Youth Economy, Crisis, and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China : Morning Sun in the Tiny Times Hardback
by Hui Faye Xiao
Part of the Routledge Contemporary China Series series
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This book surveys the explosive youth culture in twenty-first century China, an active and powerful force catalysing cultural innovations, social changes, and collective efforts, re-inventing a pluralistic and multivalent youth (qingnian) in an age of enormous change, division and uncertainty.
Providing a comprehensive analysis of literary, cinematic, musical, televisual, and social media representations about, for and by disparate youth groups, this book seeks to offer a systematic investigation of a trans-medial and multi-locale youth culture.
In so doing, it examines contributions from high school dropouts, industrial workers, migrant laborers and "leftover women", as well as best-selling writers and filmmakers, cultural entrepreneurs, queer idols and fans, and young feminist activists.
Observing the Chinese youths’ deployment of "small" genres, such as light novels and short videos, in addition to digital media, this book ultimately demonstrates the renewal of cultural forms and the transformative power of networked "small" atomized individuals in reinventing a youthful coalition of silenced, belittled, and marginalized groups.
A thoroughly interdisciplinary study, Youth Economy, Crisis, and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China will be useful to students and scholars of Chinese culture and society, as well as Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies and Media Studies.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:222 pages, 3 Line drawings, black and white; 20 Halftones, black and white; 23 Illustrations, black
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:27/11/2019
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- ISBN:9780367345518
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:222 pages, 3 Line drawings, black and white; 20 Halftones, black and white; 23 Illustrations, black
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:27/11/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367345518
