Privatizing China Contributor(s): Zhang, Li (Editor), Ong, Aihwa (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0801473780 ISBN-13: 9780801473784 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $31.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
Dewey: 338.951 |
LCCN: 2007039503 |
Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.42" W x 9.1" (0.92 lbs) 296 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Zhang, Li: - Li Zhang is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Strangers in the City. |