Popular China

Author:   Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines Perry Link (University of California, Riverside) ,  Richard P Madsen ,  Professor Paul G Pickowicz (University of California, San Diego)
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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9781299795204


Pages:   327
Publication Date:   01 January 2001
Format:   Electronic book text
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Using ingenious research methods, the contributors to this book explore the search for meaning among ordinary people in China today. The subjects of these vivid essays span the social spectrum from hip young entrepreneurs to sweatshop workers and homeless beggars. The issues are equally diverse, ranging from domestic violence to homosexuality to political corruption. The culture of popular China emerges as a mixture of exhilarating new aspirations as seen in the basketball fans who dream of flying like Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant; rueful cynicism as bitingly conveyed in the many satirical jingles that circulate by word of mouth; and painful ambivalence. The people depicted here have built their popular culture out of ideas and symbolic practices drawn from old cultural traditions, from concepts about modernity debated during the early twentieth-century republican era, from the legacies of Maoist socialism, and from contemporary global culture. Throughout, the book shows how economic and social changes caused by globalization, in combination with the continuing Party dictatorship, have presented ordinary Chinese with a new array of moral and cultural challenges that they have met in ways that have changed the face of China. Contributions by Julia F. Andrews, Anita Chan, Deborah S. Davis, Leila Fernandez-Stembridge, Robert Geyer, Amy Hanser, Richard Levy, Perry Link, Richard P. Madsen, Andrew Morris, Paul G. Pickowicz, Kuiyi Shen, Liping Wang, Li Zhang, Yuezhi Zhao, and Kate Zhou.

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Author:   Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines Perry Link (University of California, Riverside) ,  Richard P Madsen ,  Professor Paul G Pickowicz (University of California, San Diego)
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:  

9781299795204


ISBN 10:   129979520
Pages:   327
Publication Date:   01 January 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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