ISBN:
9780700714025
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (257 p)
Series Statement:
ConsumAsian Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Consuming China : Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China
DDC:
306.30951
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 c
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Consuming China; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Consumption and Cultural Change in Contemporary China; Introduction; Characterizing Chinese Consumption; The Past in the Present: How Revolutionary is China's 'Consumer Revolution'?; China's Consumption in Global Contexts; China, Consumption and Representation; Notes; References; 2 Conjuring Goods, Identities and Cultures; Goods; Identities; Cultural Seduction; Selective Borrowing; Chinese Characteristics; New Characteristics; Notes; References
Description / Table of Contents:
3 Deception, Corruption and the Chinese Ritual EconomyNote; References; 4 The Emergence of Consumer Rights: Legal Protection of the Consumer in the PRC; Introduction; The Emergence of the Consumer; Consumer Rights and Sellers' Duties Under the Consumer Protection Law 1993; Consumer Disputes and Consumer Justice; Conclusions; Notes; References; 5 Powers of Imagination: The Role of the Consumer in China's Silent Media Revolution; Introduction; China's Changing Media; The Launch of New Express; The Consumer at New Express; The Consumer as Reader; The Reader as Consumer
Description / Table of Contents:
The Role of the Consumer in China's Transforming MediaConclusion; Notes; References; 6 Changing Tastes in Guangzhou: Restaurant Writings in the Late 1990s; Dealing with Diversity; Foreign Fare; Regional Restaurants; Conclusion; Notes; References; 7 On (not) Eating the Dead: A Reader's Digest of a 'Chinese' Funerary Taboo; Re(con)sumption After Last (w)rites; Informants' Interpretations; The 'Yellow Tails' Interpretation; The 'Filio-Parental Ambivalence' Interpretation; The 'Retention of Kinship Substance' Interpretation; Resonances and Consuming (on) Good Authority
Description / Table of Contents:
Post-Mortem Re(con)sumption, Post-Modern Palatability: A Cultural AutopsyNotes; References; 8 Images of the Chinese: Photography and Consumerism in 1990s Hangzhou; Initial Observations of Photographic Practices; The Professional Photographer in Communist Urban China; Photographs, People and Society: The Contemporary, the Foreign and the Expensive; Photographs, People and Society: Leisure Pursuits and the Urban; Photographs, People and Society: Gendered Discourses in Photographic Production and Considerations of the 'Photographic Occasion'
Description / Table of Contents:
The Photographic Portrait as Immortalizing 'Souvenir' and Personal PropertyChinese Photography or Photography in China?; Notes; References; 9 Fashions and Feminine Consumption; Questioning Dominant Narratives: Maoist and Market Eras; China and the White West; Hegemonic Meanings?; Notes; References; 10 Wong Kar-wai's Sensuous Histories; Introduction: Hong Kong, Handover and the Problem of National Allegory; Object, Subject, Image; Consuming Senses; Conclusion; Notes; References; Filmography; 11 The Consuming or the Consumed?: Virtual Hmong in China; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Ethnography - Hmong Identity and Transnational Change
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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