Screen LibraryDriving toward modernity : cars and the lives of the middle class in contemporary China /
"This book explores, ethnographically, the entanglement between the rise of the automotive regime and emergence of the middle class in South China, through which a nuanced picture of China's great transformations is depicted"--
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Cornell University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Ithaca, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This book explores, ethnographically, the entanglement between the rise of the automotive regime and emergence of the middle class in South China, through which a nuanced picture of China's great transformations is depicted"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781501738395 9781501738425 1501738429 9781501738418 1501738410 |
| Index Number: | HT690 |
| CLC: | F426.471 |
| Call Number: | F426.471/Z633 |
| Contents: | Introduction : a mobile lifestyle, a middle way of living -- Prologue : from official privileges to consumer goods : the changing political economy of automobiles -- Driving alone together: sociality, solidarity, and status -- Family cars, filial consumer-citizens : becoming properly middle class -- The emerging middle class and the car market : mobilities and trajectories -- Car crash, class encounter : anxiety of mobility -- Bidding for a license plate : the importance of being a free and proper consumer -- Parking : contesting space in middle-class complexes. |