Handbook of Chinese Popular Culture

Chinese popular culture is extremely diverse and richly complex. The 18 chapters in this reference provide the most comprehensive and current bibliographical and descriptive study of Chinese popular culture in English. Each chapter, written by an expert contributor, provides a thorough survey of research materials and an overview of the most significant points of critical conce...

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Chinese popular culture is extremely diverse and richly complex. The 18 chapters in this reference provide the most comprehensive and current bibliographical and descriptive study of Chinese popular culture in English. Each chapter, written by an expert contributor, provides a thorough survey of research materials and an overview of the most significant points of critical concern. The extensive closing bibliography provides references for topics not treated in the volume.

WU DINGBO is Associate Professor of English at Shanghai International Studies University. A renowned authority on science fiction, his publications include Science Fiction from China: Eight Stories (Praeger Publishers, 1989).

PATRICK D. MURPHY is Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor of Staging the Impossible (Greenwood Press, 1992) and th...

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WU DINGBO is Associate Professor of English at Shanghai International Studies University. A renowned authority on science fiction, his publications include Science Fiction from China: Eight Stories (Praeger Publishers, 1989).

PATRICK D. MURPHY is Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor of Staging the Impossible (Greenwood Press, 1992) and the coeditor of Science Fiction from China.

Preface vii
1 - Introduction 1
2 - Lifestyles 9
3 - Food 35
4 - Tea Drinking and Its Culture Ione Kramer 55
5 - Religion 77
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Preface vii
1 - Introduction 1
2 - Lifestyles 9
3 - Food 35
4 - Tea Drinking and Its Culture Ione Kramer 55
5 - Religion 77
Bibliography 89
6 - Chinese Herbal Medicine 93
Notes 107
7 - Sports 113
Bibliography 131
8 - Taijiquan and Qigong 137
Bibliography 150
9 - Wushu 155
Bibliography 168
10 - The Chinese Mass Media 169
Bibliography 191
11 - Film 197
Bibliography 212
12 - Traditional Chinese Drama 215
Bibliography 234
13 - Chinese Gallant Fiction 237
Bibliography 254
14 - Chinese Science Fiction 257
Note 275
Bibliography 275
15 - Comic Art 279
16 - Chinese Calligraphy 307
Bibliography 325
17 - Popular Rural Architecture 327
Bibliography 339
18 - Transportation in The People's Republic of China 347
Bibliography 359
Selected Bibliography 361
Index 397
Contributors 407
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