China Pop

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China Pop is a highly original and lively look at the ways that contemporary China is changing. Jianying Zha, hailed by The Nation as "incisive, witty and eloquent all at once," examines a wide range of developments largely unknown to Western readers: the careful planning of television soap operas to placate popular unrest after Tiananmen, the growth of the sex tabloid and porn...(展開全部) China Pop is a highly original and lively look at the ways that contemporary China is changing. Jianying Zha, hailed by The Nation as "incisive, witty and eloquent all at once," examines a wide range of developments largely unknown to Western readers: the careful planning of television soap operas to placate popular unrest after Tiananmen, the growth of the sex tabloid and pornography industries, and the politics of censorship and commercial success of the film directors Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine) and Zhang Yimou (Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern). Review One of the twenty-five best books of 1995. -- Voice Literary Supplement Perceptive. . . What China Pop so brilliantly chronicles is the commercialization of China's cultural world and the anxiety that change is causing in China's intellectuals. -- Christian Science Monitor [A] photograph, a freeze-frame, of a country in rapid motion. . . [Zha is] a young writer with many arresting ideas and, from the evidence of China Pop, a bright literary future as well. -- The New York Times From Publishers Weekly Zha, who was born and raised in Beijing, examines the ways in which the proliferation of pop culture and mass media is changing traditional Chinese society. From The New Yorker This eye-opening book is a breezy and stimulating look at the explosive cultural changes that have followed recent economic reforms in China. From Library Journal As one who fundamentally believes that culture, not economics, will "save" China, Zha (a Chinese journalist who now lives in Chicago and works fo)

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