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Rethinking chinese popular culture: Cannibalizations of the canon

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Rojas, C; Chow, ECY
December 8, 2008

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.

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December 8, 2008

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Rojas, C., & Chow, E. C. Y. (2008). Rethinking chinese popular culture: Cannibalizations of the canon (pp. 1–288). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203886649
Rojas, C., and E. C. Y. Chow. Rethinking chinese popular culture: Cannibalizations of the canon, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203886649.
Rojas, C., and E. C. Y. Chow. Rethinking chinese popular culture: Cannibalizations of the canon. 2008, pp. 1–288. Scopus, doi:10.4324/9780203886649.
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DOI

ISBN

9780415468800

Publication Date

December 8, 2008

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1 / 288