Culture in the Contemporary PRC

by Edited by Michel Hockx , Julia Strauss

• ISBN13: 9780521681247
• ISBN10: 0521681243
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The culture of the People's Republic of China offers a unique blend of the popular, the political and the avant-garde. In no other country in the world are cultural products subjected to such strict censorship and at the same time consumed by such large numbers of people. This volume presents essays by scholars at the cutting edge of Chinese cultural studies, dealing with subjects ranging from advertising to poetry, from rock music to revolutionary museums, providing an authoritative and multi-faceted analysis of some of the world's most complex cultural phenomena.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Editors' Introduction
MICHEL HOCKX AND JULIA STRAUSS	1	(9)
Bourgeois Bohemians in China? Neo-Tribes and the Urban Imaginary
JING WANG	10	(17)
Chinese Cinema in the Age of Advertisement: The Filmmaker as a Cultural Broker
YOMI BRAESTER	27	(16)
Museums, Memorial Sites and Exhibitionary Culture in the People's Republic of China
KIRK A. DENTON	43	(22)
China on the Catwalk: Between Economic Success and Nationalist Anxiety
ANTONIA FINNANE	65	(22)
Popular Music and Youth in Urban China: The Dakou Generation
JEROEN DE KLOET	87	(18)
Reggae on the Silk Road: The Globalization of Uyghur Pop
RACHEL HARRIS	105	(17)
Not Quite Karaoke: Poetry in Contemporary China
MAGHIEL VAN CREVEL	122	(26)
Virtual Chinese Literature: A Comparative Case Study of Online Poetry Communities
MICHEL HOCKX	148	(22)
Urban Consumer Culture
DEBORAH DAVIS	170	(18)
Glossary of Chinese Terms	188	(11)
Index	199