China urban : ethnographies of contemporary culture / edited by Nancy N. Chen ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chen, Nancy N.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--China.

Cities and towns.

Sociology, Urban--China.

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ethnographies of urban China informed by current theoretical concerns.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-321) and index.

ISBN:

9786613062215

9781283062213

1283062216

9780822381334

0822381338

OCLC:

220949991