Consuming China : approaches to cultural change in contemporary China / edited by Kevin Latham, Stuart Thompson and Jakob Klein.

Other author Latham, Kevin, 1964-
Other author Thompson, Stuart.
Other author Klein, Jakob.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Descriptionvi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesConsumAsiaN book series
ConsumAsiaN book series. ^A381213
Contents 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.
Abstract "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
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005027265
ISBN0700714022 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9780203641842 (ebk.)
ISBN9780700714025 (cased)
ISBN0203641841 (ebk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HC430.C6 C665 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold