Driving toward modernity : cars and the lives of the middle class in contemporary China /
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...
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| Typ dokumentu: | Kniha |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2019]
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Driving toward Modernity : cars and the lives of the middle class in contemporary China |
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- 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