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Consuming China : approaches to cultural change in contemporary China
- Title
- Consuming China : approaches to cultural change in contemporary China / edited by Kevin Latham, Stuart Thompson and Jakob Klein.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
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- Description
- vi, 246 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Post-Mao China has been characterised in the literature and media as a burgeoning consumer society. This work investigates the ways and extent to which this is valid, and applies theories of consumption and consumer culture to Chinese practices."--From source other than the Library of Congress
- Series Statement
- ConsumAsiaN book series
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: consumption and cultural change in contemporary China / Kevin Latham -- Conjuring goods, identities and cultures / Elisabeth Croll -- Deception, corruption and the Chinese ritual economy / Charles Stafford -- The emergence of consumer rights: legal protection of the consumer in the PRC / Michael Palmer -- Powers of imagination: the role of the consumer in China's silent media revolution / Kevin Latham -- Changing tastes in Guangzhou: restaurant writings in the late 1990s / Jakob Klein -- On (not) eating the dead: a reader's digest of a 'Chinese' funerary taboo / Stuart Thompson -- Images of the Chinese: photography and consumerism in 1990s Hangzhou / John Bayne -- Fashions and feminine consumption / Harriet Evans -- Wong Kar-wai's sensuous histories / Luke Robinson -- The consuming or the consumed? virtual Hmong in China / Nicholas Tapp -- Afterword: reflections on China, consumption and cultural change / Kevin Latham.
- Call Number
- JBE 07-853
- ISBN
- 0700714022 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9780203641842 (ebk.)
- 9780700714025 (cased)
- 0203641841 (ebk.)
- LCCN
- 2005027265
- OCLC
- 61879599
- Title
- Consuming China : approaches to cultural change in contemporary China / edited by Kevin Latham, Stuart Thompson and Jakob Klein.
- Imprint
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
- Series
- ConsumAsiaN book series
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Latham, Kevin, 1964-Thompson, Stuart.Klein, Jakob.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 07-853