Description
Book SynopsisUnderstanding the effects of market liberalization through life in a modern Chinese suburb.
Trade Review"Suburban Beijing offers a timely, vivid, and fresh account and a thoughtful analysis of urban housing in China. Friederike Fleischer, a perceptive and careful researcher, draws on firsthand observations, with informative reviews of literature, history, and geography, skillfully weaving a contemporary portrait in both history and location." —Feng Wang, author of Boundaries and Categories: Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: Transforming Suburban Life in China
1. A History of Wangjing: Building the Suburban Industrial Zone
2. Reforming the State Sector, Opening the Private Sector: Changing the Suburban Experience
3. Daily Life in Wangjing: From Exclusive Highrise to Crumbling Compound
4. Socio-economic Differences: Emerging Market Forces, Diverging Values
5. Consumption and the Geography of Space and Social Status
Conclusion: Social Stratification, Consumption, and Housing
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: Field Sites and Methods
Appendix B: Beijing Households and Population Year 2000
Appendix C: 2000 Annual Cash Income Per Capita of 1000 Beijing Urban Households
Appendix D: Sample Living Conditions of 15 Interviewees in the Hong Yuan Compound
Notes
Bibliography
Index
