Popular China : unofficial culture in a globalizing society

Link, E. Perry (Eugene Perry), 1944- (Added Author). Madsen, Richard, 1941- (Added Author). Pickowicz, Paul. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0742510786 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0742510794 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
ix, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

"I Believe You Can Fly": Basketball Culture in Postsocialist China / Andrew Morris -- Corruption in Popular Culture / Richard Levy -- Village Voices, Urban Activists: Women, Violence, and Gender Inequality in Rural China / Paul G. Pickowicz and Liping Wang -- Shunkouliu: Popular Satirical Sayings and Popular Thought / Perry Link and Kate Zhou -- The Rich, the Laid-off, and the Criminal in Tabloid Tales: Read All about It! / Yuezhi Zhao -- The New Chinese Woman and Lifestyle Magazines in the Late 1990s / Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen -- The Culture of Survival: Lives of Migrant Workers through the Prism of Private Letters / Anita Chan -- The Chinese Enterprising Self: Young, Educated Urbanites and the Search for Work / Amy Hanser -- Beggars in the Sociaist Market Economy / Leila Fernmndez-Stembridge and Richard P. Madsen -- When a House Becomes His Home / Deborah S. Davis -- In Love and Gay / Robert Geyer -- Urban Experiences and Social Belonging among Chinese Rural Migrants / Li Zhang - Chinese glossary.