Beschreibung:
Richly illustrated with original photographs, this book examines Chinese entertainment ranging from film and opera to rock and tourism, on the mainland and outside it, in the Chinese diaspora. It argues that entertainment, when tied up with history, heritage and ethnicity, is a paradox, in that it is a site of both enjoyment and struggle, both pleasure and suffering. Chinese entertainment gratifies the senses as much as it confronts the mind and the soul.
1. Entertainment: Enjoyment or Struggle? Kwok-bun Chan 2. Chinese Entertainment, Ethnicity and Pleasure Kwok-bun Chan and Sai-Shing Yung 3. Entertaining "Chineseness": Chinese Singing Clubs in Contemporary Bangkok Frederick Lau 4. Performance Context as a Molding Force: Photographic Documentation of Cantonese Opera in Hong Kong Sau Y. Chan 5. Made in China: The Gods Go East Vanessa McLennan-Dodd and Keyan G. Tomaselli 6. Authenticating Geographies and Temporalities: Representations of Chinese Rock in China Joroen De Kloet 7. The Poverty of Tourism under Mobilizational Developmentalism in China Tak-Chuen Luk