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Author Kong, Shuyu

Title Consuming literature : best sellers and the commercialization of literary production in contemporary China / Shuyu Kong
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 241 pages)
Contents Breaking Away: Writers as Cultural Entrepreneurs -- Publishing Houses: Creating a Best Seller Machine -- "Second Channel": Book Dealers, Agents, and Studios -- The Economics of Privacy: Publishing Women's Writing -- Translating Foreign Literature: From Elitism to Populism -- Literary Journals: Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- Conclusion: Literature in a Multimedia Millennium
Summary Shuyu Kong examines the changes taking place in literary writing & publishing in contemporary China under the influence of the emerging market economy. The author focuses on the revival of literary best sellers in the Chinese book market & the establishment of a best-seller production machine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and index
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Subject Publishers and publishing -- China
Booksellers and bookselling -- China
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing.
Booksellers and bookselling
Publishers and publishing
Kommerzialisierung
Literaturproduktion
Literatur
China
China
Chinesisch.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004017604
ISBN 1423716574
9781423716570
0804767378
9780804767378
Other Titles Best sellers and the commercialization of literary production in contemporary China