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Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “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
Table of Contents List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
Introduction: The Countryside as Home
PART I: HISTORY, POLITICS, PLACE
Chapter 1. The Big Village
Chapter 2. Genealogies Revealed and Concealed
PART II: GENDER, GENERATION, KINSHIP
Chapter 3. Reproducing Kin across Generational Divides
Chapter 4. Gendered Aspirations in Marriage
PART III: LABOR, LOCATION, PRECARITY
Chapter 5. Fields, Food, and the Market
Chapter 6. Dangerous Domesticities
Conclusion: Claims, Belonging, and the Home
Postscript: Home as Workplace
References
Index
