Contemporary Chinese Print Media: Cultivating Middle Class Taste

ISBN-13: 9780815374565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 124 str.

Zheng Yi

Opis

This book examines the transformations in form, genre, and content of contemporary Chinese print media. It describes and analyses the role of post-reform social stratification in the media, focusing particularly on how the changing practices and institutions of the industry correspond to and accelerate the emergence of a relatively affluent urban leisure-reading market.

Recenzje

"This monograph is interesting for the case analyses it provides and important for breaking ground on this transformative aspect of China's print media. Summing Up: Recommended." - J. A. Lent, independent scholar in CHOICE

Spis treści

Introduction: Taste, Class Culture and the Print Media in Contemporary China  1. Exemplary Tastes, Memories of Class  2. Narrating City, Placing Class  3. Aesthetic-Politics of Prosperity: Romancing the Middle Class  Afterword

O autorze

Yi Zheng is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of From Burke and Wordsworth to the Sublime in Modern Chinese Literature (2011) and co-editor of Travelling Facts: the Construction, Distribution, and Accumulation of Knowledge (2004).