Advertising and consumer culture in China
By: Hongmei Li
Series: China today series; China today series (Cambridge, England)
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780745671161; 9780745671178
Subjects: Advertising
Description: This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Chinese advertising as an industry, a discourse and profession in China s search for modernity and cultural globalization. It compares and contrasts the advertising practices of Chinese advertising agencies and foreign advertising agencies, and Chinese brands and foreign brands, with a particular focus on the newest digital advertising practices in the post WTO era. Based on extensive interviews, participant observation, and a critical analysis of secondary data, Li offers an engaging analysis of the transformation of Chinese advertising in the past three decades in Post-Mao China. Drawing upon theories of political economy, media, and cultural studies, her analysis offers most significant insights in advertising and consumer culture as well as the economic, social, political, and cultural transformations in China. The book is essential for students and scholars of communication, media, cultural studies and international business, and all those interested in cultural globalization and China.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Modernity, cultural globalization, and Chinese advertising; title: The development of advertising in China; title: Chinese advertising agencies : dancing with chains?; title: Branding Chinese products : between nationalism and cosmopolitanism; title: Chinese sportswear brand li-ning : selling a cosmo-patriotic image; title: Controversial advertising in China; title: From mass marketing to participatory advertising in the digital age; title: Conclusion and reflection; title: Notes; title: References; title: Index.