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Privatizing China : Socialism from Afar /

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 soc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ong, Aihwa, Zhang, Li
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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