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Author:   Kevin Latham (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK) ,  Stuart Thompson (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK) ,  Jakob Klein (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   No. 17
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9780700714025

ISBN 10:   0700714022
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   07 September 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Consumption and Cultural Change in Contemporary China 2. Conjuring Goods, Identities and Cultures 3. Deception, Corruption and the Chinese Ritual Economy 4. The Emergence of Consumer Rights: Legal Protection of the Consumer in the PRC 5. Powers of Imagination: The Role of the Consumer in China's Silent Media Revolution 6. Changing Tastes in Guangzhou: Restaurant Writings in the Late 1990s 7. On (not) Eating the Dead: Reader's Digest of a Chinese Funerary Taboo 8. Images of the Chinese: Photography and Consumerism in 1990s Hangzhou 9. Fashions and Feminine Consumption 10. Wong Kar-wai's Sensuous Histories 11. The Consuming or the Consumed? Virtual Hmong in China 12. Afterword: Reflections on China, Consumption and Cultural Change

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'Consuming China's major contribution is to scholarly discourse on the socio-cultural dynamics and transformative qualitites of post-Mao China's burgeoning consumerism, while at the same time it reminds us ... that the practice of Chinese consumption goes beyond these parameters.' - Beverly Hooper, The China Journal, No 58, July 2007

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