Chinese Popular Culture

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"This study will examine the popular culture of the late imperial period in China in comparison with the popular culture of China in the early 1990s.
As imperial power disintegrated at the end of the 19th century in China, the popular culture was thrown into great turbulence. One important difference with respect to the two crises which marked the end of the imperial era (the Boxer Rebellion) and the beginning of the 1990s in China (the Tiananmen massacre) is that the end of the imperial era and the Boxer Rebellion involved intense foreign forces, while the Tiananmen Massacre involved primarily Chinese-against-Chinese forces. This difference in the origins of the two periods is important because of the impact of that difference on the nature of the popular culture of those two periods. The post-imperial era saw remarkable changes ..."

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