China Urban : Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture /
China Urban is an ethnographic account of China's cities and the place that urban space holds in China's imagination. In addition to investigating this nation's rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the 'urban' a...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham [N.C.] :
Duke University Press,
2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Placing practices: transnational network marketing in mainland China / Lyn Jeffery
- Guiding college graduates to work: social constructions of labor markets in Dalian / Lisa Hoffman
- Rock in a hard place: music and the market in nineties Beijing / Robert Efird
- The consuming mother: infant feeding and the feminine body in urban China / Suzanne Z. Gottschang
- Foreign marriage, "tradition," and the politics of border crossings / Constance D. Clark
- Making dream bodies in Beijing: athletes, fashion models, and urban mystique in China / Susan Brownell
- Sex tourism practices on the periphery: eroticizing ethnicity and pathologizing sex on the Lancang / Sandra Teresa Hyde
- Health, wealth, and the good life / Nancy N. Chen
- Railway workers between plan and market / Lida Junghans
- Contesting crime, order, and migrant spaces in Beijing / Li Zhang
- Urbanity, cosmopolitanism, consumption / Louisa Schein
- Xiaxiang for the '90s: the Shanghai TV rural channel and post-Mao urbanity amid global swirl / Tad Ballew
- Face in the crowd: the cultural construction of anonymity in urban China / Ellen Hertz.