icon
Image from Google Jackets
Image from OpenLibrary

Unending capitalism : how consumerism negated China's communist revolution / Karl Gerth, University of California, San Diego.

By: Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020Description: 384pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780521868464
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.4/7095109045  23  G384
Summary: "Consumerism and Capitalism Why did a growing number of people in a self-defined socialist country begin to need and want more and more things? This book provides the first history of consumerism during the initial decades after the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949. At the time of the Revolution, consumerism entailed three interrelated processes that had already been underway in China: the mass production of consumer products, the proliferation of a discourse about these products in popular media, and the use of such products to create and communicate identities"-- Provided by publisher.
Item type: كتاب
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Consumerism and Capitalism Why did a growing number of people in a self-defined socialist country begin to need and want more and more things? This book provides the first history of consumerism during the initial decades after the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949. At the time of the Revolution, consumerism entailed three interrelated processes that had already been underway in China: the mass production of consumer products, the proliferation of a discourse about these products in popular media, and the use of such products to create and communicate identities"-- Provided by publisher.