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The Art Of Useless: Fashion, Media, And Consumer Culture In Contemporary China (Global Chinese Culture) - 9780231192491

Name: The Art Of Useless: Fashion, Media, And Consumer Culture In Contemporary China (Global Chinese Culture) - 9780231192491
Brand: Columbia University Press
SKU: 9780231192491
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Author: Calvin Hui
ISBN: 9780231192491

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Author:: Calvin Hui
Publisher:: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:: September 21, 2021
Number of pages:: 280 pages
Language:: English
Binding:: Paperback
ISBN-10:: 0231192495
ISBN-13:: 9780231192491

Overview

The Art of Useless offers an innovative way to understand China's political-economic, social, and cultural transformations, showing how consumer culture helps anticipate, produce, and shape a new middle-class subjectivity. Calvin Hui examines changing representations of the production and consumption of fashion in documentaries and films.