Picture 1 of 1
Calvin Hui The Art of Useless (Paperback) Global Chinese Culture
Another great item from Rarewaves USA | Free delivery!
Condition:
More than 10 available
Postage:
Located in: 60502, United States
Delivery:
Varies
Returns:
Coverage:
Read item description or contact seller for details. See all detailsSee all details on coverage
(Not eligible for eBay purchase protection programmes)
Shop with confidence
Seller information
- 97.7% positive feedback
Registered as a Business Seller
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:234785511714
Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Book Title
- The Art of Useless
- Publication Name
- Art of Useless : Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China
- Title
- The Art of Useless
- Subtitle
- Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0231192495
- EAN
- 9780231192491
- ISBN
- 9780231192491
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Release Year
- 2021
- Release Date
- 21/09/2021
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Series
- Global Chinese Culture Ser.
- Subject Area
- Business & Economics, History, Social Science
- Subject
- Media Studies, Economic History, Modern / 20th Century, Asia / China
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 14 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
About this product
Product Information
The Art of Useless offers an innovative way to understand China's political-economic, social, and cultural transformations, showing how consumer culture helps anticipate, produce, and shape a new middle-class subjectivity. Calvin Hui examines changing representations of the production and consumption of fashion in documentaries and films.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231192495
ISBN-13
9780231192491
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10050068938
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Art of Useless : Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Media Studies, Economic History, Modern / 20th Century, Asia / China
Publication Year
2021
Series
Global Chinese Culture Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Business & Economics, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2020-057649
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Hc430.C6.H85 2021
Reviews
By closely examining a broad selection of documentaries, feature films, and other artistic works and cultural products, Hui illuminates not only the works themselves but also the sociocultural environments that have nurtured these works and in turn been shaped by them. A useful and enlightening perspective on Chinese middle-class consumer culture., A cutting-edge work of cultural studies, this book shines a penetrating light on the rise of a middle class in China. Examining the powers of mass media, film, and fashion industry, Calvin Hui offers us fascinating scenarios and critical insights into how consumerist fantasies raise the pretensions of a status-seeking "bourgeoisie" while opening up dream spaces for alienated labor., The Art of Useless is notable for its innovative methodologies of cultural studies [. . .] The study of social class is an important field, but in China studies, this subject is dominated by sociological methodologies. This book makes a welcome contribution by bringing in humanistic concerns and a cultural studies perspective., [This] book tells a compelling story about the waning of proletarian culture and the rise of middle-class consumer culture., From Never Forget , a 1964 socialist film intent on educating a factory worker who longs for a fancy suit, to the forty dazzling costume changes in 1980's Romance on Lu Mountain , to the white-collar fashion presentations in 2010's Go! Lala Go! , the politics of how one dresses has been a crucial coordinate for navigating cultural identity in contemporary China. In The Art of Useless , Calvin Hui takes us on a fascinating cultural tour that remaps our understanding of the relationship among fashion, politics, and visual culture during an era of unprecedented social transformation., This book will be of great use to anyone exploring consumer culture in China as well as the cultural changes that have taken place in the transition from a socialist to a post-socialist China. It is a must-read for anyone who seeks to understand fashion's role in shaping culture or in understanding the role of consumption in shaping social class., By closely examining a broad selection of documentaries, feature films, and other artistic works and cultural products, Hui illuminates not only the works themselves but also the sociocultural environments that have nurtured these works and in turned been shaped by them. A useful and enlightening perspective on the Chinese middle-class consumer culture., A superbly original study of the media construction of the middle-class sensibility in post-1949 China, Calvin Hui's The Art of Useless demonstrates the indisputable value of Western Marxism and cultural studies in Chinese-language film studies. The ingenious tripartite structure moving from consumption to its underside affords an irresistible riveting read.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Trouble with Naming: Middle-Class Culture, Petty-Bourgeois Sensibility, and Zhuang () 1. Dirty Fashion: Ma Ke's Fashion Exhibit Useless (2007), Jia Zhangke's Documentary Film Useless (2007), and Cognitive Mapping 2. The High-Quality Suit, Class Struggle, and Cultural Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Xie Tieli's Film Never Forget (1964) 3. "Mao's Children Are Wearing Fashion!" Romantic Love, Fashion Consumption, and Modernization Politics in Huang Zumo's Film Romance on Lu Mountain (1980) 4. Imag(in)ing the Chinese Middle-Class Culture: White-Collar Work, Romantic Love, and Fashion Consumption 5. Between Production and Consumption: Chinese Migrant Factory Workers in Documentary Films and Ethnographic Works 6. The Psychic Life of Rubbish: On Wang Jiuliang's Documentary Film Beijing Besieged by Waste (2010) Notes Works Cited Index
Copyright Date
2021
Dewey Decimal
306.30951
Dewey Edition
23
Item description from the seller
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:234785511714
Postage and handling
Item does not ship to United States
Item location:
60502, United States
Post to:
Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, Finland, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.), Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara, Western Samoa, Worldwide, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Excludes:
Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belarus, Bhutan, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Germany, Guadeloupe, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Laos, Libya, Martinique, Mexico, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Reunion, Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Yemen
| Handling time |
|---|
| Will usually post within 7 business days of receiving cleared payment. |
| Taxes |
|---|
| Taxes may be applicable at checkout. Learn moreLearn more about paying tax on eBay purchases. |
Sales Tax for an item #234785511714
Sales Tax for an item #234785511714
Seller collects sales tax for items shipped to the following states:
| State | Sales Tax Rate |
|---|
Return policy
| After receiving the item, contact seller within |
|---|
| 30 days after the buyer receives it |
The buyer is responsible for return postage costs.
Seller feedback (63,166)
s***s (1378)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
Fast Shipping, Great DVDs!
u***u (415)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
Thank you!
e***b (86948)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
Always great - thanks again!!