Beyond ‘Rising Tides’ and ‘Lying Flat’: Emergent Cultural Practices Among Youth in Urban China

In their article, “Beyond ‘Rising Tides’ and ‘Lying Flat’: Emergent Cultural Practices Among Youth in Urban China”, Diego Gullotta Lili Lin examine how Chinese youth are positioned within the dominant culture, young people appropriate space emergent cultural practices, they negotiate meaning-making. The article first analyses rising tides (houlang) video, sponsored jointly by state private sector, argues that it reduces to a homogenous subject inscribed into discourse of “China’s rise” (zhongguo jueqi) via emotional mobilization. “lying flat” phenomenon represents people’s negative response this mobilization, yet still falls dichotomous “positive/negative energy”. Moving beyond discourse, provides three cases practices among urban middle-class explore what extent can these characterized knowledge fluidity, exceed logic market.