“Bruckermann provides a nuanced examination of the dynamics of gender, generation and class in Shanxi province. The ethnography is detailed and compelling.” • Andrew B. Kipnis, University of Hong Kong

“An excellent, pioneering analysis… I strongly recommend it.” • Stephan Feuchtwang, London School of Economics

Chinese citizens make themselves at home despite economic transformation, political rupture, and domestic dislocation in the contemporary countryside. By mobilizing labor and kinship to make claims over homes, people, and things, rural residents withstand devaluation and confront dispossession. As a particular configuration of red capitalism and socialist sovereignty takes root, this process challenges the relationship between the politics of place and the location of class in China and beyond.

Series: Volume 26, Dislocations

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Area: Asia-Pacific

LC: HT443.C6 B78 2020

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC026020 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Sociology/Rural

BIC: JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; JFSF Rural communities