A new special issue “Popular Culture in China’s Early Reform Era, 1978-1989” edited by Zhao Ma was published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies in July 2022.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Revisiting popular culture in China’s early reform era, 1978–1989: a historical overview
Zhao Ma
Embodying beauty, desiring the world: dress and fashion in the 1980s’ China
By Yuqian Yan
Between the past and the future: the rise of nationalist discourse at the 1983 CCTV Spring Festival Gala
By Min Wang
Mysterious Buddha, popular cinema, and the new Chinese film culture in the early 1980s
By Li Yang
Airing the Gospel: Christian radio broadcast and multiple narratives in early reform-era China
By Joseph Tse-Hei Lee & Christie Chui-Shan Chow
Selling nationalism: the Hong Kong teleplay the legendary Huo Yuanjia in 1980s Mainland China
By Qi Gai
Teresa Teng and the spread of pop songs in Mainland China in the early reform era
By Dongfeng Tao
Metamorphosis of the dragon: the collectivist reconfiguration of Hong Kong-Taiwan pop in the reform era
By Ling Kang
Moonwalking in Beijing: Michael Jackson, piliwu, and the origins of Chinese hip-hop
By Emily Wilcox
The looks of the 1980s
By Yuqian Yan & Wei Lin
Digital intimacies: friends, lovers and families in contemporary Asia
By Tejaswini Niranjana & Eunsoo Lee
Link to the special issue: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/riac20/current
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