Pop Culture China! - Media, Arts, and Lifestyle (Hardcover)

This exciting title in ABC-CLIO's Popular Culture in the Contemporary World series offers the nonspecialist reader the only up-to-date introduction to all facets of popular culture in China. China's release from Maoist austerity has produced an explosion in popular culture. The Chinese have embraced such technologies as television and cell phones and shaped them to their own social context. Understanding modern China requires a thorough knowledge of daily life there. This book presents readers, from high-school and college students to the inquisitive tourist, with that knowledge. The author, a scholar of Chinese culture, draws on his own fieldwork, along with authoritative scholarship and reporting, to give the reader a comprehensive, lively, and accessible introduction to all aspects of Chinese popular culture. The book begins with an introduction to understanding popular culture in China and covers mass media; print media; cinema, film, and video; the Internet; and also discusses the rise of consumption and consumerism. From the modernization of traditional theater to the traditional uses of modern technology, this book presents a guide to the emerging culture of a country that will inevitably become increasingly influential in coming years.

General

Imprint:	ABC-CLIO Ltd
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Popular Culture in the Contemporary World
Release date:	July 2007
First published:	August 2007
Authors:	Kevin Latham
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	408
ISBN-13:	978-1-85109-582-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	1-85109-582-9
Barcode:	9781851095827

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