Youth Economy, Crisis, and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China: Morning Sun in the Tiny Times Contributor(s): Xiao, Hui Faye (Author) |
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ISBN: 036734551X ISBN-13: 9780367345518 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Family & Relationships | Life Stages - Adolescence - Literary Criticism | Asian - Chinese |
Dewey: 305.235 |
LCCN: 2019043306 |
Series: Routledge Contemporary China |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.10 lbs) 222 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |