A Study on Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture

by Zhou Xian

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What do the alteration of typical characters in Chinese TV series and the sudden rise of reality show say about the great transformation of Chinese society? How does Chinese avant-garde art, a representative of Chinses elite culture, develop following the social and economic reform? What kind of social psychology has been reflected by the burgeoning internet-based grassroots media in China? Answers all lie in this masterpiece edited by Professor Zhou Xian. Observing Chinese social transformation from the unique perspective of visual culture, the book not only portrays a complete landscape of contemporary Chinese visual culture which covers mass culture, avant-garde art, grassroots media, city image, scopic regime and visual technology, but also reveals the interrelationship between visual culture and the social and individual construction since 1970s.

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Zhou Xian, born in 1954 in Nanjing, professor at Art Institute of Nanjing University and Yangtze River Scholar Distinguished Professor. Specializing in art theory, aesthetics and visual culture, Prof. Zhou Xian is influential in Chinese academia, especially in the area of visual culture. His main works are Critique of Aesthetic Modernity, The Turn of Visual Culture, A Theoretical Journey Across Cultures etc. He was awarded the first and second prizes for his provincial-and-ministerial-level scientific research. Other authors are also professors or associate professors in Nanjing University and Sichuan Normal University. They are expert in art theory, aesthetics, cultural study, literary theory, visual culture etc.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Yilin Press
  • Publication Date October 2017
  • Orginal LanguageChinese simplified
  • ISBN/Identifier 9787544772112
  • Publication Country or regionChina
  • FormatPaperback
  • Primary Price 89 CNY
  • Pages488
  • ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Copyright Year2017

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