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Consuming China Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China
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3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Post-Mao China has been characterized in literature and the media as a burgeoning consumer society. Consuming China investigates this characterization by examining the cultural significance of consumption and consumerism in the People’s Republic of China today. In questioning the notion of consumption, this impressive work suggests that it is not simply a symptom of economic... Read more
1. Introduction: Consumption and Cultural Change in Contemporary China Kevin Latham 2. Conjuring Goods, Identities and Cultures Elisabeth Croll 3. Deception, Corruption and the Chinese Ritual Economy Charles Stafford 4. The Emergence of Consumer Rights: Legal Protection of the Consumer in the PRC Michael Palmer 5. Powers of Imagination: The Role of the Consumer in China's Silent Media Revolution Kevin Latham 6. Changing Tastes in Guangzhou: Restaurant Writings in the late 1990s Jakob Klein 7. On (not) Eating the Dead: Reader's Digest of a Chinese Funerary Taboo Stuart Thompson 8. Images of the Chinese: Photography and Consumerism in 1990s Hangzhou John Bayne 9. Fashions and Feminine Consumption Harriett Evans 10. Wong Kar-wai's Sensuous Histories Luke Robinson 11. The Consuming or the Consumed? Virtual Hmong in China Nicholas Tapp 12. Afterword: Reflections on China, Consumption and Cultural Change Kevin Latham
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Kevin Latham, Stuart Thompson, Jakob Klein
'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
