Major Barbara on Chinese Wikipedia and in Microblogs

Major Barbara on Chinese Wikipedia and in Microblogs - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2016, written by Kay Li.

Overview

Unforeseen by their authors, literary works acquire their own contemporaries and are transposed into new media: film, Wikipedia, and microblogs. The next generation of Shaw readers in China are not theatergoers, nor filmgoers, but youths surfing the Internet. China is negotiating between a respect for its long cultural history and the cultural challenges accompanying its intense, rapid economic development. This chapter examines how Major Barbara is highlighted in current Chinese social media, via microblogs and Wikipedias, to see how Shaw’s works are read by the younger generation in China selectively, according to contextual circumstances.