Contemporary Chinese Print Media: Cultivating Middle Class Taste

by Zheng Yi

This book examines the transformations in form, genre, and content of contemporary Chinese print media. It describes and analyses the role of post-reform social stratification in the media, focusing particularly on how the changing practices and institutions of the industry correspond to and accelerate the emergence of a relatively affluent urban leisure-reading market. It argues that this reinvention of Chinese print media vis- -vis the creation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415559693
• ISBN13: 9780415559690
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.4"