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"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zhang, Jun, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Since 2000
Middle class > China > Guangdong Sheng.
Automobile ownership > China > Guangdong Sheng.
Automobiles > Social aspects > China > Guangdong Sheng.
Economic development > China > History > 21st century.
Automobiles > Possession > Chine > Guangdong (Sheng)
Automobiles > Aspect social > Chine > Guangdong (Sheng)
Développement économique > Chine > Histoire > 21e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Automobile ownership
Automobiles > Social aspects
Economic development
Economic history
Middle class
China > Economic conditions > 2000-
Chine > Conditions économiques > 2000-
China
China > Guangdong Sheng
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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