Use these geographic terms for your subject searches in the catalog to find Chinese popular culture resources (e.g., Popular culture - China):
Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture by
Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines the relationship between space and the production of local popular culture in contemporary China. The international team of contributors examine the inter-relationship between the cultural imaginary of a given place and China's continuing drive towards urbanization.
Pop Culture China! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle by
This book begins with an introduction to understanding popular culture in China and covers mass media; print media; cinema, film, and video; the Internet; and also discusses the rise of consumption and consumerism. From the modernization of traditional theater to the traditional uses of modern technology, this book presents a guide to the emerging culture of a country that will inevitably become increasingly influential in coming years.
Popular China by
The culture of popular China emerges as a mixture of exhilarating new aspirations--as seen in the basketball fans who dream of "flying" like Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant; rueful cynicism--as bitingly conveyed in the many satirical jingles that circulate by word of mouth; and painful ambivalence. The people depicted here have built their popular culture out of ideas and symbolic practices drawn from old cultural traditions, from concepts about modernity debated during the early twentieth-century republican era, from the legacies of Maoist socialism, and from contemporary global culture.
Ang Lee's 2000 wuxia (martial arts) film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is credited with popularizing Chinese film, especially martial arts film internationally, grossing over $200 million worldwide. Watch the international trailer below and rent the full film on Amazon or YouTube, or check out the DVD from the library.
The Chinese Cinema Book by 
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema by 
Chinese Animation by The Library collection has limited holdings of Chinese television shows, but you can watch online at the following links:
Chinese Television in the Twenty-First Century by 
TV Drama in China by 
Television in Post-Reform China by C-pop (Chinese popular music) merges Chinese traditional music with a range of influences from the West, from hip hop to jazz to pop ballads. There are 3 main subgenres of C-pop, divided by language: Mandopop (Mandarin), Cantopop (Cantonese), and Minnan pop (Taiwanese Minnan). Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music all have large collections of C-pop available to stream. Check out the Mandopop playlist below, and explore other genres on Spotify or other streaming services.
Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow by 
China with a Cut by 
Listening to China's Cultural Revolution by 
The Library has about 85 Chinese comics, or manhua, in English and Chinese. Webtoons (Chinese webcomics) are also popular in China, following their boom in Korea. Line Webtoon provides access to a range of webtoons from the region in English, Chinese, Korean, Thai, and Indonesian. The English page unfortunately does not indicate where comics are from. For links to Chinese-language webtoon platforms, check out Wikipedia's Manhua page.
Underground comics in China are also self published and sold in print zines in independent shops. Time Out Beijing has a short article about the underground comics scene.
Image: Time Out Beijing
Comics Art in China by 
Mangasia by 
Hong Kong Comics by 
Beijing's Games by 
Women, Sport and Society in Modern China by 
The National Games and National Identity in China by 
Olympic Dreams by 
Chinese Face/off by
The book offers a critical perspective for approaching the question of cultural otherness by problematizing what it means to be Chinese and explaining how Hong Kong popular culture serves as an imaginary screen for its many compatriots seeking to understand what it means to be Chinese in a global age.
Undercurrents by
Explores Hong Kong cultural productions - cinema, fiction, popular music, and subcultural projects - and argues that while there is no overt consolidation of gay and lesbian identities in Hong Kong culture, undercurrents of diverse and complex expressions of gender and sexual variance are widely in evidence. Undercurrents uncovers a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition.
Multimedia Stardom in Hong Kong by
This book elaborates the distinction between multimedia stardom and celebrity, asserting that in Hong Kong stardom has been central in the production and consumption of local media, while demonstrating the importance of multimedia stardom as part of the 'cultural Chinese' mediascape and transnational popular culture from both historical and contemporary contexts.
Envisioning Taiwan by
Yip traces a distinctly Taiwanese sense of self vis-à-vis China, Japan, and the West through two of the island's most important cultural movements: the hsiang-t'u (or "nativist") literature of the 1960s and 1970s, and the Taiwanese New Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s.
Situating Sexualities by
This is the first book in English to analyse the stunning rise to prominence of cultures of dissident sexuality in Taiwan during the 1990s. Positioned at the crossroads of queer theory and postcolonial cultural studies, this book intervenes in current debates on sexuality and globalization to argue that the current emergence of public, dissident sexualities in non-Western locations like Taiwan cannot be reduced to the effects of homogenizing 'Westernization'.
The Minor Arts of Daily Life by
The Minor Arts of Daily Life is an account of the many ways in which contemporary Taiwanese approach their ordinary existence and activities. It presents a wide range of aspects of day-to-day living to convey something of the world as experienced by the Taiwanese themselves.
