China Pop is a highly original and lively look at the ways that contemporary China is changing. Jianying
Zha, hailed by The Nation as "incisive, witty and eloquent all at once," examines a wide range
of developments largely unknown to Western readers: the careful planning of television soap operas to placate popular
unrest after Tiananmen, the growth of the sex tabloid and pornography industries, and the politics of censorship
and commercial success of the film directors Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine) and Zhang Yimou (Ju Dou
and Raise the Red Lantern).