Youth Culture in China - From Red Guards to Netizens

Informationen zum Autor Paul Clark is a Professor of Chinese at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2008), Reinventing China: A Generation and Its Films (2005) and Chinese Cinema: Culture and Politics since 1949 (Cambridge University Press, 1987). Klappentext Examines youth cultures at three historical points - 1968, 1988 and 2008 - and argues that present-day youth culture in China has international and local roots. Zusammenfassung Paul Clark examines today's youth culture phenomena – centred on music, fashions and distinct spaces (both real and virtual) for the young - and traces their roots to three historical points - 1968, 1988 and 2008. In doing so, he argues that present-day youth culture in China has both international and local roots. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Finding youth in China; 2. Marking out new spaces: Red Guards, education youth, and opening up; 3. Bodies: undressed, fashioned, admired, and moving; 4. Rhythms: the soundtracks of connection and assertion; 5. Spaces: real, imagined, and virtual arenas; 6. Consuming identities.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Clark, Paul (University of Auckland) Clark
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2012
• EAN: 9781107602502
• ISBN: 978-1-107-60250-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; China, History, Sociology, HISTORY / Asia / General, Politics & government, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Age groups: adolescents