03762oam 2200733I 450 991096250420332120251116192810.01-134-51018-70-8153-7456-91-315-88985-41-134-51011-X10.4324/9781315889856 (CKB)2550000001126022(EBL)1434063(OCoLC)860755155(SSID)ssj0001001660(PQKBManifestationID)11555142(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001001660(PQKBWorkID)10968038(PQKB)11728572(OCoLC)868956271(MiAaPQ)EBC1434063(OCoLC)859536822(EXLCZ)99255000000112602220180706d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContemporary Chinese print media cultivating middle-class taste /Yi Zheng1st ed.New York :Routledge,2014.1 online resource (135 p.)Media, culture, and social change in Asia seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-55969-3 1-299-95411-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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<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 Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia SeriesChinese literature20th centuryHistory and criticismChinese literatureSocial aspectsLiterature and societyChinaHistory20th centuryBooks and readingSocial aspectsChinaMiddle class in literatureMiddle classChinaChinese literatureHistory and criticism.Chinese literatureSocial aspects.Literature and societyHistoryBooks and readingSocial aspectsMiddle class in literature.Middle class135Zheng Yi1961-,1228292MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910962504203321Contemporary Chinese print media4484242UNINA