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Article: "New Man" and "New Lad" with Chinese Characteristics? Cosmopolitanism, Cultural Hybridity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines in China
Title | "New Man" and "New Lad" with Chinese Characteristics? Cosmopolitanism, Cultural Hybridity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines in China |
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Keywords | China consumerism cosmopolitanism cultural hybridity gender masculinity men's magazines popular culture |
Issue Date | 2012 |
Publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10357823.asp |
Citation | Asian Studies Review, 2012, v. 36 n. 3, p. 345-367 How to Cite? |
Abstract | In China, although "general interest" magazines can be said to have existed during the Maoist and early post-Maoist eras, Western-style magazines that promote a consumerist lifestyle came into being and gained widespread popularity only in the past two decades. Among them, an entire group of titles consists of localised Chinese editions of internationally popular lifestyle magazines. This paper explores the interaction of global trends and influences with local cultures and realities in men's lifestyle magazines published in China. In particular, it discusses the Chinese "variations" of the Western "new man" and "new lad" types of male image. Despite the superficial similarities with Western images, critical readings and quantitative studies of the verbal and visual content of these magazines reveal some distinctive "Chinese" features. As a form of popular culture, the men's lifestyle magazine lends expression to the fantasies, desires and needs of "new rich" men in China. With consumerism and aspirationalism at the centre of its ideological construction, it serves as an interesting site of negotiation between what Lisa Rofel calls the two aspects of "cosmopolitanism with Chinese characteristics" - namely, a self-conscious transcendence of locality and a domestication of cosmopolitanism by way of renegotiating China's place in the world. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/167174 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.2 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.302 |
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dc.contributor.author | Song, G | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Lee, TK | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-09-28T04:04:58Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-09-28T04:04:58Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | Asian Studies Review, 2012, v. 36 n. 3, p. 345-367 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issn | 1035-7823 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/167174 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In China, although "general interest" magazines can be said to have existed during the Maoist and early post-Maoist eras, Western-style magazines that promote a consumerist lifestyle came into being and gained widespread popularity only in the past two decades. Among them, an entire group of titles consists of localised Chinese editions of internationally popular lifestyle magazines. This paper explores the interaction of global trends and influences with local cultures and realities in men's lifestyle magazines published in China. In particular, it discusses the Chinese "variations" of the Western "new man" and "new lad" types of male image. Despite the superficial similarities with Western images, critical readings and quantitative studies of the verbal and visual content of these magazines reveal some distinctive "Chinese" features. As a form of popular culture, the men's lifestyle magazine lends expression to the fantasies, desires and needs of "new rich" men in China. With consumerism and aspirationalism at the centre of its ideological construction, it serves as an interesting site of negotiation between what Lisa Rofel calls the two aspects of "cosmopolitanism with Chinese characteristics" - namely, a self-conscious transcendence of locality and a domestication of cosmopolitanism by way of renegotiating China's place in the world. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. | en_HK |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10357823.asp | en_HK |
dc.relation.ispartof | Asian Studies Review | en_HK |
dc.subject | China | en_HK |
dc.subject | consumerism | en_HK |
dc.subject | cosmopolitanism | en_HK |
dc.subject | cultural hybridity | en_HK |
dc.subject | gender | en_HK |
dc.subject | masculinity | en_HK |
dc.subject | men's magazines | en_HK |
dc.subject | popular culture | en_HK |
dc.title | "New Man" and "New Lad" with Chinese Characteristics? Cosmopolitanism, Cultural Hybridity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines in China | en_HK |
dc.type | Article | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Song, G: gsong@hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Song, G=rp01648 | en_HK |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/10357823.2012.711808 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84865391122 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 215121 | - |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-84865391122&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_HK |
dc.identifier.volume | 36 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issue | 3 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.spage | 345 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.epage | 367 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000307926500003 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Song, G=36127949600 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Lee, TK=55343833400 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1035-7823 | - |