Contemporary Chinese Celebrities
eBook - ePub

Contemporary Chinese Celebrities

Moral Transgressions, Rights Defence and Public Concerns

  1. 168 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Contemporary Chinese Celebrities

Moral Transgressions, Rights Defence and Public Concerns

About this book

Whether willingly or unwillingly, public celebrities are often the focus of discussion of moral matters and political causes, but how does this sort of celebrity culture function in a country such as China with a powerful central state? Contemporary Chinese Celebrities explores how in today's China, celebrity figures embody, conflict with and engage with social, civil, moral and economic issues. Shenshen Cai examines the state's governance of celebrity activism and the interplay between the propaganda machine and the stars. Analyzing examples of scandalous celebrities who act as activists in a moral domain which is tightly governed by the state, Cai also studies several sports stars who have emerged in recent years as political activists in China, and their open defiance of the Chinese political system that poses unprecedented challenge to the Party's rule.

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Information

Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781350409460
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781350409453

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1 Introduction: Celebrity culture in contemporary China
  8. 2 Scandalous celebrity and celebrity governance
  9. 3 Celebrity public intellectuals and matters of public concern
  10. 4 Sports celebrity as national and political symbol
  11. 5 Female rights activism in the world of entertainment
  12. 6 Chinese wanghong as public activists
  13. 7 Conclusion
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index
  17. Copyright

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