Political geography: Literature Review
Expected length of assignment: 6-8 pages
For this assignment you will create an annotated bibliography consisting of 6-10 scholarly references, which you will use to research your popular geopolitics topic. Scholarly or academic references often consist of journal articles or books, written by and for faculty, researchers or scholars. These publications are based on extensive research and supported by the work of other scholarly sources. These are also often peer reviewed, meaning that the publication has been inspected by two or more anonymous subject experts who check facts, methodology and reasoning as well as the quality of writing. An annotated bibliography is a list of sources that you will use to research your project topic. While you may review and read many articles, only annotate those that you will to directly inform research project. For each source you are required to first provide a MLA/APA citation of the source followed by the one to two paragraph annotation. Annotations generally include a summary, assessment and reflection of a reference. Use the following bulleted information as a guide for writing each annotation.
What is this article, report or book about? What research questions does the author pose? Summarize all major arguments or claims.
What data sources were used by this author to answer their research questions or support his or her claims? What major debate(s) does it contribute?
What is the significance or major contributions of this research? Why is it important? How does it relate to other sources that you have reviewed?
Are there any notable issues with this source? Does the argument or support have gaps or problems? Where are their areas for further research or inquiry?
How will you use this source in your own research project? How will it shape your questions or argument? How will it influence how you think about your research topic?
To better understand what kind of information is expected in an annotation, use the following link: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/
My research topic:
How China influence the outside world culturally? How the cultural invasion from China makes difference on our life in US? In present world everything is made in China, and even some American companies are controlled by Chinese stockholder, what is the future of the relationship between US and China in both culture and economy?
Full description of my area of interests:
1)#ChinaOwnsUs: A few days ago when I was watching YouTube videos, an advertisement popped up like usual. The point that caught my eyes is that it includes a video clip of June 4th revolution of China in 1989 (I'm from China so I'm pretty sensitive to these kind of things about China). This video is prohibited in China. The reason is as following: In June 4th of 1989, a revolution started by students made massive chaos in Beijing. They are out of control then the government used armed force to suppress the crowds of students. Then this part of the history has been prohibited in China because the government wants to remove it from the record of history. Nowadays you cannot see this video clips on the documentary by the media in China. So that a lot of young people in China do not know about this part of the history right now. The video wants to explain how China take control of media in order to control the information people got and public consensus. Then I clicked the link of their website. It's "Chinaownsus.com". They have articles, videos and comments about Chinese companies bought some social media like studios in Hollywood, AMC movie theater and so on. So that US is under the risk of "controlled media". AMC's biggest stockholder is Wanda Group from China. So they can decide what they want to introduce to the theater. Wanda also bought a major Hollywood studio "Legendary Entertainment" which has great influence on the production of Hollywood movie. AMC is located all around the US, and it is under the risk of "filtered movie depends on company from China". So in this project, I want to do the research of how company from China influence (no matter they buy American company directly or through the cooperation with American company) the media production of movie and entertainment. What is the future of the relationship between the market of two countries? China used to be colonized but right now is it a kind of cultural invasion to US and other region of the globe? By doing this project, I want to help the readers to understand how enterprises make influence on media and how it is related with politics. And as a Chinese, I want to clear up the questions of media exist between two countries, erase some of the common prejudice and reveal the truth and reality for reader.
REMEMBER: Only scholarly resource will be accepted and popular resource is not qualified!!!