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Pop Culture China!

Kevin Latham
Pop Culture China Book PDF

Author : Kevin Latham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851095872

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Pop Culture China! by Kevin Latham Pdf

This exciting title in ABC-CLIO's Popular Culture in the Contemporary World series offers the nonspecialist reader the only up-to-date introduction to all facets of popular culture in China. 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 all aspects of Chinese popular culture. The book begins with an introduction to understanding popular culture in China and covers mass media; print media; cinema, film, and video; the Internet; and also discusses the rise of consumption and consumerism. From the modernization of traditional theater to the traditional uses of modern technology, this book presents a guide to the emerging culture of a country that will inevitably become increasingly influential in coming years.

China Pop

Jianying Zha
China Pop Book PDF

Author : Jianying Zha
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781595587565

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China Pop by Jianying Zha Pdf

China Pop is a highly original and lively look at the ways that contemporary China is changing by Jianying Zha, a critic hailed in The Nation as "incisive, witty and eloquent all at once--a sort of female, Chinese Jonathan Spence." From her constant contact (and, in many cases, friendships) with a dynamic group of young novelists, filmmakers, and artists in China, Zha examines a wide range of developments largely unknown to Western readers: the careful planning of television soap operas to placate popular unrest after Tianamen, the growth of the sex tabloid and pornographic industries, the new generation of entrepreneurs successfully bringing to the mainland techniques of Hong Kong and the West, and the politics behind the censorship and commercial success of the film director Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine) and Zhang Yimou (Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern). Praise for China Pop: "One of the twenty-five best books of 1995." —Voice Literary Supplement "[A] photographic, a freeze-frame, of a country in rapid motion... [Zha is] a young writer with many arresting ideas and, from the evidence of China Pop, a bright literary future as well." —New York Times "Perceptive... What China Pop so brilliantly chronicles is the commercialization of China's cultural world and the anxiety that change is causing in China's intellectuals." —Christian Science Monitor "By far the best book on Chinese urban culture after the 1989 Beijing massacre. [Zha] brilliantly combines the eye for detail of an insider with the detached perspective of an outsider. Her lively and graceful style make the book as enjoyable as it is edifying." —Perry Link, author of Evening Chats in Beijing "An absorbing and revealing book. With the familiarity of an insider and the ability of an outsider to step back and reflect, Zha... captures the fundamental paradoxes lying at the root of this mutant 'people's republic' in the throes of reform." —Orville Schell, author of Mandate of Heaven

Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture

Beng Huat Chua
Structure Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture Book PDF

Author : Beng Huat Chua
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789888139033

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Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture by Beng Huat Chua Pdf

East Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Japanese and Korean pop culture as an influential force in the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture embedded in the ethnic Chinese diaspora. Taking Singapore as a locus of pan-Asian Chineseness, Chua Beng Huat provides detailed analysis of the fragmented reception process of transcultural audiences and the processes of audiences’ formation and exercise of consumer power and engagement with national politics. In an era where exercise of military power is increasingly restrained, pop culture has become an important component of soft power diplomacy and transcultural collaborations in a region that is still haunted by colonization and violence. The author notes that the aspirations behind national governments' efforts to use popular culture is limited by the fragmented nature of audiences who respond differently to the same products; by the danger of backlash from other members of the importing country's population that do not consume the popular culture products in question; and by the efforts of the primary consuming country, the People's Republic of China to shape products through co-production strategies and other indirect modes of intervention.

Chinese Fans of Japanese and Korean Pop Culture

Lu Chen
Chinese Fans of Japanese and Korean Pop Culture Book PDF

Author : Lu Chen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315414713

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Chinese Fans of Japanese and Korean Pop Culture by Lu Chen Pdf

How can Japanese popular culture gain numerous fans in China, despite pervasive anti-Japanese sentiment? How is it that there’s such a strong anti-Korean sentiment in Chinese online fan communities when the official Sino-Korean relationship is quite stable before 2016? Avid fans in China are raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding to make gifts to their idols in foreign countries. Tabloid reports on Japanese and Korean celebrities have been known to trigger nationalist protests in China. So, what is the relationship between Chinese fandom of Japanese and Korean popular culture and nationalist sentiment among Chinese youth? Chen discusses how Chinese fans of Japanese and Korean popular culture have formed their own nationalistic discourse since the 1990s. She argues that, as nationalism is constructed from various entangled ideologies, narratives, myths and collective memories, popular culture simply becomes another resource for the construction of nationalism. Fans thus actively select, interpret and reproduce the content of cultural products to suit their own ends. Unlike existing works, which focus on the content of transnational cultural flows in East Asia, this book focuses on the reception and interpretation of the Chinese audience.

Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture

Koichi Iwabuchi,Eva Tsai,Chris Berry
Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture Book PDF

Author : Koichi Iwabuchi,Eva Tsai,Chris Berry
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317285014

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Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture by Koichi Iwabuchi,Eva Tsai,Chris Berry Pdf

Since the 1990s there has been a dramatic increase in cultural flows and connections between the countries in the East Asian region. Nowhere is this more apparent than when looking at popular culture where uneven but multilateral exchanges of Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Hong Kong and Chinese products have led to the construction of an ‘East Asian Popular Culture’. This is both influenced by, and in turn influences, the national cultures, and generates transnational co-production and reinvention. As East Asian popular culture becomes a global force, it is increasingly important for us to understand the characteristics of contemporary East Asian popular culture, and in particular its transnational nature. In this handbook, the contributors theorize East Asian experiences and reconsider Western theories on cultural globalization to provide a cutting-edge overview of this global phenomenon. The Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture will be of great interest to students and scholars of a wide range of disciplines, including: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Communication Studies, Anthropology, Sociology and Asian Studies in general.

Chinese Face/Off

Kwai-Cheung Lo
Chinese Face Off Book PDF

Author : Kwai-Cheung Lo
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9622097537

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Chinese Face/Off by Kwai-Cheung Lo Pdf

Jackie Chan's high-flying stunts, giant pandas, and even the unintentionally hilarious English subtitles that often accompany Hong Kong's films are among the many targets of Kwai-Cheung Lo's in-depth study of Hong Kong popular culture. Drawing on current

Youth Culture in China

Paul Clark
Youth Culture in China Book PDF

Author : Paul Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107016514

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Youth Culture in China by Paul Clark Pdf

Examines youth cultures at three historical points - 1968, 1988 and 2008 - and argues that present-day youth culture in China has international and local roots.

Locating China

Jing Wang
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Author : Jing Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134212279

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Locating China by Jing Wang Pdf

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines the relationship between space and the production of local popular culture in contemporary China. The international team of contributors examine the inter-relationship between the cultural imaginary of a given place and China’s continuing drive towards urbanization. This has led to the development of new spaces and places, and new forms of spatial practices that destabilize old concepts of the ‘local’ and ‘locality’. Delivering ethnographic observations and theoretical speculations, this work furthers our understanding of the link between spatial thinking and the production of consumer culture in China.

Asian Popular Culture

Anthony Y.H. Fung
Asian Popular Culture Book PDF

Author : Anthony Y.H. Fung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134089956

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Asian Popular Culture by Anthony Y.H. Fung Pdf

This book examines different aspects of Asian popular culture, including films, TV, music, comedy, folklore, cultural icons, the Internet and theme parks. It raises important questions such as – What are the implications of popularity of Asian popular culture for globalization? Do regional forces impede the globalizing of cultures? Or does the Asian popular culture flow act as a catalyst or conveying channel for cultural globalization? Does the globalization of culture pose a threat to local culture? It addresses two seemingly contradictory and yet parallel processes in the circulation of Asian popular culture: the interconnectedness between Asian popular culture and western culture in an era of cultural globalization that turns subjects such as Pokémon, Hip Hop or Cosmopolitan into truly global phenomena, and the local derivatives and versions of global culture that are necessarily disconnected from their origins in order to cater for the local market. It thereby presents a collective argument that, whilst local social formations, and patterns of consumption and participation in Asia are still very much dependent on global cultural developments and the phenomena of modernity, yet such dependence is often concretized, reshaped and distorted by the local media to cater for the local market.

Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture

Seok-Kyeong Hong,Dal Yong Jin
Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture Book PDF

Author : Seok-Kyeong Hong,Dal Yong Jin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000351330

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Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture by Seok-Kyeong Hong,Dal Yong Jin Pdf

This book observes and analyzes transnational interactions of East Asian pop culture and current cultural practices, comparing them to the production and consumption of Western popular culture and providing a theoretical discussion regarding the specific paradigm of East Asian pop culture. Drawing on innovative theoretical perspectives and grounded empirical research, an international team of authors consider the history of transnational flows within pop culture and then systematically address pop culture,digital technologies, and the media industry. Chapters cover the Hallyu—or Korean Wave—phenomenon, as well as Japanese and Chinese cultural industries. Throughout the book, the authors address the convergence of the once-separated practical, industrial, and business aspects of popular culture under the influence of digital culture. They further coherently synthesize a vast collection of research to examine the specific realities and practices of consumers that exist beyond regional boundaries, shared cultural identities, and historical constructs. This book will be of interest to academic researchers, undergraduates, and graduate students of Asian media, media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, transcultural communication, or sociology.

Chinese Face/Off

Kwai-Cheung Lo
Chinese Face Off Book PDF

Author : Kwai-Cheung Lo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Hong Kong (China)
ISBN : 0252072286

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Chinese Face/Off by Kwai-Cheung Lo Pdf

Drawing on current concepts of globalisation as well as the theories of Jacques Lacan & Slavoj Zizek, 'Chinese Face/Off' explores the way in which fantasy operates in relation to ethnic & national identity.

China's New Cultural Scene

Marie Claire Huot
China s New Cultural Scene Book PDF

Author : Marie Claire Huot
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0822324458

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China's New Cultural Scene by Marie Claire Huot Pdf

Portrays the ongoing revolution in cultural production that has transformed contemporary life in the People's Republic of China.

East Asian Pop Culture

Beng Huat Chua,Koichi Iwabuchi
East Asian Pop Culture Book PDF

Author : Beng Huat Chua,Koichi Iwabuchi
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9622098924

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East Asian Pop Culture by Beng Huat Chua,Koichi Iwabuchi Pdf

The contributors analyse the subject of Asian pop culture arranged under three headings: 'Television Industry in East Asia', 'Transnational-Crosscultural Receptions of TV Dramas' and 'Nationalistic reactions'.

Global Chinese Cinema

Gary D. Rawnsley,Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley
Global Chinese Cinema Book PDF

Author : Gary D. Rawnsley,Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135281489

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Global Chinese Cinema by Gary D. Rawnsley,Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley Pdf

The film Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou and released in 2002, is widely regarded as the first globally successful indigenous Chinese blockbuster. A big expensive film with multiple stars, spectacular scenery, and astonishing action sequences, it touched on key questions of Chinese culture, nation and politics, and was both a domestic sensation and an international hit. This book explores the reasons for the film’s popularity with its audiences, discussing the factors which so resonated with those who watched the film. It examines questions such as Chinese national unity, the search for cultural identity and role models from China’s illustrious pre-communist past, and the portrayal of political and aesthetic values, and attitudes to gender, sex, love, and violence which are relatively new to China. The book demonstrates how the film, and China’s growing film industry more generally, have in fact very strong international connections, with Western as well as Chinese financing, stars recruited from the East Asian region more widely, and extensive interactions between Hollywood and Asian artists and technicians. Overall, the book provides fascinating insights into recent developments in Chinese society, popular culture and cultural production.

In the Red

Geremie Barmé
In the Red Book PDF

Author : Geremie Barmé
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0231106149

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In the Red by Geremie Barmé Pdf

A leading observer of Chinese literature, society, and politics lifts the veil on the culture wars that have raged between officials and dissidents in the period before and after the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.