"In this imaginative volume, Eric Ma explores the dramatic changes that have transformed southern China over the past twenty years. Ranging widely across cultural sites and artifacts, Ma brilliantly captures the shifting textures of everyday lived experie

"A brilliant study of consumer desire and cultural production in China. Whether writing about TV drama, weddings or jeans, Eric Ma combines acute analysis of changing power relations with a profound respect for people's lived experience." - David Hesmondh

"In this pathbreaking book, Eric Ma portrays realities of social life and symbolic culture at the intersection of differential arcs of modernity between Hong Kong and Mainland China. His finely attuned approach follows translocal experiences from perspect

Eric Kit-wai Ma is professor of journalism and communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.