Reinventing Chinese tradition :

Wu, Ka-ming,

Reinventing Chinese tradition : the cultural politics of late socialism / Ka-Ming Wu. - 1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations, maps. - Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium . - Interpretations of culture in the new millennium. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Paper-Cuts in Modern China : The Search for Modernity, Cultural Tradition, and Women's Liberation -- Narrative Battle : Fabricating Folk Paper-Cutting as an Intangible Heritage -- Traditional Revival with Socialist Characteristics : Propaganda Storytelling Turned into Spiritual Service -- Folk Cultural Production with Danwei Characteristics : Folk Storytelling and Public Relations Activities -- Spirit Cults in Yan'an : Surrogate Rural Subjectivity in the Urbanizing Rural -- Glossary.

9780252097997 (e-book)


Communism--Social aspects--China--Yan'an Shi.
Post-communism--Social aspects--China--Yan'an Shi.
Politics and culture--China--Yan'an Shi.
Social change--China--Yan'an Shi.
Ethnology--China--Yan'an Shi.


Yan'an Shi (China)--Politics and government.
Yan'an Shi (China)--Rural conditions.
Yan'an Shi (China)--Social life and customs.


Electronic books.

DS796.Y4 / .W8 2015eb

951/.43