Consumer-Citizens of China The role of foreign brands in the imagined future China

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Hlavní autoři: Tian, Kelly, Dong, Lily
Médium: E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Oxford Routledge 2010
Taylor and Francis
Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group
Vydání:1
Edice:Routledge Contemporary China Series
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ISBN:0415553490, 9780415553490, 9780415854627, 0415854628, 0203840119, 9781136889363, 1136889353, 9781136889356, 9780203840115, 1136889361, 9781136889318, 1136889310
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  • Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Imagining China, imagining brands -- Foreign brands as global brands from the imagined West -- Western and domestic brands as materials for realizing an imagined future China -- Obscured state influence and consumer autonomy -- Organization of the book -- 2 Rethinking popular notions of Chinese consumers' motives for responding to Western brands -- The emulative motive for Western brand consumption -- The patriotic motive for rejecting Western brands -- Rethinking the primacy of the emulative motive for consuming Western brands -- Rethinking "consumer nationalism" as synonymous with Western brand boycotting -- Chinese consumers as active meaning makers -- 3 Highlighted moments in the history of branded goods in China -- The emergence of branded goods in late imperial China -- Branded goods in semi-colonial China of the early 20th century -- Branded goods since gaige kaifang - China's economic reform -- Relevance of these past moments to present-day brand meanings -- 4 Foreign brands in China as global brands from the imagined West -- Overview of research method -- Data collection sites -- Our data collection methods -- Foreign brands as Western brands with distinguishing characteristics -- 5 Chinese national narratives and the meanings of Western brands -- The West as experiential venue, Western brands as instruments of freedom -- The West as imperialist oppressor, Western brands as instruments of domination -- The West as subjugated, conquered Western brands as redemption -- The West as economic partner, Western brands as instruments of economic progress -- 6 National narratives in imaginative processing of Western brand promotions -- Imagined consumption -- Individual psychological processes of enlivening consumption fantasies
  • Narratives and imagined identity transformations from Western brand consumption -- The influence of national narratives of East-West relations on the processing of Western brand promotions -- Discussion -- 7 Citizen-consumers in an age of globalization -- Appendix -- References -- Index