num_pages: 220
description: Explores the unknown world of Chinese subculturesIdentifies the ways urbanization and post-Tiananmen politics have engendered new "urban tribes" in ChinaOffers insights into the ways independent creatives can find an economic means of survival within the post-socialist economyThis book explores for the first time the punk phenomenon in contemporary China. As China has urbanised within the context of explosive economic growth and a closed political system, urban subcultures and phenomena of alienation and anomie have emerged, and yet, the political and economic differences between China and western societies has ensured these subcultures operate and are motivated by profoundly different structures. This book will be of interest to cultural historians, media studies, urban studies researchers, and (ex-) punk rockers.
  Table of contents (nine chapters)
Introduction: Context, Method, and Theoretical FrameworkPunk in China: History, Artefacts, and BlogsThe Biographical Approach: The Story of a Chinese Punk MusicianThe Path to Punkhood, and Being a PunkPunk Performance, Hangouts, and Alternative NormsBoundaries and Identity: Understanding Online Punk PracticesA Comparison Between Indonesian and Chinese Punks: Resistance, Hangouts, and DIYA Comparison Between Portuguese and Chinese Punks: A Genealogy, Style, and SpaceConclusion
language: English
title: Punk Culture in Contemporary China
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan