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Driving toward Modernity Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in Contemporary China / Jun Zhang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zhang, Jun, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development--China--History--21st century.
- Economic development.
- Automobiles--Social aspects--China--Guangdong Sheng.
- Automobiles.
- Automobile ownership--China--Guangdong Sheng.
- Automobile ownership.
- Middle class--China--Guangdong Sheng.
- Middle class.
- China--Economic conditions--2000-.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- AnthropologyIn Driving toward Modernity, Jun Zhang ethnographically explores the entanglement between the rise of the automotive regime and emergence of the middle class in South China. Focusing on the Pearl River Delta, one of the nation's wealthiest regions, Zhang shows how private cars have shaped everyday middle-class sociality, solidarity, and subjectivity, and how the automotive regime has helped make the new middle classes of the PRC. By carefully analyzing how physical and social mobility intertwines, Driving toward Modernity paints a nuanced picture of modern Chinese life, comprising the continuity and rupture as well as the structure and agency of China's great transformation.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Note on Translation
- Introduction: A Mobile Lifestyle, A Middle Way of Living
- Prologue: From Official Privileges to Consumer Goods
- 1. Driving Alone Together: Sociality, Solidarity, and Status
- 2. Family Cars, Filial Consumer-Citizens: Becoming Properly Middle Class
- 3. The Emerging Middle Class and the Car Market: Mobilities and Trajectories
- 4. Car Crash, Class Encounter: Anxiety of Mobility
- 5. Bidding for a License Plate: The Importance of Being a Free and Proper Consumer
- 6. Parking: Contesting Space in Middle-Class Complexes
- Epilogue: Politics of Transformation
- Glossary
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9781501738401
- 1501738402
- 9781501738418
- 1501738410
- OCLC:
- 1057242649
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