
- 408 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Chronology
- 1 Understanding Popular Culture in China
- 2 Mass Media in China
- 3 Television
- 4 Radio
- 5 Newspapers
- 6 Magazines
- 7 Cinema, Film, and Video
- 8 The Internet and Telecommunications
- 9 Consumption in China
- 10 Leisure Time, Space, and Consumption
- 11 Sports and Martial Arts
- 12 Theatre and Music: Setting the Scene
- 13 Theatre and Performance
- 14 Popular Music
- 15 Afterword: Looking to the Future of Chinese Popular Culture
- Index
- About the Author