In the Red. On Contemporary Chinese Culture (repost)
In the Red. On Contemporary Chinese Culture By Geremie R. Barm
Publisher: Columbia University Press 1999 | 512 Pages | ISBN: 0231106149 | PDF | 6 MB
Publisher: Columbia University Press 1999 | 512 Pages | ISBN: 0231106149 | PDF | 6 MB
The author, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University and the author of three books (including Shades of Mao, M.E. Sharpe, 1996), has observed Chinese popular culture for 30 years. His book may seem too long for a work that focuses only on the ten years in China since the 1989 Tiananmen mass protest movement, but it has a swift and lively pace. Barm?'s thesisAthat popular culture has developed ways for people to express dissatisfaction without attacking the governmentAis substantiated through his analyses of music, comic books, television shows, ad jingles, screen savers, and T-shirts.