Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines the relationship between space and the production of local popular culture in contemporary China. The international team of contributors examine the inter-relationship between the cultural imaginary of a given place and China's continuing drive towards urbanization. This has led to the development of new spaces and places, and new forms of spatial practices that destabilise old concepts of the 'local' and 'locality'.

Delivering ethnographic observations and theoretical speculations, this text furthers our understanding of the link between spatial thinking and the production of consumer culture in China.

About the Author

Jing Wang is S. C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language and Culture at MIT and affiliated faculty with Comparative Media Studies there. She is the founder and organizer of the MIT International Program of Critical Policy Studies of China. She is the author of The Story of Stone (1992) and High Culture Fever (1996); the editor of Chinese Popular Culture and the State (2001), co-editor (with Tani Barlow) of Cinema and Desire (2002). She is working on a book manuscript brand new China: advertising and the production of commercial culture. Currently working on branding and advertising in contemporary China.

Book Information
ISBN 9780415405805
Author Jing Wang
Format Paperback
Page Count 250
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 408g