Locating China : Space, Place, and Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415366557 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 235 str.

Jing Wang

Opis

"Locating China" explores the political economy of place, space and popular culture in contemporary China. This multidisciplinary volume examines the mutual articulations between cultural imaginary and China's continuing drive toward urbanization. The consequences of this relationship are shown to be the development of new space and places, and new forms of spatial practices, thus weakening old concepts of the "local" and "locality."
The international group of scholars incorporate theoretical inquiries of space with grounded empirical work on multiple locals throughout China. From village discotheques in Guizhou to tourist villas, tea houses in Hainan to architectural extravaganzas in Shanshen the contributors argue that local places and local cultural practices are not constrained with the local scale. This therefore raises the question - how does the meaning transfer between the local, the national and the global?

Spis treści

Introduction: The Politics and Production of Scales: How Does Geography Matter to Studies of Local, Popular Culture?  1. Land of Living Fossils: Scaling Cultural Prestige in China’s Periphery  2. Regional Formations and Transnational Urbanism in South China  3. The Cultural Landscape of Luxury Housing in South China: A Regional History  4. Identifying China’s Northwest, for Nation and Empire  5. Popularization and Localization: A Local Tabloid Newspaper Market in Transition  6. From Barrooms to Teahouses: Commercial Nightlife in Hainan Since1988  7. Ethno-consumerism as Cultural Production: Making Space for Miao Style  8. Anhui Baomu in Shanghai: Gender, Class, and a Sense of Place  9. The Pornographic City

O autorze

Jing Wang is S. C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language and Culture at MIT and affiliated faculty with Comparative Media Studies there. She is the founder and organizer of the MIT International Program of Critical Policy Studies of China. She is the author of The Story of Stone (1992) and High Culture Fever (1996); the editor of Chinese Popular Culture and the State (2001), co-editor (with Tani Barlow) of Cinema and Desire (2002). She is working on a book manuscript brand new China: advertising and the production of commercial culture. Currently working on branding and advertising in contemporary China.