Description
Examines youth cultures at three historical points - 1968, 1988 and 2008 - and argues that present-day youth culture in China has international and local roots.
About the Author
Paul Clark is a Professor of Chinese at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2008), Reinventing China: A Generation and Its Films (2005) and Chinese Cinema: Culture and Politics since 1949 (Cambridge University Press, 1987).
Reviews
'Employing an interdisciplinary perspective, Paul Clark's impressively researched volume on youth culture in China would be an excellent choice for history, sociology, anthropology or political science classes that incorporate a China component. By taking a forty-year perspective and wisely focusing on the key years of 1968, 1988 and 2008, he is able to trace continuities and contrasts from the Cultural Revolution period down to the present. Examining both academic journals intended for specialists and popular journals intended for the youth themselves, and offering quite detailed accounts of the most important cultural events in the three periods and their larger social influence, Clark has produced a book that will be become a standard and much-cited work in the China studies field.' Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California
'In Youth Culture in China, Paul Clark makes a bold attempt to rethink the Cultural Revolution, by placing it in the wider context of China's emerging youth culture, between the early 1960s and the Olympic year of 2008. The result is an original and provocative book.' Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern China
Book Information
ISBN 9781107602502
Author Paul Clark
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 420g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm * 16mm