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UNINA9910781251003321 |
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Privatizing China : Socialism from Afar / / Aihwa Ong, Li Zhang |
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Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2011] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (292 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Privatization - Social aspects - China |
Communism and individualism - China |
Socialism - China |
Social ethics - China |
China Social conditions 1976-2000 Congresses |
China Social conditions 2000- Congresses |
China Social policy Congresses |
China Economic conditions 1976-2000 Congresses |
China Economic conditions 2000- Congresses |
China Economic policy 1976-2000 Congresses |
China Economic policy 2000- Congresses |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Papers originally presented at a conference held in Shanghai, China, June 27-29, 2004. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-270) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Privatizing China / Ong, Aihwa / Zhang, Li -- Part I. Powers of Property -- Emerging Class Practices -- 1. Private Homes, Distinct Lifestyles / Zhang, Li -- 2. Property Rights and Homeowner Activism in New Neighborhoods / Read, Benjamin L. -- Accumulating Land and Money -- 3. Socialist Land Masters / Hsing, You-tien -- 4. Tax Tensions / Li, Bei / Sheffrin, Steven M. -- Negotiating Neoliberal Values -- 5. "Reorganized Moralism" / Ngai, Pun -- 6. Neoliberalism and Hmong/Miao Transnational Media Ventures / Schein, Louisa -- Part II. Powers of the Self -- Taking Care of One's Health -- 7. Consuming Medicine and Biotechnology in China / Chen, Nancy N. -- 8. Should I |
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Quit? Tobacco, Fraught Identity, and the Risks of Governmentality / Kohrman, Matthew -- 9. Wild Consumption / Zhan, Mei -- Managing the Professional Self -- 10. Post-Mao Professionalism / Hoffman, Lisa M. -- 11. Self-fashioning Shanghainese / Ong, Aihwa -- Search for the Self in New Publics -- 12. Living Buddhas, Netizens, and the Price of Religious Freedom / Yü, Dan Smyer -- 13. Privatizing Control / Yongming, Zhou -- Afterword / Litzinger, Ralph A. -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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