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Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture (Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture) 1st Edition
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Description
This is the first reference book to digest this vast cultural output and make it accessible to the English-speaking world. It contains nearly 1,200 entries written by an international team of specialists, to enable readers to explore a range of diverse and fascinating cultural subjects from prisons to rock groups, underground Christian churches to TV talk shows and radio hotlines. Experimental artists with names such as 'Big-Tailed Elephants' and 'The North-Pole Group' nestle between the covers alongside entries on lotteries, gay cinema, political jokes, sex shops, theme parks, 'New Authoritarians' and 'Little Emperors'.
While the focus of the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture is on mainland China since 1980, it also includes longer, specially commissioned entries on various aspects of contemporary culture in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Including full and up-to-date references for further reading, this is an indispensable reference tool for all teachers and students of contemporary Chinese culture. It will also be warmly embraced as an invaluable source of cultural context by tourists, journalists, business people and others who visit China
ISBN
9780415241298
Publication Date
2009
Publisher
Routledge
Disciplines
Asian History | Chinese Studies | Cultural History
Recommended Citation
Haiwang Yuan. (2009). Socio-Political Values in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture. New York, NY: Routledge.
Comments
Haiwang Yuan joined the Department of Library Public Services at WKU in 1997. A Fulbright student, he received his M.A. and M.L.S. from Indiana University at Bloomington. He is Professor and Web & Emerging Technologies Coordinator, leading the Libraries’ Web & Emerging Technologies Work Group and serves on the Library Leaders Council. He's a member of WKU's Academic Technologies Advisory Group and the WKU Web Council.
This publication contains Socio-Political Values and 25 other entries by Haiwang Yuan.
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