{"product_id":"9781595587565","title":"China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture","description":"\u003cem\u003eChina Pop\u003c\/em\u003e is a highly original and lively look at the ways that contemporary China is changing by Jianying Zha, a critic hailed in \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e as \"incisive, witty and eloquent all at once--a sort of female, Chinese Jonathan Spence.\" From her constant contact (and, in many cases, friendships) with a dynamic group of young novelists, filmmakers, and artists in China, Zha examines a wide range of developments largely unknown to Western readers: the careful planning of television soap operas to placate popular unrest after Tianamen, the growth of the sex tabloid and pornographic industries, the new generation of entrepreneurs successfully bringing to the mainland techniques of Hong Kong and the West, and the politics behind the censorship and commercial success of the film director Chen Kaige (\u003cem\u003eFarewell My Concubine\u003c\/em\u003e) and Zhang Yimou (\u003cem\u003eJu Dou\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRaise the Red Lantern\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eChina Pop\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the twenty-five best books of 1995.\" —\u003cem\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] photographic, a freeze-frame, of a country in rapid motion... [Zha is] a young writer with many arresting ideas and, from the evidence of \u003cem\u003eChina Pop\u003c\/em\u003e, a bright literary future as well.\" —\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Perceptive... What \u003cem\u003eChina Pop\u003c\/em\u003e so brilliantly chronicles is the commercialization of China's cultural world and the anxiety that change is causing in China's intellectuals.\" —\u003cem\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By far the best book on Chinese urban culture after the 1989 Beijing massacre. [Zha] brilliantly combines the eye for detail of an insider with the detached perspective of an outsider. Her lively and graceful style make the book as enjoyable as it is edifying.\" —Perry Link, author of \u003cem\u003eEvening Chats in Beijing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An absorbing and revealing book. With the familiarity of an insider and the ability of an outsider to step back and reflect, Zha... captures the fundamental paradoxes lying at the root of this mutant 'people's republic' in the throes of reform.\" —Orville Schell, author of \u003cem\u003eMandate of Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151259189488,"sku":"9781595587565","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781595587565_p0.jpg?v=1769901726","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781595587565","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}