Privatizing China : Socialism from Afar / Aihwa Ong, Li Zhang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ong, Aihwa, editor.

Zhang, Li, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privatization--Social aspects--China--Congresses.

Privatization.

Communism and individualism--China--Congresses.

Communism and individualism.

Socialism--China--Congresses.

Socialism.

Social ethics--China--Congresses.

Social ethics.

China--Social conditions--1976-2000--Congresses.

China.

China--Social conditions--2000---Congresses.

China--Social policy--Congresses.

China--Economic conditions--1976-2000--Congresses.

China--Economic conditions--2000---Congresses.

China--Economic policy--1976-2000--Congresses.

China--Economic policy--2000---Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 society. Covering a vast range of daily life-from homeowner organizations and the users of Internet cafes to self-directed professionals and informed consumers-the essays in Privatizing China create a compelling picture of the burgeoning awareness of self-governing within the postsocialist context. The introduction by Aihwa Ong and Li Zhang presents assemblage as a concept for studying China as a unique postsocialist society created through interactions with global forms. The authors conduct their ethnographic fieldwork in a spectrum of domains-family, community, real estate, business, taxation, politics, labor, health, professions, religion, and consumption-that are infiltrated by new techniques of the self and yet also regulated by broader socialist norms. Privatizing China gives readers a grounded, fine-grained intimacy with the variety and complexity of everyday conduct in China's turbulent transformation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Privatizing China / Ong, Aihwa / Zhang, Li

Part I. Powers of Property

Emerging Class Practices

1. Private Homes, Distinct Lifestyles / Zhang, Li

2. Property Rights and Homeowner Activism in New Neighborhoods / Read, Benjamin L.

Accumulating Land and Money

3. Socialist Land Masters / Hsing, You-tien

4. Tax Tensions / Li, Bei / Sheffrin, Steven M.

Negotiating Neoliberal Values

5. "Reorganized Moralism" / Ngai, Pun

6. Neoliberalism and Hmong/Miao Transnational Media Ventures / Schein, Louisa

Part II. Powers of the Self

Taking Care of One's Health

7. Consuming Medicine and Biotechnology in China / Chen, Nancy N.

8. Should I Quit? Tobacco, Fraught Identity, and the Risks of Governmentality / Kohrman, Matthew

9. Wild Consumption / Zhan, Mei

Managing the Professional Self

10. Post-Mao Professionalism / Hoffman, Lisa M.

11. Self-fashioning Shanghainese / Ong, Aihwa

Search for the Self in New Publics

12. Living Buddhas, Netizens, and the Price of Religious Freedom / Yü, Dan Smyer

13. Privatizing Control / Yongming, Zhou

Afterword / Litzinger, Ralph A.

Notes

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Papers originally presented at a conference held in Shanghai, China, June 27-29, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-270) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-8014-6192-8

OCLC:

732957169