Youth Economy, Crisis, and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China: Morning Sun in the Tiny Times

ISBN-13: 9781032084695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 236 str.

Hui Faye Xiao

Opis

This book surveys the explosive youth culture in twenty-first century China, an active and powerful force catalysing cultural innovations, social changes, and collective efforts, re-inventing a pluralistic and multivalent youth in an age of enormous change, division and uncertainty.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Youth Culture in Three Keys  2. Youth Economy in the "China Dream": Rise of the Me-Generation Creative Class  3. Against the Proletarian Modernity: Retrotopic Journey and Precariat Subject in Alternative Youth Literature  4. Back to Youth on the Wings of Music: Prosthetic Memories and Sonic Nostalgia for an Unlived Past  5. "We Are Creating a Spokesperson for Ourselves": Queering and Un-queering Young Idols on Networked Small Screens  6. Political Economy of Small: Cross-Cultural and Transmedial Shojo Manga (Girls’ Comics) Aesthetics  Conclusion: Reinventing the Discourse of Hope in an Age of Crisis

O autorze

Hui Faye Xiao is Associate Professor and Chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Kansas, USA. Her publications include Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture (2014).