China online : netspeak and wordplay used by over 700 million Chinese internet users / Véronique Michel ; illustrations by Claude Müller, Sébastien Koval and Marcio Lobo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michel, Véronique, author.

Contributor:

Müller, Claude, illustrator.

Koval, Sebastien, illustrator.

Lobo, Marcio, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--Slang.

Chinese language.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo, Japan ; Rutland, Vermont ; Singapore : Tuttle Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

Text in English and Chinese.

Summary:

Explores how the Internet in China has bred a youth subculture, and identifies the social characteristics of popular "tribes" that represent the diversification of society and their use of shorthand forms and wordplay.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; PART 1 PORTRAITS; China's Internet Boom; Young People in China Today; The "Café Latte" Tribe; The "Moonlight" or "Starlight" Tribe; The "Rush-Rush" Tribe; The "Mortgage Slaves"; The "Returnees from Overseas"; The "Low Carbon Footprint" Tribe; The "Ants" Tribe; The "Strawberry" Tribe; The "Corporate Insects"; The "Crazy Jargon" Tribe; The "Luxury" Tribe; The "Otaku" Tribe; The "Couch Potato" Tribe; The "Thumb" Tribe; The "Flea" Tribe; The "Pressure Cooker" Tribe; The Tuhao or the "No Class Nouveaux Riches"; Men; The "Four Gentlemen" and Modern-Day Men

The "Diamond Bachelor"The "Affordable" Man; The "Three Highs" Man; The "Three Lows" Man; The "Herbivore" Man; The "Phoenix" Man; The "Diligent Bull" Man; The "Perfect" Man; The "Poor" Man; Women; The Historic "Four Beauties" and Modern-Day Women; The "3 No's" Woman; The "Carnivore" Woman; The Shengnu; The "Dried-fish" Woman; The "Peacock" Woman; The "No-No" Woman; The "37°" Woman; The "Perfect" Woman; The DAMA; The "Manly" Woman; Modern-Day Couples; Cupid and the "Three Preconditions"; The Couple from "Only-Child" Families; The "Half Candy" Couple; The "DINK" Couple; The DINKWAD; The DINKEM

The DINSThe New DINKs; The DINK Exit Tribe; PART 2 WORD PLAY: HOW IT REVEALS TODAY'S CHINESE MIND; Chinese Characters and Matters of the Heart; Drawing Characters Creatively: Word-drawings on the Internet; Melodious Homophones; Twisted Meanings; From Common Expression to Advertising Slogan; Chinese Names for Foreign Companies; Magic Numbers, for Texting Addicts and Internet Users; Online Catchphrases; English Loanwords: Mixing Languages; Some Buzzwords in 2013 and 2014; Some Interesting Stories and a Taste of Chinese Humor; Websites & References; Photo Credits; Copyright

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4629-1518-3

OCLC:

904404416