| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : a mobile lifestyle, a middle way of living -- Prologue : from official privileges to consumer goods : the changing political economy of automobiles -- Driving alone together: sociality, solidarity, and status -- Family cars, filial consumer-citizens : becoming properly middle class -- The emerging middle class and the car market : mobilities and trajectories -- Car crash, class encounter : anxiety of mobility -- Bidding for a license plate : the importance of being a free and proper consumer -- Parking : contesting space in middle-class complexes. |
| Summary |
"This book explores, ethnographically, the entanglement between the rise of the automotive regime and emergence of the middle class in South China, through which a nuanced picture of China's great transformations is depicted"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Middle class -- China -- Guangdong Sheng.
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Middle class. |
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China -- Guangdong Sheng. |
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Automobile ownership -- China -- Guangdong Sheng.
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Automobile ownership. |
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Automobiles -- Social aspects -- China -- Guangdong Sheng.
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Automobiles -- Social aspects. |
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China -- Economic conditions -- 2000-
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China. |
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Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
2000- |
| Subject |
Economic development -- China -- History -- 21st century.
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Economic development. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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Since 2000 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zhang, Jun, 1977- Driving toward modernity. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501738395 (DLC) 2018044262 |
| ISBN |
9781501738425 (electronic book) |
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1501738429 (electronic book) |
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9781501738418 (electronic book) |
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1501738410 (electronic book) |
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9781501738395 |
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