Table of Contents

Preface by Patrick D. Murphy Introduction: Cultural Tradition and Popular Culture by Wu Dingbo Lifestyles: Commercialization and Concepts of Choice by Rebecca Weiner Food by E.N. Anderson Tea Drinking and Its Culture by Ione Kramer Religion by Jordan Paper Chinese Herbal Medicine by Hsiao-Hung Lee Sports by Susan E. Brownell Taijiquan and Qigong by J.A. English-Lueck Wushu by Zhang Wei and Tan Xiujun The Chinese Mass Media by Xu Xinyi Film by Wu Dingbo Traditional Chinese Drama by Jiang Xinyun Chinese Gallant Fiction by Cao Zhengwen Chinese Science Fiction by Wu Dingbo Comic Art by John Lent Chinese Calligraphy by Qingxiang Wang Popular Rural Architecture by Ronald G. Knapp Transportation in the People's Republic of China by John Marney Selected Bibliography Index

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Provides a detailed and complete study of various aspects of Chinese popular culture.

About the Author

WU DINGBO is Associate Professor of English at Shanghai International Studies University. A renowned authority on science fiction, his publications include Science Fiction from China: Eight Stories (Praeger Publishers, 1989). PATRICK D. MURPHY is Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor of Staging the Impossible (Greenwood Press, 1992) and the coeditor of Science Fiction from China.

Reviews

?This book is valuable for the general reader who is curious about an aspect of Chinese culture.?- ARBAf95

?This is a badly needed and very useful collection of essays about eighteen areas of Chinese popular culture...?-Journal of Popular Culture

"This book is valuable for the general reader who is curious about an aspect of Chinese culture."- ARBAf95

"This is a badly needed and very useful collection of essays about eighteen areas of Chinese popular culture..."-Journal of Popular Culture