'Celebrity in China represents a welcome and original intervention in the field of celebrity studies. Given that much of the scholarship on celebrity and stardom has taken Western celebrity culture as its focus, it is exciting to see a collection that dep

'This excellent collection of essays on China's celebrities is at once an entertaining read and a serious study on the political economy of superstar culture. Many on the list of the famous and infamous are surprising picks, which shows the editors' fun-s

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).