1st Edition

Environmental Advertising in China and the USA The desire to go green

By Xinghua Li Copyright 2016
158 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

Since the late 1980s, green consumerism has been hailed in the West as an efficient solution to environmental problems. However, Chinese consumers have been slow to warm up to eco-friendly products. Consumers prefer SUVs to hybrid cars, health supplements and snake oil medicines to organic foods and eco-fashion is still secluded in high-end designer studios. These choices contradict the findings... Read more

Introduction  1. Morphing The Self: Hybrid Car Advertising  2. Detoxing the Private: Green Home Advertising  3. The "Organi-vore’s" Dilemma: Organic Food Advertising  4. The "Useless" Sustainability: Eco-Fashion Advertising  Conclusion

Biography

Xinghua Li is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Babson College, Massachusetts, USA. She writes about the global spread of consumer capitalism through the perspectives of psychoanalysis, environmental communication, and critical media theory.

In sum, Environmental Advertising in China and the USA is a useful, nuanced, and sometimes frustrating look at the increasingly consumer-driven world of Bgreen^ advertising...the work is essential reading for those with an interest in the nexus of environmentalism, consumerism and advertising in the U. S and China.

- Jonathan Hassid, 2016, Vol.44, No.6 edition of Human Ecology.