| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 17, 2019) |
| Subject |
Middle class -- China -- Guangdong Sheng
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Automobile ownership -- China -- Guangdong Sheng
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Automobiles -- Social aspects -- China -- Guangdong Sheng
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Economic development -- China -- History -- 21st century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Automobile ownership
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Automobiles -- Social aspects
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Economic development
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Economic history
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Middle class
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Economic conditions -- 2000-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010023
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| Subject |
China
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China -- Guangdong Sheng
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018048271 |
| ISBN |
9781501738425 |
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1501738429 |
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9781501738418 |
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1501738410 |
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