Popular China Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society,9780742510784

Popular China Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society

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ISBN13: 9780742510784
ISBN10: 0742510786
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-12-18
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

Using ingenious research methods, the contributors to this book explore the search for meaning among ordinary people in China today. The subjects of these vivid essays span the social spectrum from hip young entrepreneurs to sweatshop workers and homeless beggars. The issues are equally diverse, ranging from domestic violence to homosexuality to political corruption. Throughout, the book shows how economic and social changes caused by globalization, in combination with the continuing Party dictatorship, have presented ordinary Chinese with a new array of moral and cultural challenges that have changed the face of China. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(8)
Perry Link
Richard P. Madsen
Paul G. Pickowicz
``I Believe You Can Fly'': Basketball Culture in Postsocialist China
9(30)
Andrew Morris
Corruption in Popular Culture
39(18)
Richard Levy
Village Voices, Urban Activists: Women, Violence, and Gender Inequality in Rural China
57(32)
Paul G. Pickowicz
Liping Wang
Shunkouliu: Popular Satirical Sayings and Popular Thought
89(22)
Perry Link
Kate Zhou
The Rich, the Laid-off, and the Criminal in Tabloid Tales: Read All about It!
111(26)
Yuezhi Zhao
The New Chinese Woman and Lifestyle Magazines in the Late 1990s
137(26)
Julia F. Andrews
Kuiyi Shen
The Culture of Survival: Lives of Migrant Workers through the Prism of Private Letters
163(26)
Anita Chan
The Chinese Enterprising Self: Young, Educated Urbanites and the Search for Work
189(18)
Amy Hanser
Beggars in the Socialist Market Economy
207(24)
Leila Fernandez-Stembridge
Richard P. Madsen
When a House Becomes His Home
231(20)
Deborah S. Davis
In Love and Gay
251(24)
Robert Geyer
Urban Experiences and Social Belonging among Chinese Rural Migrants
275(26)
Li Zhang
Chinese Glossary 301(4)
Index 305(10)
About the Contributors 315

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