| Description |
1 online resource (119 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Media, culture and social change in Asia ; 34
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Media, culture, and social change in Asia series ; 34.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: taste, class culture and the print media in contemporary China -- Exemplary tastes, memories of class. History as cultural sources: postreform nostalgia and select memories of the past -- Narrating city, placing class. Reconfiguration of space as "fix" and "niche" -- Writing Shanghai for good taste and affluence -- Looking for the peach blossom spring: Chengdu mode -- Aesthetic-politics of prosperity: romancing the middle class. White-collar romance -- Re-establishing bourgeois and middleclass sentiments -- Afterword. |
| Summary |
This book examines the transformations in form, genre, and content of contemporary Chinese print media. It describes and analyses the role of post-reform social stratification in the media, focusing particularly on how the changing practices and institutions of the industry correspond to and accelerate the emergence of a relatively affluent urban leisure-reading market. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Chinese literature -- Social aspects.
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Literature and society -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Books and reading -- Social aspects -- China.
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Middle class in literature.
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Middle class -- China.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General. |
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Books and reading -- Social aspects. |
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Chinese literature. |
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Chinese literature -- Social aspects. |
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Literature and society. |
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Middle class. |
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Middle class in literature. |
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China. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zheng, Yi, 1961- Contemporary Chinese print media 9780415559690 (DLC) 2013009582 (OCoLC)377862314 |
| ISBN |
9781134510115 (electronic bk.) |
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113451011X (electronic bk.) |
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9781315889856 (ebook ; alk. paper) |
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1315889854 (e-book) |
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9781315889856 (e-book) |
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1299954111 (ebk.) |
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9781299954113 (ebk.) |
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9780415559690 |
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0415559693 |
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