LEADER 03932nam 2200685 450 001 9910818768203321 005 20230126213253.0 010 $a0-8014-5519-7 010 $a1-322-50471-7 010 $a0-8014-5520-0 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801455209 035 $a(CKB)3710000000213505 035 $a(OCoLC)885469851 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10900853 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001290829 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12504696 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001290829 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11244652 035 $a(PQKB)10438138 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001510243 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138614 035 $a(OCoLC)1080550422 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58448 035 $a(DE-B1597)478610 035 $a(OCoLC)979833553 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801455209 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138614 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10900853 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681753 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000213505 100 $a20140814h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe government next door $eneighborhood politics in urban China /$fLuigi Tomba 210 1$aIthaca, New York :$cCornell University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (238 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-5282-1 311 $a0-8014-7935-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: The Neighborhood Consensus -- $t1. Social Clustering -- $t2. Micro-Governing the Urban Crisis -- $t3. Housing and Social Engineering -- $t4. Contained Contention: Interests, Places, Community, and the State -- $t5. A Contagious Civilization: Community, Exemplarism, and Suzhi -- $tConclusion: Arenas of Contention and Accommodation -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aChinese residential communities are places of intense governing and an arena of active political engagement between state and society. In The Government Next Door, Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in citizens' everyday lives. Chinese neighborhoods reveal much about the changing nature of governing practices in the country. Government action is driven by the need to preserve social and political stability, but such priorities must adapt to the progressive privatization of urban residential space and an increasingly complex set of societal forces. Tomba's vivid ethnographic accounts of neighborhood life and politics in Beijing, Shenyang, and Chengdu depict how such local "translation" of government priorities takes place.Tomba reveals how different clusters of residential space are governed more or less intensely depending on the residents' social status; how disgruntled communities with high unemployment are still managed with the pastoral strategies typical of the socialist tradition, while high-income neighbors are allowed greater autonomy in exchange for a greater concern for social order. Conflicts are contained by the gated structures of the neighborhoods to prevent systemic challenges to the government, and middle-class lifestyles have become exemplars of a new, responsible form of citizenship. At times of conflict and in daily interactions, the penetration of the state discourse about social stability becomes clear. 606 $aCity and town life$zChina 606 $aUrban policy$zChina 607 $aChina$xSocial conditions$y2000- 615 0$aCity and town life 615 0$aUrban policy 676 $a307.760951 700 $aTomba$b Luigi$0451145 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818768203321 996 $aThe government next door$94106540 997 $aUNINA