UID:
edocfu_9961152518902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (135 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-51018-7
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0-8153-7456-9
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1-315-88985-4
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1-134-51011-X
Serie:
Media, culture, and social change in Asia series
Inhalt:
〈P〉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. It argues that this reinvention of Chinese print media vis-à-vis the creation of a post-socialist taste (class) culture is an essential part of the cultural and affective transformations in contemporary Chinese society, and
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: taste, class culture and the print media in contemporary China; Taste, distinction and class; New genres for the new middle-market readers; 1 Exemplary tastes, memories of class: history as cultural source; Post-reform nostalgia and select memories of the past; Recovering the last cultural aristocracy; Yu Qiuyu and the 'Great Cultural Essay'; Elite culture, popular icons and classics in multimillion bestsellers; 2 Narrating city, placing class; Reconfiguration of space as 'fix' and 'niche'
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Writing Shanghai for good taste and affluenceLooking for the Peach Blossom Spring: Chengdu mode; 3 Aesthetic-politics of prosperity: romancing the middle class; White-collar romance; Re-establishing bourgeois and middle-class sentiments; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-55969-3
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-299-95411-1
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9781315889856
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