Title:	The Little Emperors’ New Toys A Critical Inquiry into Children and Television in China
Authors:	Zhao, Bin
Keywords:	The Little Emperors’ New Toys
Issue Date:	2013
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	The subtitle of the book – a critical inquiry into children and television in China – should therefore be read as describing a focus for social analysis rather than a narrowly bounded fi e ld of study. The research is concerned not just with children and television, but with the post-Mao era of modernisation characterised by experiments with a capitalist market economy in socialist China, and their links to and impact on the cultural sphere. The ‘inquiry’ is meant to be ‘critical’ for two reasons: fi rstly, it adopts a classical critical perspective, which examines everyday life in relation to wider structural formations and attempts to trace the relationship between the two; secondly, it seeks to develop a critique both of tradition and of reality, including paternalist values, sex taboos, the new ethics of consumerism and possessive individualism, and the ongoing trend towards commercialisation of culture.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/19484
ISBN:	978-3-642-32048-4
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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