TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zhang,Jun
TI  - Driving toward modernity: cars and the lives of the middle class in contemporary China 
SN  - 9781501738425
AV  - HT690.C55 Z43 2019
U1  - 305.5/5095127 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca [New York]
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Middle class
KW  - China
KW  - Guangdong Sheng
KW  - Automobile ownership
KW  - Automobiles
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Economic development
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Possession
KW  - Chine
KW  - Guangdong (Sheng)
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Développement économique
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 21e siècle
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 2000-
KW  - Conditions économiques
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2093045
ER  -