Suburban Beijing [electronic resource] : housing and consumption in contemporary China / Friederike Fleischer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleischer, Friederike.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suburban life--China--Wangjing (Beijing).

Suburban life.

Wangjing (Beijing, China)--Social conditions.

Wangjing (Beijing, China).

Wangjing (Beijing, China)--Economic conditions.

Wangjing (Beijing, China)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the last decade of the twentieth century, one of the most fundamental changes in urban China has been the expansion and privatization of housing, with per capita housing space increasing by more than 50 percent. As a result, ordinary citizens in urban China have started to cultivate personal space and have a new incentive to make more money, and wealth is being stratified. Suburban Beijing documents this process, analyzing its underlying forces and its ramifications for redefining the Chinese social landscape. Friederike Fleischer depicts the way Chinese residents in Wangjing, a Beijing sub

Contents:

Transforming suburban life in China

A history of Wangjing : building the suburban industrial zone

Reforming the state sector, opening the private sector : changing the suburban experience

Daily life in Wangjing : from exclusive high-rise to crumbling compound

Socioeconomic differences : emerging market forces, diverging values

Consumption and the geography of space and social status

Social stratification, consumption, and housing.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-7509-0

OCLC:

701704582