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Autore |
Su Xiaobo |
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Unhomely Life : Modernity, Mobilities and the Making of Home in China |
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Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2024 |
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©2024 |
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1-394-17631-7 |
1-394-17633-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (253 pages) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Notes on Fieldwork -- Chapter 1 Introduction: From Xiangtu China to Unhomely China -- Modernity as a Deal -- Two Dimensions of Uneven Mobilities -- Lijiang Old Town: The Case -- Structure of the Book -- Notes -- Chapter 2 A Sense of Home in China: Then and Now -- Home: An Ensemble of Representations and Experiences -- A Sense of Home in Traditional Chinese Culture -- Home as a Destination for Return -- Home as a Balanced Way of Living -- Modernization and Loss of Home Feelings in Post-Mao China -- Unhomely Life: An Analytic Framework -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Lifestyle Migration and the (Un)making of an Ideal Home -- Representing Lijiang as an Ideal Home -- Making Home in its Material and Lived Aspects -- Unmaking Home: The Spatial Politics of Belonging and Alienation -- External Pressure for Home Unmaking -- Internal Struggle between Here and There -- Divergence between Busyness and Slowness -- Conclusion: The Ambivalence of an Ideal Home -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Act of Retreat: Tourism, Loafing, and the Consumption of Home -- Solitude and a Natural Way of Living -- Loafing through Socialization -- Regarding Lijiang Old Town as a Home -- Being Unhomely in a Mobile World -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Displacing Native Residents: Money, Meaning, and the Remaking of Home -- A Sense of Home in the Town -- A True Love |
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for Courtyard Houses -- A Close-knit Community in the Town -- From Familiar to Strange: In-situ Displacement -- Age Difference: Departure or Stay -- Making and Remaking Home in Daily Life: Four Stories -- Story 1: Making a Home for Tourists -- Story 2: Promoting Naxi Culture for Profit -- Story 3: The Life Cycle of a New Lijiang Local -- Story 4: Being at Home Forever -- Conclusion -- Note. |
Chapter 6 Hometown Babies: Immobility and Lijiang Locals' Struggles for Home -- Speed and Slowness: The Supply of Homely Service to the Old Town -- Guesthouse A'Jie and the Commodification of Domestic Work -- Delivery A'Ge and Time Discipline -- Freelance Workers for Tourists -- Free Time, Away from Lijiang Old Town -- Pain and Joy: Embracing Hometown in Lijiang -- The Shadow of Patriarchal Society -- In Celebration of Hometown Babies -- Stay and Departure: The Longing for Settlement -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Homemaking in a Relentless World -- The Politics of Homemaking in Lijiang -- Remembering Home in China: By Whom and for What? -- Being Unhomely in Modern Times -- Notes -- References -- Index -- EULA. |
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