Driving toward modernity : cars and the lives of the middle class in contemporary China / Jun Zhang.
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TextPublisher: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781501738425
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- Middle class -- China -- Guangdong Sheng
- Automobile ownership -- China -- Guangdong Sheng
- Automobiles -- Social aspects -- China -- Guangdong Sheng
- China -- Economic conditions -- 2000-
- Economic development -- China -- History -- 21st century
- Automobiles -- Possession -- Chine -- Guangdong (Sheng)
- Automobiles -- Aspect social -- Chine -- Guangdong (Sheng)
- Chine -- Conditions économiques -- 2000-
- Développement économique -- Chine -- Histoire -- 21e siècle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- Automobile ownership
- Automobiles -- Social aspects
- Economic development
- Economic history
- Middle class
- China
- China -- Guangdong Sheng
- Since 2000
- 305.5/5095127 23
- HT690.C55 Z43 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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