{"product_id":"china-urban-9780822326342","title":"China Urban","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers an account of China's cities and the place that urban space holds in China's imagination. This book emphasises 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eChina Urban\u003c\/i\u003e brings together some of the best new ethnographic work on the changing dynamics of time, space, and place in 1990s China. These essays take the reader into a wide range of localities, but always with an eye turned toward larger national and global transformations. \u003ci\u003eChina Urban\u003c\/i\u003e also speaks to a wide range of debates in contemporary \u003cbr\u003esocial and political theory, and it offers an innovative approach to the study of the urban in postsocialist China and elswhere. This volume is long overdue.”—Ralph Litzinger, author of \u003ci\u003eOther Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eWhat’s a Peasant to Do? Village Becoming Town in Southern China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditors' Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e Part One. Xia Hai: The Ethnographies of Work and Leisure \u003cbr\u003e Placing Practices: Transnational Network Marketing in Mainland China \/ Lyn Jeffery \u003cbr\u003e Guiding College Graduates to Work: Social Constructions of Labor Markets in Dalian \/ Lisa Hoffman \u003cbr\u003e Rock in a Hard Place: Music and the Market in Nineties Beijing \/ Robert Efird \u003cbr\u003e Part Two. Gender, Bodies, and Consumer Culture \u003cbr\u003e The Consuming Mother: Infant Feeding and the Feminine Body in Urban China \/ Suzanne Z. Gottschang \u003cbr\u003e Foreign Marriage, “Tradition,” and the Politics of Border Crossings \/ Constance Clark \u003cbr\u003e Making Dream Bodies in Beijing: Athletes, Fashion Models, and Urban Mystique in China \/ Susan Brownell \u003cbr\u003e Sex Tourism Practices on the Periphery: Eroticizing Ethnicity and Pathologizing Sex on the Lancang \/ Sandra Teresa Hyde \u003cbr\u003e Part Three. Negotiating Urban Spaces \u003cbr\u003e Health, Wealth, and the Good Life \/ Nancy N. Chen \u003cbr\u003e Railway Workers between Plan and Market \/ Lida Junghans \u003cbr\u003e Contesting Crime, Order, and Migrant Spaces in Beijing \/ Li Zhang \u003cbr\u003e Part Four. Expressions of the Urban \u003cbr\u003e Urbanity, Cosmopolitanism, Consumption \/ Louisa Schein \u003cbr\u003e Xiaxiang for the ‘90s: The Shanghai TV Rural Channel and Post-Mao Urbanity Amid Global Swirl \/ Tad Ballew \u003cbr\u003e Face in the Crowd: The Cultural Construction of Anonymity in Urban China \/ Ellen Hertz \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406026744151,"sku":"9780822326342","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822326342.jpg?v=1730494289","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/china-urban-9780822326342","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}