"With remarkable depth and breadth, China Pop! offers a timely exploration of the intricacies, dynamics, and tensions in Chinese millennial popular culture both within and beyond the national border. In this valuable and fascinating contribution to the limited literature on contemporary Chinese pop culture, Ma convincingly analyzes the duality and dialectics inherent in propaganda, the doubling motif, the aesthetics of the uncanny, the cleaving of Chineseness, and more. A stroke of genius." - Jin Liu, author of Signifying the Local: Media Productions Rendered in Local Languages in Mainland China in the New Millennium