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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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