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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790683203321

Autore

Zheng Yi <1961-, >

Titolo

Contemporary Chinese print media : cultivating middle-class taste / / Yi Zheng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-134-51018-7

0-8153-7456-9

1-315-88985-4

1-134-51011-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (135 p.)

Collana

Media, culture, and social change in Asia series

Disciplina

135

Soggetti

Chinese literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Chinese literature - Social aspects

Literature and society - China - History - 20th century

Books and reading - Social aspects - China

Middle class in literature

Middle class - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: taste, class culture and the print media in contemporary China; Taste, distinction and class; New genres for the new middle-market readers; 1 Exemplary tastes, memories of class: history as cultural source; Post-reform nostalgia and select memories of the past; Recovering the last cultural aristocracy; Yu Qiuyu and the 'Great Cultural Essay'; Elite culture, popular icons and classics in multimillion bestsellers; 2 Narrating city, placing class; Reconfiguration of space as 'fix' and 'niche'

Writing Shanghai for good taste and affluenceLooking for the Peach Blossom Spring: Chengdu mode; 3 Aesthetic-politics of prosperity: romancing the middle class; White-collar romance; Re-establishing bourgeois and middle-class sentiments; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

<P>This book examines the transformations in form, genre, and content of contemporary Chinese print media. It describes and analyses the role of post-reform social stratification in the media, focusing particularly on how the changing practices and institutions of the industry correspond to and accelerate the emergence of a relatively affluent urban leisure-reading market. It argues that this reinvention of Chinese print media vis-à-vis the creation of a post-socialist taste (class) culture is an essential part of the cultural and affective transformations in contemporary Chinese society, and

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910481476803321

Autore

Lascaris Constantine <1434-1501?.>

Titolo

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Pubbl/distr/stampa

Italy, : [s.n.], 1501

Descrizione fisica

Online resource ([294] c., 4º)

Altri autori (Persone)

SeverusSulpicius

Cyprian, Saint

GiustinianiLeonardo <approximately 1388-1446.>

Seduliusactive 5th century

JuvencusGaius Vettius Aquilinus

ManuzioAldo <1449 or 1450-1515.>

Lingua di pubblicazione

Greco antico

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.