ISBN:
9780700714025
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0700714022
Language:
English
Pages:
VI, 246 S
,
Ill
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24cm
Series Statement:
ConsumAsiaN book series
DDC:
339.470951
Keywords:
1990-2006
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Konsumgesellschaft
;
Weltanschauung
;
Konsumentenverhalten
;
Verbraucherschutz
;
Mediensektor
;
Kultur
;
Mode
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China
;
Consumption Economics China
;
Consumers China
;
Consumer behavior China
;
Social change China
;
China
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
China
;
Konsumgesellschaft
;
Verbraucherverhalten
;
Lebensstil
;
Verbraucherschutz
;
Kulturwandel
Note:
Introduction: consumption and cultural change in contemporary China / Kevin Latham -- Conjuring goods, identities and cultures / Elisabeth Croll -- Deception, corruption and the Chinese ritual economy / Charles Stafford -- The emergence of consumer rights: legal protection of the consumer in the PRC / Michael Palmer -- Powers of imagination: the role of the consumer in China's silent media revolution / Kevin Latham -- Changing tastes in Guangzhou: restaurant writings in the late 1990s / Jakob Klein -- On (not) eating the dead: a reader's digest of a 'Chinese' funerary taboo / Stuart Thompson -- Images of the Chinese: photography and consumerism in 1990s Hangzhou / John Bayne -- Fashions and feminine consumption / Harriet Evans -- Wong Kar-wai's sensuous histories / Luke Robinson -- The consuming or the consumed? virtual Hmong in China / Nicholas Tapp -- Afterword: reflections on China, consumption and cultural change / Kevin Latham
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Formerly CIP
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Enth. 11 Beitr
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Summary: "Post-Mao China has been characterised in the literature and media as a burgeoning consumer society. This work investigates the ways and extent to which this is valid, and applies theories of consumption and consumer culture to Chinese practices."--From source other than the Library of Congress
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