Punk Culture in Contemporary China

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Xiao, Jian (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Ethnology-Asia.; Urban economics.; Cultural policy.; Asia-Politics and government.; Asian Culture.; Urban Economics.; Cultural Policy and Politics.; Asian Politics.

This book explores for the first time the punk phenomenon in contemporary China. As China has urbanised within the context of explosive economic growth and a closed political system, urban subcultures and phenomena of alienation and anomie have emerged, and yet, the political and economic difference...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: context, method and theoretical framework
• 2. Punk in China: History, artefacts, and blogs
• 3. The biographical approach: The story of a Chinese punk musician
• 4. The path to punkhood, and being a punk
• 5. Punk performance, hangouts, and alternative norms
• 6. Boundaries and identity: Understanding online punk practices
• 7. A comparison between Indonesian and Chinese punks: Resistance, hangouts, and DIY
• 8. A comparison between Portuguese and Chinese punks: A genealogy, style and space
• 9. Conclusion.