China

Cultural life

General overviews are provided by Caroline Blunden and Mark Elvin, Cultural Atlas of China, rev. ed. (1998); and Wm. Theodore De Bary and Irene Bloom (compilers), Sources of Chinese Tradition, 2nd ed., 2 vol. (1999–2000). Studies of contemporary issues include Claire Huot, China’s New Cultural Scene: A Handbook of Changes (2000; originally published in French, 1994); Julia F. Andrews, Painters and Politics in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1979 (1994); Andrew F. Jones, Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music (1992); and James Riordan and Robin Jones (eds.), Sport and Physical Education in China (1999). Lynn White Benjamin Elman