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?
Post-Mao China has been characterised in the literature and the media as a burgeoning consumer society. Consuming China investigates in what ways and ...
China's release from Maoist austerity has produced an explosion in popular culture. The Chinese have embraced such technologies as television and cell phones and shaped them to their own social context. Understanding modern China requires a thorough knowledge of daily life there. This book presents readers, from high-school and college students to the inquisitive tourist, with that knowledge.
The author, a scholar of Chinese culture, draws on his own fieldwork, along with authoritative scholarship and reporting, to give the reader a comprehensive, lively, and accessible introduction to...
China's release from Maoist austerity has produced an explosion in popular culture. The Chinese have embraced such technologies as television and c...
Post-Mao China has been characterized in literature and the media as a burgeoning consumer society. Consuming China investigates this characterization by examining the cultural significance of consumption and consumerism in the People's Republic of China today. In questioning the notion of consumption, this impressive work suggests that it is not simply a symptom of economic reform within China neither a product of the emergence and transformation of contemporary Chinese capitalism. Rather, the essays offer a new perspective on Chinese consumption by focusing on more than just...
Post-Mao China has been characterized in literature and the media as a burgeoning consumer society. Consuming China investigates this char...
This book focuses on the processes of documenting the Beijing Olympics ranging from the visual (television and film) to radio and the written word and the meanings generated by such representations. What were the key stories and how were they chosen? What was dramatised? Who were the heroes? Which clashes were highlighted and how? What sorts of stories did the notion of human interest generate? Did politics take a backseat or was the topic highlighted repeatedly? Thus, the focus was not on the success or failure of this event, but on the ways in which the Olympics Games, as international...
This book focuses on the processes of documenting the Beijing Olympics ranging from the visual (television and film) to radio and the written word ...
