1st Edition

Visual Culture in Contemporary China I

Edited By Zhou Xian Copyright 2024
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

As the first volume of a two-volume set that examines the interaction between social transformation and visual culture in contemporary China, this book explores the visual construction of popular culture, avant-garde art, and grassroots media culture. Drawing on an approach of Marxist historic materialism and academic resources of sociology, communication, and art, this study of contemporary... Read more
Introduction  1. Popular Cultural Representation and Visual Construction  2. The Visual Representation of Contemporary Avant-Garde Art  4. Grassroots Media Culture and Visual Construction

Biography

Zhou Xian is a distinguished professor at Nanjing University, China. His research interests include cultural studies, aesthetics, and literary theory. His works cover a wide range of topics and he has been published in Chinese, English, and French. His recent publication with Routledge is Cultural Representation and Cultural Studies (forthcoming).