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Youth Culture in China: From Red Guards to Netizens
Paul Clark
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Description for Youth Culture in China: From Red Guards to Netizens
paperback. Examines youth cultures at three historical points - 1968, 1988 and 2008 - and argues that present-day youth culture in China has international and local roots. Num Pages: 304 pages, 23 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJF; HBTB; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426. From Red Guards to Netizens. 304 pages, 23 b/w illus. Examines youth cultures at three historical points - 1968, 1988 and 2008 - and argues that present-day youth culture in China has international and local roots. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJF; HBTB; JFSP2. Dimension: 159 x 233 x 17. Weight: 426.
The lives and aspirations of young Chinese (those between 14 and 26 years old) have been transformed in the past five decades. By examining youth cultures around three historical points - 1968, 1988 and 2008 - this book argues that present-day youth culture in China has both international and local roots. Paul Clark describes how the Red Guards and the sent-down youth of the Cultural Revolution era carved out a space for themselves, asserting their distinctive identities, despite tight political controls. By the late 1980s, Chinese-style rock music, sports and other recreations began to influence the identities of Chinese youth, ... Read more
The lives and aspirations of young Chinese (those between 14 and 26 years old) have been transformed in the past five decades. By examining youth cultures around three historical points - 1968, 1988 and 2008 - this book argues that present-day youth culture in China has both international and local roots. Paul Clark describes how the Red Guards and the sent-down youth of the Cultural Revolution era carved out a space for themselves, asserting their distinctive identities, despite tight political controls. By the late 1980s, Chinese-style rock music, sports and other recreations began to influence the identities of Chinese youth, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107602502
SKU
V9781107602502
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About Paul Clark
Paul Clark is a Professor of Chinese at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2008), Reinventing China: A Generation and Its Films (2005) and Chinese Cinema: Culture and Politics since 1949 (Cambridge University Press, 1987).
Reviews for Youth Culture in China: From Red Guards to Netizens
'Employing an interdisciplinary perspective, Paul Clark's impressively researched volume on youth culture in China would be an excellent choice for history, sociology, anthropology or political science classes that incorporate a China component. By taking a forty-year perspective and wisely focusing on the key years of 1968, 1988 and 2008, he is able to trace continuities and contrasts from the Cultural ... Read more