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UNINA9910962504203321 |
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Autore |
Zheng Yi <1961-> |
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Titolo |
Contemporary Chinese print media : cultivating middle-class taste / / Yi Zheng |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-51018-7 |
0-8153-7456-9 |
1-315-88985-4 |
1-134-51011-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (135 p.) |
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Collana |
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Media, culture, and social change in Asia series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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<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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