Consuming China - Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China

Zusatztext 'Consuming China's major contribution is to scholarly discourse on the socio-cultural dynamics and transformative qualitites of post-Mao China's burgeoning consumerism! while at the same time it reminds us ... that the "practice of Chinese consumption" goes beyond these parameters.' - Beverly Hooper! The China Journal! No 58! July 2007 Informationen zum Autor Kevin Latham, Stuart Thompson, Jakob Klein Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Thompson Latham
• Assisted by: Jakob Klein (Editor), Klein Jakob (Editor), Kevin Latham (Editor), Latham Kevin (Editor), Stuart Thompson (Editor), Thompson Stuart (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2006
• EAN: 9780700714025
• ISBN: 978-0-7007-1402-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: ConsumAsian Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Regional Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General