ISBN:
1501738429
,
1501738410
,
9781501738425
,
9781501738418
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 220 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Zhang, Jun, 1977- Driving toward modernity
DDC:
305.5/5095127
Keywords:
Automobile ownership
;
Automobiles Social aspects
;
Economic development History 21st century
;
Middle class
;
Automobile ownership
;
Automobiles ; Social aspects
;
Economic development
;
Economic history
;
Middle class
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
History
;
China Economic conditions 2000-
;
China
;
China ; Guangdong Sheng
Abstract:
"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"--
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738418
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