Consuming China : Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China

ISBN-13: 9780700714025 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 246 str.

Kevin Latham; Stuart Thompson; Jakob Klein

Opis

Post-Mao China has been characterised in the literature and the media as a burgeoning consumer society. Consuming China investigates in what ways and to what extent this is a valid characterization of China at the turn of the millennium. The authors question theories of consumption and consumer culture as applied to Chinese practices, asking what, if anything, is particular to China? To what extent are theories of consumption, which have been worked out largely in relation to European and American experiences, relevant for understanding consumption in China?

Recenzje

'Consuming China's major contribution is to scholarly discourse on the socio-cultural dynamics and transformative qualitites of post-Mao China's burgeoning consumerism, while at the same time it reminds us ... that the "practice of Chinese consumption" goes beyond these parameters.' - Beverly Hooper, The China Journal, No 58, July 2007

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Consumption and Cultural Change in Contemporary China  2. Conjuring Goods, Identities and Cultures  3. Deception, Corruption and the Chinese Ritual Economy  4. The Emergence of Consumer Rights: Legal Protection of the Consumer in the PRC  5. Powers of Imagination: The Role of the Consumer in China's Silent Media Revolution  6. Changing Tastes in Guangzhou: Restaurant Writings in the Late 1990s  7. On (not) Eating the Dead: Reader's Digest of a Chinese Funerary Taboo  8. Images of the Chinese: Photography and Consumerism in 1990s Hangzhou  9. Fashions and Feminine Consumption  10. Wong Kar-wai's Sensuous Histories  11. The Consuming or the Consumed? Virtual Hmong in China  12. Afterword: Reflections on China, Consumption and Cultural Change

O autorze

Kevin Latham, Stuart Thompson, Jakob Klein