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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zheng, Yi, 1961- author.

Series:

Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

Media, culture, and social change in Asia series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

Chinese literature--Social aspects.

Literature and society--China--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Books and reading--Social aspects--China.

Books and reading.

Middle class in literature.

Middle class--China.

Middle class.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (135 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 23, 2013).

ISBN:

1-134-51018-7

0-8153-7456-9

1-315-88985-4

1-134-51011-X

9781315889856

OCLC:

860755155