Fandom, youth and consumption in China

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7524717
AutoresA Fung (0000-0002-5760-9816, Chinese University of Hong Kong, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume12
Fascículo3
Páginas285-303
Data de publicação2009-07-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1367-5494 • E-ISSN: 1460-3551
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1367549409105365
OpenAlexW2145989062
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas26
Referências citadas20

In the wake of globalization and the context of a socialist market economy, youth cultures in China have been undergoing a major transformation. While the youth culture in China has joined the global trend to become more commercialized as a result of emerging values, norms and values of consumption, along with (and going beyond) cultural consumption, liberalizing values have developed among young people which might impinge upon society and politics. Based on a framework of materialistic and non-material labour and an ethnographic study of fandom, this article attempts to investigate the problematic by examining the phenomenon of fandom in China with a case study of the fans of the most popular Chinese singer, Jay Chou, the interaction among which has reflected significant changes in youth culture and youth performativity in China today

China · Conspicuous consumption · Consumption (sociology · Context (archaeology · Economics · Emerging markets · Ethnography · Fandom · Globalization · Materialism · Media studies · Neoliberalism (international relations · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Social science · Sociology · Youth culture · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Sports, Gender, and Society