Driving toward modernity : cars and the lives of the middle class in contemporary China /
"This book explores, ethnographically, the entanglement between the rise of the automotive regime and emergence of the middle class in South China, through which a nuanced picture of China's great transformations is depicted"--
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press
[2019]
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvfc51km |
جدول المحتويات:
- Introduction : a mobile lifestyle, a middle way of living
- Prologue : from official privileges to consumer goods : the changing political economy of automobiles
- Driving alone together: sociality, solidarity, and status
- Family cars, filial consumer-citizens : becoming properly middle class
- The emerging middle class and the car market : mobilities and trajectories
- Car crash, class encounter : anxiety of mobility
- Bidding for a license plate : the importance of being a free and proper consumer
- Parking : contesting space in middle-class complexes.