Book ID: CBB764762150

Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution (2020)

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Gerth, Karl (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 384
Language: English

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. (Publisher)

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Authors & Contributors
James P. Woodard
Gnoinska, Margaret K.
Luman Wang
Yon Sil Yu
Bathsheba Demuth
Remus, Emily
Concepts
Communism
Capitalism
Consumption (Economics)
Economic history
Consumers
International relations
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
Places
China
United States
Soviet Union
Poland
Arctic regions
Atlantic Ocean
Institutions
Apple (firm)
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