Chinese popular culture is extremely diverse and richly complex. The 18 chapters in this reference provide the most current and comprehensive bibliographical and descriptive study of Chinese popular culture in English. The chapters, each devoted to a particular topic, are written by expert contributors who offer comprehensive surveys of research materials and discuss the most important points of critical interest. The opening chapters of the book discuss the complexity of the Chinese cultural tradition and the relationship between popular culture and Chinese civilization. The chapters that follow are devoted to particular topics that reflect key elements of Chinese popular culture, such as tea drinking, literature, and religion. The chapters generally discuss the history of the topic, review current research in the field, evaluate available reference sources and research collections, and present bibliographic information.
Chinese popular culture is extremely diverse and richly complex. The 18 chapters in this reference provide the most current and comprehensive bibliographical and descriptive study of Chinese popular culture in English. The chapters, each devoted to a particular topic, are written by expert contributors who offer comprehensive surveys of research materials and discuss the most important points of critical interest. The opening chapters of the book discuss the complexity of the Chinese cultural tradition and the relationship between popular culture and Chinese civilization. The chapters that follow are devoted to particular topics that reflect key elements of Chinese popular culture, such as tea drinking, literature, and religion. The chapters generally discuss the history of the topic, review current research in the field, evaluate available reference sources and research collections, and present bibliographic information.
Preface by Patrick D. Murphy
Introduction: Cultural Tradition and Popular Culture by Wu
Dingbo
Lifestyles: Commercialization and Concepts of Choice by Rebecca
Weiner
Food by E.N. Anderson
Tea Drinking and Its Culture by Ione Kramer
Religion by Jordan Paper
Chinese Herbal Medicine by Hsiao-Hung Lee
Sports by Susan E. Brownell
Taijiquan and Qigong by J.A. English-Lueck
Wushu by Zhang Wei and Tan Xiujun
The Chinese Mass Media by Xu Xinyi
Film by Wu Dingbo
Traditional Chinese Drama by Jiang Xinyun
Chinese Gallant Fiction by Cao Zhengwen
Chinese Science Fiction by Wu Dingbo
Comic Art by John Lent
Chinese Calligraphy by Qingxiang Wang
Popular Rural Architecture by Ronald G. Knapp
Transportation in the People's Republic of China by John Marney
Selected Bibliography
Index
Provides a detailed and complete study of various aspects of Chinese popular culture.
WU DINGBO is Associate Professor of English at Shanghai
International Studies University. A renowned authority on science
fiction, his publications include Science Fiction from China: Eight
Stories (Praeger Publishers, 1989).
PATRICK D. MURPHY is Professor of English at Indiana University of
Pennsylvania. He is the editor of Staging the Impossible (Greenwood
Press, 1992) and the coeditor of Science Fiction from China.
?This book is valuable for the general reader who is curious about
an aspect of Chinese culture.?- ARBAf95
?This is a badly needed and very useful collection of essays about
eighteen areas of Chinese popular culture...?-Journal of Popular
Culture
"This book is valuable for the general reader who is curious about
an aspect of Chinese culture."- ARBAf95
"This is a badly needed and very useful collection of essays about
eighteen areas of Chinese popular culture..."-Journal of Popular
Culture
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