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1 online resource |
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Privatizing China -- Part I. Powers of Property -- Emerging Class Practices -- 1. Private Homes, Distinct Lifestyles -- 2. Property Rights and Homeowner Activism in New Neighborhoods -- Accumulating Land and Money -- 3. Socialist Land Masters -- 4. Tax Tensions -- Negotiating Neoliberal Values -- 5. "Reorganized Moralism" -- 6. Neoliberalism and Hmong/Miao Transnational Media Ventures -- Part II. Powers of the Self -- Taking Care of One's Health -- 7. Consuming Medicine and Biotechnology in China -- 8. Should I Quit? Tobacco, Fraught Identity, and the Risks of Governmentality -- 9. Wild Consumption -- Managing the Professional Self -- 10. Post-Mao Professionalism -- 11. Self-fashioning Shanghainese -- Search for the Self in New Publics -- 12. Living Buddhas, Netizens, and the Price of Religious Freedom -- 13. Privatizing Control -- Afterword -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
Everyday life in China is increasingly shaped by a novel mix of neoliberal and socialist elements, of individual choices and state objectives. This combination of self-determination and socialism from afar has incited profound changes in the ways individuals think and act in different spheres of society. Covering a vast range of daily life--from homeowner organizations and the users of Internet cafes to self-directed professionals and informed consumers--the essays in Privatizing China create a compelling picture of the burgeoning awareness of self-governing within the postsocialist context. The introduction by Aihwa Ong and Li Zhang presents assemblage as a concept for studying China as a unique postsocialist society created through interactions with global forms. The authors conduct their ethnographic fieldwork in a spectrum of domains--family, community, real estate, business, taxation, politics, labor, health, professions, religion, and consumption--that are infiltrated by new techniques of the self and yet also regulated by broader socialist norms. Privatizing China gives readers a grounded, fine-grained intimacy with the variety and complexity of everyday conduct in China's turbulent transformation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
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Communism and individualism -- China -- Congresses.
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Communism and individualism. |
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China. |
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Privatization -- Social aspects -- China -- Congresses.
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Privatization -- Social aspects. |
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Privatization. |
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Social ethics -- China -- Congresses.
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Social ethics. |
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Socialism -- China -- Congresses.
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Socialism. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Ong, Aihwa.
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Zhang, Li.
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| ISBN |
9780801461927 (electronic book) |
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0801461928 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
10.7591/9780801461927 |
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