Author : Carlos Rojas
Release : 2008-12-08
Genre : Literary Collections
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Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture write by Carlos Rojas. This book was released on 2008-12-08. Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and instead argue that the two cultural sensibilities are inextricably bound up with one another. An international line up of contributors present detailed analyses of literary works and other cultural products that have previously been neglected by scholars, while also examining more familiar authors and works from provocative new angles.The essays include investigations into the cultural industries and contexts that produce the canonical and popular, the position of contemporary popular works at the interstices of nostalgia and amnesia, and also the ways in which cultural texts are inflected with gendered and erotic sensibilities while at the same time also functioning as objects of desire in its own right. As the only volume of its kind to cover the entire span of the 20th century, and also to consider the interplay of popular and canonical literature in modern China with comparable rigor, Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture is an important resource for students and scholars of Chinese literature and culture.