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Youth Economy, Crisis, and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China: Morning Sun in the Tiny Times book cover

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Youth Economy, Crisis, and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China Morning Sun in the Tiny Times

By Hui Faye Xiao Copyright 2020
236 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book surveys the explosive youth culture in twenty-first century China, an active and powerful force catalysing cultural innovations, social changes, and collective efforts, re-inventing a pluralistic and multivalent youth ( qingnian ) in an age of enormous change, division and uncertainty. Providing a comprehensive analysis of literary, cinematic, musical, televisual, and social... Read more

1. Introduction: Youth Culture in Three Keys 

2. Youth Economy in the "China Dream": Rise of the Me-Generation Creative Class 

3. Against the Proletarian Modernity: Retrotopic Journey and Precariat Subject in Alternative Youth Literature 

4. Back to Youth on the Wings of Music: Prosthetic Memories and Sonic Nostalgia for an Unlived Past

5. "We Are Creating a Spokesperson for Ourselves": Queering and Un-queering Young Idols on Networked Small Screens 

6. Political Economy of Small: Cross-Cultural and Transmedial Shojo Manga (Girls’ Comics) Aesthetics 

Conclusion: Reinventing the Discourse of Hope in an Age of Crisis

Biography

Hui Faye Xiao is Associate Professor and Chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Kansas, USA. Her publications include Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture (2014).

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