Abstract
Contemporary Chinese cultural studies has drawn extensively from Western theoretical and intellectual resources. However, a key challenge remains: how to effectively represent and reconstruct the experiences of contemporary Chinese social and cultural life, while demonstrating the value of cultural studies in this context through the interplay of experience and theory. This challenge calls fora critical reflection on the foundation of cultural studies in China. With its roots in empirical analysis, cultural studies has developed a methodology that addresses issues such as the relationship between culture and society, and culture and life, from the experiential perspective. The field also incorporates a tradition from the sociology of emotions, reflected in cultural analysis as a form of theoretical discourse. These theories and methods chart the progression of cultural studies from experience to theory. However, within the Chinese context, the field also grapples with the issue of balancing experience with theory, which naturally prioritizes experience over purely theoretical constructs.
Keywords
cultural studies, Chinese context, experience, sociology of emotions
First Page
1
Last Page
11
Recommended Citation
Jifang, Duan. 2024. "From Experience to Theory: Cultural Studies and Its Challenges Within the Chinese Context." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 44, (5): pp.1-11. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol44/iss5/1
