Consuming China (eBook, PDF)

Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China
Redaktion: Latham, Kevin; Klein, Jakob; Thompson, Stuart

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on case studies from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, this extraordinary volume affords a greater understanding of the practice of Chinese consumerism and consumption in the People's Republic of China today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135791445
• Artikelnr.: 38262195

Autorenporträt

Kevin Latham, Stuart Thompson, Jakob Klein

Inhaltsangabe

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