Celebrity in China
A well-researched and thought-provoking anthology of academic essays about the creation of public figures in the People's Republic of China.
Celebrity in China
Edited by Louise Edwards and Elaine Jeffreys
Hong Kong University Press. 275 pp
Published: February 2010
Louise Edwards is a professor of modern China studies at the University of Hong Kong.
Her most recent book is Gender, Politics and Democracy: Women's Suffrage in China (2008) and an edited volume with Mina Roces, The Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas (2007).
Elaine Jeffreys is an associate professor in China studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, and a member of the UTS China Research Centre.
She is the author of China, Sex and Prostitution (2004), and editor of China's Governmentalities: Governing Change, Changing Government (2009) and Sex and Sexuality in China (2006).