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

• Autore: Zheng Yi <1961-, >
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (135 p.)
• Disciplina: 135
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Contemporary Chinese print media
• ISBN: 1-134-51018-7; 0-8153-7456-9; 1-315-88985-4; 1-134-51011-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790683203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series