China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture

From her contact with a group of young novelists, film-makers and artists in China, Zha examines a wide range of developments largely unknown to Western readers: the planning of soap operas to placate popular unrest after Tiananmen; the growth of the sex tabloid and pornography industries; the new generation of entrepreneurs bringing to the mainland the consumer techniques of Hong Kong and the West; and the politics behind the censorship and commercial success of the film directors Chen Kaige (Farewell my Concubine) and Zhang Yimou (Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern).

• Author
• Jianying Zha, Tranying Zha

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 224

• Publisher
• New Press, The

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781565842502

• Genres
• china, history, cultural

• Release date
• 1996