04812nam 22006975 450 991082131810332120190708092533.00-8014-6192-810.7591/9780801461927(CKB)2550000000036237(EBL)3138192(OCoLC)732957169(SSID)ssj0000540366(PQKBManifestationID)11334574(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000540366(PQKBWorkID)10585314(PQKB)10865786(DE-B1597)481708(OCoLC)984634114(DE-B1597)9780801461927(MiAaPQ)EBC3138192(EXLCZ)99255000000003623720190708d2011 fg engur|n|---|||||txtccrPrivatizing China Socialism from Afar /Aihwa Ong, Li ZhangIthaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011]©20151 online resource (292 p.)Papers originally presented at a conference held in Shanghai, China, June 27-29, 2004.0-8014-4596-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-270) and index.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 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 -- IndexEveryday 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.PrivatizationSocial aspectsChinaCongressesCommunism and individualismChinaCongressesSocialismChinaCongressesSocial ethicsChinaCongressesChinaSocial conditions1976-2000CongressesChinaSocial conditions2000-CongressesChinaSocial policyCongressesChinaEconomic conditions1976-2000CongressesChinaEconomic conditions2000-CongressesChinaEconomic policy1976-2000CongressesChinaEconomic policy2000-CongressesPrivatizationSocial aspectsCommunism and individualismSocialismSocial ethics338.951/05Ong Aihwa, Zhang Li, DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910821318103321Privatizing China4052066UNINA