Contemporary Chinese Celebrities

Moral Transgressions, Rights Defence and Public Concerns

AvShenshen Cai,Jian Xu

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Whether willingly or unwillingly, public celebrities are often the focus of discussion of moral matters and political causes, but how does this sort of celebrity culture function in a country such as China with a powerful central state? Contemporary Chinese Celebrities explores how in today’s China, celebrity figures embody, conflict with and engage with social, civil, moral and economic issues. Shenshen Cai examines the state’s governance of celebrity activism and the interplay between the propaganda machine and the stars. Analyzing examples of scandalous celebrities who act as activists in a moral domain which is tightly governed by the state, Cai also studies several sports stars who have emerged in recent years as political activists in China, and their open defiance of the Chinese political system that poses unprecedented challenge to the Party’s rule.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-05-02
Mått:154 x 238 x 16 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies
Antal sidor:168
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350409460

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Shenshen Cai is Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Monash University, Australia. Cai is the author of State Propaganda in China’s Entertainment Industry (2016), Television Drama in Contemporary China: Political, Social and Cultural Phenomena (2016), and Contemporary Chinese Films and Celebrity Directors (2017).

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Contemporary Chinese Celebrities is a theoretically informed and fine-grained study of celebrities in China today. Shenshen Cai deals with not just pop stars, sporting celebrities, and consumer influencers, but also with political activists, feminists, satirists, social commentators, environmental critics, and advocates for public health. In brief, this book deals with many of the most sensitive and controversial events that have taken place in China in recent years. This volume will be appreciated by anyone who wants to keep up to date with social and political trends in China.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Introduction: Celebrity Culture in Contemporary ChinaChapter 2: Scandalous Celebrity, Moral Transgression and Governance in the Sinophone Entertainment WorldChapter 3: Contemporary Chinese Stars: Voicing Concerns about China’s Human and Civil Rights as Public Intellectuals Chapter 4: Sports Stars as Political Activists in Contemporary ChinaChapter 5: Female Chinese Celebrities and their Rights-Defending Campaigns