a group of apprentices in the color-mixing room of a Paisley carpet-factory in the 1950s, and then tracing the divergence of their lives through three later plays, The Loveliest Night of the Year (1979, later titled Cuttin' A Rug), Still Life (1982), and Nova Scotia (2008); examines Byrne's characterization, "excoriatingly destructive wit," and "rambunctiously demotic language"; analyzes the tetralogy's continuing major themes of the relation between art and life, high art and popular culture; and concludes that these are plays of "striking intellectual breadth" and "superb verbal inventiveness," combining "international with distinctively Scottish themes," and "producing a fusion of realism and fantasy probably unmatched in Scotland since the heyday of Hugh MacDiarmid."…”
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A Pattern Mining Approach to Study Strategy Balance in RTS Games by Bosc, Guillaume, Boulicaut, Jean-Francois, Raissi, Chedy, Kaytoue, Mehdi, Tan, Philip

“…Whereas purest strategic games such as Go and Chess seem timeless, the lifetime of a video game is short, influenced by popular culture, trends, boredom, and technological innovations. …”
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