China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822326345 ISBN 13: 9780822326342

Verlag: DUKE UNIV PR, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

China Urban is an ethnographic account of China's cities and the place that urban space holds in China's imagination. In addition to investigating this nation's rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the "urban" and the utility of urban-focused anthropological critiques during a period of unprecedented change on local, regional, national, and global levels.

Through close attention to everyday lives and narratives and with a particular focus on gender, market, and spatial practices, this collection stresses that, in the case of China, rural life and the impact of socialism must be considered in order to fully comprehend the urban. Individual essays note the impact of legal barriers to geographic mobility in China, the proliferation of different urban centers, the different distribution of resources among various regions, and the pervasive appeal of the urban, both in terms of living in cities and in acquiring products and conventions signaling urbanity. Others focus on the direct sales industry, the Chinese rock music market, the discursive production of femininity and motherhood in urban hospitals, and the transformations in access to healthcare.

China Urban will interest anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and those studying urban planning, China, East Asia, and globalization.

Contributors. Tad Ballew, Susan Brownell, Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark, Robert Efird, Suzanne Z. Gottschang, Ellen Hertz, Lisa Hoffman, Sandra Hyde, Lyn Jeffery, Lida Junghans, Louisa Schein, Li Zhang

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nancy N. Chen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Constance D. Clark teaches Women Studies at San Francisco State University.

Suzanne Z. Gottschang is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Smith College.

Lyn Jeffery is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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"For readers interested in the intersections of space, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, this book has a wealth of insights to ponder. And for those interested in the complexity, vibrancy, and challenges of today's urban and urbanizing China, this book's the ticket."--Greg Guldin, author of "What's a Peasant to Do? Village Becoming Town in Southern China"

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: DUKE UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0822326345
• ISBN 13: 9780822326342
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
• Herausgeber: Chen Nancy N., Clark Constance D., Gottschang Suzanne Z.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar