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Pop Culture China!
Kevin Latham
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Description for Pop Culture China!
Hardcover. Series: Popular Culture in the Contemporary World. Num Pages: 384 pages, 78. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 261 x 178 x 32. Weight in Grams: 982.
This exciting title in ABC-CLIO's Popular Culture in the Contemporary World series offers the nonspecialist reader the only up-to-date introduction to all facets of popular culture in China. China's release from Maoist austerity has produced an explosion in popular culture. The Chinese have embraced such technologies as television and cell phones and shaped them to their own social context. Understanding modern China requires a thorough knowledge of daily life there. This book presents readers, from high-school and college students to the inquisitive tourist, with that knowledge. The author, a scholar of Chinese culture, draws on his own fieldwork, along ... Read more
This exciting title in ABC-CLIO's Popular Culture in the Contemporary World series offers the nonspecialist reader the only up-to-date introduction to all facets of popular culture in China. China's release from Maoist austerity has produced an explosion in popular culture. The Chinese have embraced such technologies as television and cell phones and shaped them to their own social context. Understanding modern China requires a thorough knowledge of daily life there. This book presents readers, from high-school and college students to the inquisitive tourist, with that knowledge. The author, a scholar of Chinese culture, draws on his own fieldwork, along ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
ABC-CLIO Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Series
Popular Culture in the Contemporary World
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781851095827
SKU
V9781851095827
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About Kevin Latham
Kevin Latham is a lecturer in social anthropology of media at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, England. He has written numerous articles on Chinese media, consumption, and popular culture.
Reviews for Pop Culture China!
This title is highly recommended for academic, public, and high-school libraries.
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This work is recommended for libraries with a collection of Asian studies.
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Booklist
This work is recommended for libraries with a collection of Asian studies.
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