Consuming Literature (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2004-12-01
Förlag
Stanford University Press
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
236 x 159 x 19 mm
Vikt
454 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
10:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Gray Cloth on Creme
ISBN
9780804749398

Consuming Literature

Best Sellers and the Commercialization of Literary Production in Contemporary China

av Shuyu Kong
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2004-12-01
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This book examines the changes taking place in literary writing and publishing in contemporary China under the influence of the emerging market economy. It focuses on the revival of literary best sellers in the Chinese book market and the establishment of a best-seller production machine. The author examines how writers have become cultural entrepreneurs, how state publishing houses are now motivated by commercial incentives, and how second-channel, unofficial publishers and distributors both compete and cooperate with official publishing houses in a dual-track, socialist-capitalist economic system. Taken together, these changes demonstrate how economic development and culture interact in a postsocialist society, in contrast to the way they work in the mature capitalist economies of the West. That economic reforms have affected many aspects of Chinese society is well known, but this is the first comprehensive analysis of market influences in the literary field. This book thus offers a fresh perspective on the inner workings of contemporary Chinese society.
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"Readers will find much to contemplate in Consuming Literature. The book fulfills an important need to understand the changing nature of the Chinese literary publishing field. The first-hand information Kong has gleaned from interviews is invaluable." -- <I>CLEAR</I> "The book's strength lies in the richly detailed analyses based on comprehensive interviews and field research....Kong demonstrates a keen understanding of the intricacy and complexity which characterize the nascent Chinese publishing industry." -- <I>The China Journal</I> "There is no book in English that could serve as a more informative or reliable introduction to the literary scene today" -- <I>China Review International</I>

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Shuyu Kong is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Alberta's Department of East Asian Studies.

Innehållsförteckning

@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii @toc2:Introduction: Commercialization and Literary Best Sellers 000 Chapter 1 Breaking Away: Writers as Cultural Entrepreneurs 000 Chapter 2 Publishing Houses: Creating a Best Seller Machine 000 Chapter 3 "Second Channel": Book Dealers, Agents, and Studios 000 Chapter 4 The Economics of Privacy: Publishing Women's Writing 000 Chapter 5 Translating Foreign Literature: From Elitism to Populism 000 Chapter 6 Literary Journals: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 000 Conclusion: Literature in a Multimedia Millennium 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Glossary 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000

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