Driving toward Modernity : Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in Contemporary China /

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"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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Zhang, Jun, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Middle class.
Economic history.
Economic development.
Automobiles > Social aspects.
Automobile ownership.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Developpement economique > Chine > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Automobiles > Aspect social > Chine > Guangdong (Sheng)
Automobiles > Possession > Chine > Guangdong (Sheng)
Economic development > China > History > 21st century.
Automobiles > Social aspects > China > Guangdong Sheng.
Automobile ownership > China > Guangdong Sheng.
Middle class > China > Guangdong Sheng.
China > Guangdong Sheng.
China.
Chine > Conditions economiques > 2000-
China > Economic conditions > 2000-
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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