ISBN:
9780415501354
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (209 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Contemporary China Series
Series Statement:
Routledge Contemporary China Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Middle Class in Neoliberal China : Governing Risk, Life-Building, and Themed Spaces
DDC:
305.5/50951
Keywords:
Middle class - China
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Since the late 1970s, China's move towards neoliberalism has made it not only one of the world's fastest growing economies, but also one of the most polarised states. This economic, social and political transformation has led to the emergence of a new Chinese middle class, and understanding the development and the role of this new social group is crucial to understanding contemporary Chinese society.Investigating the new politics of the middle class in China, this book addresses three major questions. First, how does the Chinese state deal with problems of national sovereignty and political re
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The Middle Class in Neoliberal China: Governing risk, life-building, and themed spaces; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The risk economy of the middle class; Studies of the middle class in social and human sciences; The middle class in Chinese studies; A theory of the dispositive; The book's organization; 1 The state question of the middle class; The state representation of the people: the one-many dialectics; Political representation in China; The taming of chance; Engineering the middle class; 2 Cultural neoliberalization
Description / Table of Contents:
Cinematic discourse of classClass struggle as practice; Museum as an institution; Museum as an enterprise; Cultural entrepreneurism; Conclusion: the work of media culture in the neoliberal process; 3 Life spectacles; Defining life spectacle; Life television; Synergy, convergence, and affective labor; Distributive regimes of power; 4 Imagineering a middle-class society; Manufactured landscape; Participatory consumption and subjectification; Consumer citizenship as an individualized configuration of values and norms; 5 Middle-class photography; Ethnic affective labor and photographic poses
Description / Table of Contents:
Digital photographyCosmopolitanism, consumer responsibility, and middle-class subjectivity; Photography as technologies of the self; 6 Individualization and precariousness of life; Facial recognition; Still life; Affective labor and the subjectification of life; The middle-class frame and precariousness of life; Conclusion: The middle-class dispositive in Chinese risk society; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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