Privatizing China: Socialism from Afar - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801473780 ISBN 13 : 9780801473784

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Li Zhang is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Strangers in the City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801473780
• ISBN 13: 9780801473784
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 277
• Éditeur: Zhang Li, Ong Aihwa
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible