Rethinking Chinese consumption
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20052902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Latham (0000-0003-0415-9353, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Pages | 229-249 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Postsocialism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203428115-18 |
| OpenAlex | W1583389863 |
| ISBN | 9780203428115 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 1 |
The emergence of a wide range of consumer practices alongside the development of markets and capitalism ‘with Chinese characteristics’ has been one of the most evident markers distinguishing China’s post-Mao social landscape from the one that preceded it. The burgeoning literature on post-Mao China has also paid great attention to China’s so-called ‘consumer revolution’ (Davis 2000b; Chao and Myers 1998; Li Conghua 1998; and cf. Latham (forthcoming A). However, more than twenty years into reform, it is clear that one cannot think of either the post-Mao reform period or of its characteristic consumption and consumer practices as unitary and unchanging. In this chapter I argue that it is time to rethink those understandings of China’s consumerism which have seen it as a social palliative, enabling the Party to retain control despite the ideological void left by the demise of Maoism
Social science · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2008 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |