Jing (Hrsg.) Wang

Locating China

Space, Place, and Popular Culture

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Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines the relationship between space and the production of local popular culture in contemporary China. The international team of contributors examine the inter-relationship between the cultural imaginary of a given place and China's continuing drive towards urbanization. This has led to the development of new spaces and places, and new forms of spatial practices that destabilize old concepts of the 'local' and 'locality'.Delivering ethnographic observations and theoretical speculations, this work furthers our understanding of the link between spatial thinking and the production of consumer… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-134-21227-9
EAN: 9781134212279
Produktnummer: 14828380
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 638 KB
Abbildungen: 4 schwarz-weiße Fotos

Über den Autor

Jing Wang is S. C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language and Culture at MIT and affiliated faculty with Comparative Media Studies there. She is the founder and organizer of the MIT International Program of Critical Policy Studies of China. She is the author of The Story of Stone (1992) and High Culture Fever (1996); the editor of Chinese Popular Culture and the State (2001), co-editor (with Tani Barlow) of Cinema and Desire (2002). She is working on a book manuscript brand new China: advertising and the production of commercial culture. Currently working on branding and advertising in contemporary China.