Consuming China approaches to cultural change in contemporary China
Consuming China approaches to cultural change in contemporary China
- London Routledge 2006
- vi,246p. 24 cm.
- ConsumAsiaN book series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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
9780700714025
2005027265
GBA1Z8864 bnb
007035629 Uk
Consumption (Economics)--China.
Consumers--China.
Consumer behavior--China.
Social change--China.
HC430.C6 / C665 2006
339.470951 / CO-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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
9780700714025
2005027265
GBA1Z8864 bnb
007035629 Uk
Consumption (Economics)--China.
Consumers--China.
Consumer behavior--China.
Social change--China.
HC430.C6 / C665 2006
339.470951 / CO-