encyclopedia of contemporary chinese culture

[...]... nationalities Dong, culture of ethnic groups, history of ethnicity, concepts of ethnography Hakka, culture of Han Hani, culture of Koreans, culture of Li, culture of Manchus, culture of Miao, culture of minority presses Mongols, culture of Naxi, culture of research institutions for minority nationalities representations of minorities state policies on minority cultures Tai (Dai), culture of Theravada Buddhism... state policies on minority cultures Tai (Dai), culture of Theravada Buddhism among minority groups Tibetan Buddhism among minority groups Tibetans, culture of Tujia, culture of Uighurs (Weiwu’er), culture of Yao, culture of Yi, culture of Zhuang, culture of Fashion and design beauty magazines cashmere industry China dolls clothing industry cosmetic surgery ethnic costume fashion designers fashion designers—diaspora... content of many of the entries, in the choice of recommended readings, in the inclusion of long entries on aspects of the culture of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore and of shorter ones on cultural producers who spent their formative period on the mainland, but now live in the diaspora In this encyclopedia, a single, authorial (editorial) voice has been avoided Writers were encouraged, beyond a statement of. .. reader will therefore find a range of points of view expressed— from cultural boosterism to weary scepticism to moral indignation The anthropologist Liu Xin has recently argued for the development of a sense of the ‘now’ in the PRC and my editorial policy has been to capture this sense of the today-ness of the contemporary This, of course, increases the risk of missing some of the trees in the forest, if... of Chicago Thomas Zimmer Chinese German College, Tongji University, Shanghai Preface When asked by Routledge to contribute to its series of reference books with an Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture, two issues surfaced immediately and have remained in play even as the project has been completed—what should be meant by contemporary and what should be meant by Chinese The first was the... other encyclopedias in the series, some which reach back to WWII and others which even encompass most of the last century, the end of the Cultural Revolution and death of Mao in 1976 set in motion a series of events and sociopolitical transformations of such startling contrast to China’s socialist past that the late 1970s became the natural terminus a quo for a definition of the contemporary The Chinese. .. University of Kansas Jonathan P.J.Stock University of Sheffield Marina Svensson Lunds University Michael Szonyi University of Toronto Tan Hwee-san School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Tang Di Writer and curator, Beijing Tao Hongyin University of California, Los Angeles Alan R.Thrasher University of British Columbia Martine Torfs independent scholar and translator, contemporary Chinese. .. Institute of Technology Lars Laamann School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London John Lagerwey École Pratique des Hautes-Études Stefan Landsberger University of Leiden Kevin Latham School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London Beatrice Leanza CAAW (China Art Archives and Warehouse), Contemporary and Experimental Art Centre, Beijing Joanna C.Lee University of Hong Kong... perspective of, in the words of art historian Wu Hong, ‘observers who look from the outside in’ Aware of the possible usefulness of such an outlook, I first began by heatedly discussing Ned’s original list of names and trends with Qian Zhijian, a fellow graduate student at the Institute of Fine Arts and former editor of the magazine Meishu We decided that we would include only those individuals or groups of. .. University of Hong Kong Lisa M.Hoffman University of Washington David Holm University of Melbourne Hu Mingrong Chongqing Technology and Business University Hu Ying University of California, Irvine Huang Yibing Connecticut College William Jankowiak University of Nevada, Las Vegas Maria Jaschok University of Oxford Lionel M.Jensen University of Notre Dame Jia Wenshan State University of New York at New Paltz . who visit China. Edward L.Davis is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawai’i, USA. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE CULTURE Edited by Edward L.Davis . 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. making the Encyclopedia an indispensable reference tool for all teachers and students of contemporary Chinese culture. It is also likely to be warmly embraced as an invaluable source of cultural