China with a Cut(English, Paperback, Kloet Jeroen de)

Know about the book -

China with a Cut(English, Paperback, Kloet Jeroen de) is written by Kloet Jeroen de and published by Pallas Publications. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9089641629 (ISBN 10) and 9789089641625 (ISBN 13).

In the wake of intense globalisation and commercialisation in the 1990s, China saw the emergence of a vibrant popular culture. Drawing on sixteen years of research, Jeroen de Kloet explores the popular music industry in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai, providing a fascinating history of its emergence and extensive audience analysis, while also exploring the effect of censorship on the music scene in China.China with a Cut pays particular attention to the dakou culture: so named after a cut nicked into the edge to render them unsellable, these illegally imported Western CDs still play most of the tracks. They also played a crucial role in the emergence of the new music and youth culture. De Kloet's impressive study demonstrates how the young Chinese cope with the rapid economic and social changes in a period of intense globalisation, and offers a unique insight into the socio-cultural and political transformations of a rising global power.|Provides insight into the vibrant popular music scene of contemporary China in the context of globalisation and rapid economic and social change.