文档介绍：ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
CONTEMPORARY CHINESE
CULTURE
‘Made in China’ has e a tag familiar to all Westerners, but China’s shift to a
market economy in the early 1980s released not only the industrial but also the vast
creative energies of China’s citizens to produce a cultural renaissance unique in the
contemporary world. In the last quarter-century, communist ideology has been in rapid
retreat and the cultural resources of China’s pre-socialist past have been rediscovered and
combined with current influences from home and abroad to peting
responses to China’s everchanging present.
The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture is the first reference book to
digest this vast cultural output and make it accessible to the English-speaking world. The
Encyclopedia 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 Elephant’ and ‘The Pond
Society’ nestle between the covers alongside entries on lotteries, gay cinema, political
jokes, sex shops, theme parks, ‘New Authoritarians’ and ‘little emperors’. These, as well
as more traditional subjects and biographical entries, are indexed under the following
eighteen categories for easy thematic reference:
● architecture and space
● education
● ethnicity and ethnic identity
● fashion and design
● film
● food and drink
● health
● language
● literature
● media
● music
● performing arts
● political culture
● religion
● society
● sports and recreation
● visual arts
● women and gender
While the focus of the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture is on mainland
China since 1980, the Encyclopedia also includes longer, missioned entries
on various aspects of contemporary culture in Hong Kong and Taiwan. M