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Encyclopedia of contemporary Chinese culture

Author: Edward L Davis
Publisher: London : New York : Routledge, 2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"'Made in China' has become a tag familiar to all Westerners, but China's shift to a market economy in the early 1980s released not only the industrial but also the vast creative energies of China's citizens to produce a cultural renaissance unique in the contemporary world." "The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture is the first reference book to digest this vast cultural output and make it accessible to  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Wörterbuch
Encyclopedias
Encyclopédies
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Edward L Davis
ISBN: 0415241294 9780415241298 9780415777162 041577716X 9780203645062 0203645065
OCLC Number: 228503278
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."
Description: xxxiv, 786 p. ; 26 cm.
Contents: contemporary culture in Macao; contemporary culture in Singapore; Hong Kong, contemporary culture in; Taiwan, contemporary culture in; agriculture; ancestral/lineage shrines; architects; architectural journals; bridges (new); Buddhist monasteries and temples (Chinese); Buddhist monasteries and temples (Tibetan); cemeteries; churches; cities; community temples (urban and rural); cultural landscapes; cultural zones (urban); danwei (work units); Daoist temples (guan); department stores; development zones (urban); domestic space; foreign enclaves (urban); geography of disease; geography of health care; government architecture; highways (gaosu gonglu); hospitals; hotels; hukou residential permits; Internet cafes; libraries; migration and settlement patterns; monuments; mosques; museums; parks; Pei, I.M.; playgrounds; population (growth and distribution); prisons; Public Security Bureau; Renmin guangchang, Shanghai; residential districts (urban); restaurants; restoration districts (urban); retail and business districts (urban); ring roads; shopping malls; skyscrapers; squares; streets; theme parks; Three Gorges Project, cultural impact of; Tian'an men, Beijing; tombs; towns and townships; train stations; underground dwellings; urban districts; urban planning/renewal; urban settlement patterns; urban transportation patterns; vernacular architecture; village gates; villages; World Heritage Sites; 211 project; academies (Shuyuan: Zhongguo wenhua shuyuan; Yuehu shuyuan; Baihudong shuyuan; Taiwan E-e-hu shuyuan; etc.); Adult Education Institute (Chengren jiaoyu xueyuan); Beijing University; Central Academy of Fine Arts (Zhongyang meishu xueyuan); Central Nationalities Institute (Zhongyang minzu xueyuan); China People's University (Zhongguo renmin daxue); Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhongguo kexue yuan); Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Zhongguo shehui kexue yuan); Chinese University of Hong Kong; Chinese University of Science and Technology (Zhongguo keji daxue); college campus culture; college entrance examinations; Educational system: HK; educational system: PRC; educational system: Singapore; educational system: Taiwan; foreign students; Fudan University; higher education; Hong Kong University; hope project; HSK; intellectuals (and academics); literacy (and illiteracy); Lu Xun Literary Academy; memorization; metropolitan private schools; Ministry of Education; Ministry of Education; Nanjing University; Nankai University; National Defense University (Guofang daxue); national educational standards; Open University (dianshi daxue) and self-paced study and testing; Overseas Chinese University; physical education; Qinghua University; shetuan; student movements; student suicide; studying abroad; Taiwan National University; teaching (training and style); textbooks publishers; The Children's Palace (shaonian-gong); TOEFL (tofu) and GRE; Tsing-hua University, Taiwan; university BBS; village schools; Zhongshan University (Guangzhou); army style (including PLA and Red Guard clothing); beauty magazines; Beijing's silk-ally (xiushui jie); braids; campaign-poster designers; Chan, Amy (designer); Chang, Carole [Yu-ping] (b. 1969, Taiwan); Chen Xiang (designer) (b. 1969, mainland); cheongsam (qipao); chignon; Chinese fashion for foreigners; chukou zuan nei xiao (export reject items); clothing companies; cosmetic surgery; designer brands/labels (Japanese and Western); Dou, Stephane [Teng-huang] (b. 1969, Taiwan); ethnic costumes; fashion shows; graphic design; Guo Pei (designer) (b. 1967, mainland); hair (salons and changing styles); Han Feng designer (b. 1962, Nanjing/New York); He Yong; Hu Ya-chuan (b. 1965, Taiwan); Hung, Sophie (Taiwan); industrial design; interior design; Kitterick Company, Ltd; Lau, Peter; Leung, Charmaine (designer); Li, Ruby (designer); Mao and Sun Yatsen suits; models and modelling; Shanghai tang (and mainland rip-offs); silk industry; Sui, Anna (designer); Sun Jian (designer) (b. 1967, mainland); Tam, Vivienne (designer)
Responsibility: edited by Edward L. Davis.

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Contains nearly 1200 entries that explore a range of diverse and fascinating cultural subjects from prisons to rock groups, underground Christian churches to TV talk shows and radio hotlines. This  Read more...
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