Consuming China
Subtitle: approaches to cultural change in contemporary China
By: edited by Kevin Latham, Stuart Thompson and Jakob Klein.
Contributors: Latham, Kevin, 1964-; Thompson, Stuart.; Klein, Jakob.
Series: ConsumAsiaN book series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; N.Y., NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) -- China; Consumers -- China; Consumer behavior -- China; Social change -- China
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: consumption and cultural change in contemporary China / Kevin Latham; title: Conjuring goods, identities and cultures / Elisabeth Croll; title: Deception, corruption and the Chinese ritual economy / Charles Stafford; title: The emergence of consumer rights: legal protection of the consumer in the PRC / Michael Palmer; title: Powers of imagination: the role of the consumer in China's silent media revolution / Kevin Latham; title: Changing tastes in Guangzhou: restaurant writings in the late 1990s / Jakob Klein; title: On (not) eating the dead: a reader's digest of a Chinese funerary taboo / Stuart Thompson; title: Images of the Chinese: photography and consumerism in 1990s Hangzhou / John Bayne; title: Fashions and feminine consumption / Harriet Evans; title: Wong Kar-Wai's sensuous histories / Luke Robinson; title: The consuming or the consumed? virtual Hmong in China / Nicholas Tapp; title: Afterword: reflections on China, consumption and cultural change / Kevin Latham.