China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the NationHarvard University Asia Center, 2003 - 445 páginas "Chinese people should consume Chinese products!" This slogan was the catchphrase of a movement in early twentieth-century China that sought to link consumption and nationalism by instilling a concept of China as a modern "nation" with its own "national products." From fashions in clothing to food additives, from museums to department stores, from product fairs to advertising, this movement influenced all aspects of China's burgeoning consumer culture. Anti-imperialist boycotts, commemorations of national humiliations, exhibitions of Chinese products, the vilification of treasonous consumers, and the promotion of Chinese captains of industry helped enforce nationalistic consumption and spread the message--patriotic Chinese bought goods made of Chinese materials by Chinese workers in factories owned and run by Chinese. In China Made, Karl Gerth argues that two key forces shaping the modern world--nationalism and consumerism--developed in tandem in China. Early in the twentieth century, nationalism branded every commodity as either "Chinese" or "foreign," and consumer culture became the place where the notion of nationality was articulated, institutionalized, and practiced. Based on Chinese, Japanese, and English-language archives, magazines, newspapers, and books, this first exploration of the historical ties between nationalism and consumerism reinterprets fundamental aspects of modern Chinese history and suggests ways of discerning such ties in all modern nations. |
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... Guangzhou seized a Japanese ship , the Tatsu Maru II , which they believed to be smuggling weapons to anti - Qing revolutionaries.18 To legiti- mize the seizure , these officials had replaced the Japanese flag with a Chi- nese one . The ...
... Guangzhou . Demonstrations in Guang- zhou and Hong Kong against the British and Japanese began in early June and escalated throughout the month . By the third week in June , strikes had spread from longshoremen in Hong Kong to Chinese ...
... Guangzhou . Wu Zhimei ( 1898-1956 ) of Guangzhou went to Nanjing to investigate the various women's organizations operating there and became especially interested in the Women's Na- tional Products Promotion Association ( ) . The ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Elaboration of the Movement 5 Chinese People Ought | 24 |
Nationalizing the Appearance of Men | 68 |
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Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture Jing Wang Pré-visualização limitada - 2010 |