Egao (恶搞)--defined by the English version of the China Daily in the following terms"[t]he two characters 'e' meaning 'evil' and 'gao' meaning 'work' combine to describe a subculture that is characterized by humor, revelry, subversion, grass-root spontaneity, defiance of authority, mass participation, and multi-media high-tech" (quoted in Gong and Yang 2010)--have been an interesting part of peoples' participation in the creation and dissemination of new media in this country. Particularly interesting to me, however, is how members of minority nationalities have also engaged in this practice. In recent years, Tbtns have begun engaging in a number of media practices that are best defined as egao (and in some cases are explicitly labelled as such). Though I have yet to learn of a Tbtn term for this practice, what were first only really available to people with access to the internet have now been made available to people from all over the plateau thanks to the glories of 3g. In particular, the popular messaging, talking, sharing service WeChat (Ch: weixin) has helped people find access to all the latest in Tbtn egao. Egao can take the form of photos... …or videos (my account will not let me upload video, sorry), a number of which feature scenes from non-Tbtn (Chinese, Indian, American) films and TV series humorously dubbed into Tbtn. A majority of those that I have found have been done in the A mdo dialect (make of that what you will).
Perhaps the most popular video in recent years has been a series of clips from Braveheart that have been dubbed into a hilarious conversation about digging caterpillar fungus. In other clips, scenes from Chinese costume dramas have been overlaid with Tbtn conversations about Break dancing. If you're looking for some videos, check out the following links: The Braveheart one: http://www.56.com/u71/v_NTg5NDQ3MTM.html In an Indian courthouse: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTMzOTYzNDI4.html Foreign news: http://video.baomihua.com/url44721876/24251464 A costume drama: http://hot.mytv365.com/v/20130624/2206458.html Enjoy.
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About TimAs you can see elsewhere on this webpage, I conduct research on ethnic minorities in western China. This blog offers semi-academic musings on the minutiae of daily life out here--the sort of information otherwise destined for footnotes. Categories |