Popular China: Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society

<p>Using ingenious research methods, the contributors to this book explore the search for meaning among ordinary people in China today. The subjects of these vivid essays span the social spectrum from hip young entrepreneurs to sweatshop workers and homeless beggars. The issues are equally diverse, ranging from domestic violence to homosexuality to political corruption. Throughout, the book shows how economic and social changes caused by globalization, in combination with the continuing Party dictatorship, have presented ordinary Chinese with a new array of moral and cultural challenges that have changed the face of China.</p>

Politics & Social Sciences

Andrew Morris

Julia F. Andrews

Richard Levy

Liping Want

Yuezhi Zhao

Kiyi Shen

Anita Chan

Social Sciences

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China

New Lower Price Between 1850 and today, China has undergone an unprecedented series of shocks and transformations. This dramatic period--which has seen urban industrialization, conquest by foreign powers, civil wars, changing governments and, more recently, a gradual opening to the international community--has also marked an explosion of artistic experimentation and innovation. Spanning 150 spectacular years of artistic production, A Century in Crisis offers the first systematic exploration of modern and contemporary Chinese art. Essays by leading scholars show the ways in which Chinese artists have grappled with modernity, tradition, self-definition and the adoption and rejection of Western convention. Sumptuous color plates showcase a dazzling array of achievements--including Shanghai School paintings, modern calligraphy, commercial art, 1920s and 1930s woodblock prints, modern guohua (traditional ink and color paintings), socialist realist paintings and other contemporary works.

Arts & Photography

Kuiyi Shen

History & Criticism

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

<p>Exhibition catalogue to accompany exhibition, Blooming in the Shadows: Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974-1985 which explores artwork created by unofficial art groups at the end of the Cultural Revolution in China</p>

Blooming in the Shadows: Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974 - 1985

Shen, Kuiyi

China Institute Gallery

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