Contemporary Chinese Celebrities

Moral Transgressions, Rights Defence and Public Concerns

Contemporary Chinese Celebrities

Moral Transgressions, Rights Defence and Public Concerns

Shenshen Cai (Author)

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Whether willingly or unwillingly, public celebrities are often the focus of discussion of moral matters and political causes, but how does this sort of celebrity culture function in a country such as China with a powerful central state? Contemporary Chinese Celebrities explores how in today's China, celebrity figures embody, conflict with and engage with social, civil, moral and economic issues. Shenshen Cai examines the state's governance of celebrity activism and the interplay between the propaganda machine and the stars. Analyzing examples of scandalous celebrities who act as activists in a moral domain which is tightly governed by the state, Cai also studies several sports stars who have emerged in recent years as political activists in China, and their open defiance of the Chinese political system that poses unprecedented challenge to the Party's rule.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Celebrity Culture in Contemporary China
Chapter 2: Scandalous Celebrity, Moral Transgression and Governance in the Sinophone Entertainment World
Chapter 3: Contemporary Chinese Stars: Voicing Concerns about China's Human and Civil Rights as Public Intellectuals
Chapter 4: Sports Stars as Political Activists in Contemporary China
Chapter 5: Female Chinese Celebrities and their Rights-Defending Campaigns

Product details

Published	04 Apr 2024
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	1st
Extent	176
ISBN	9781350409446
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Series	Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Shenshen Cai

Shenshen Cai is Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Mon…

Contemporary Chinese Celebrities is a theoretically informed and fine-grained study of celebrities in China today. Shenshen Cai deals with not just pop stars, sporting celebrities, and consumer influencers, but also with political activists, feminists, satirists, social commentators, environmental critics, and advocates for public health. In brief, this book deals with many of the most sensitive and controversial events that have taken place in China in recent years. This volume will be appreciated by anyone who wants to keep up to date with social and political trends in China.

Anne E. McLaren, University of Melbourne, Australia
This is the definitive book on Chinese celebrity today. With a rare mix of historical insight and sharp contemporary observation, Shenshen Cai shows how China's celebrity culture emerges from ongoing dynamic interactions between politics, publics, moralities and markets. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand pop culture in today's China.

Fran Martin, University of Melbourne, Australia
Cai Shenshen has made a sustained contribution to the study of celebrity in China and Contemporary Chinese Celebrities is further evidence of why we should be mindful of it.

The China Quarterly