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Title Privatizing China : socialism from afar / edited by Li Zhang and Aihwa Ong
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008

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Description viii, 282 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction : privatizing China : powers of the self, socialism from afar / Aihwa Ong and Li Zhang -- Private homes, distinct lifestyles : performing a new middle class / Li Zhang -- Property rights and homeowner activism in new neighborhoods / Benjamin L. Read -- Socialist land masters : the territorial politics of accumulation / You-tien Hsing -- Tax tensions : struggles over income and revenue / Bei Li and Steven M. Sheffrin -- "Reorganized moralism" : the politics of transnational labor codes / Pun Ngai -- Neoliberalism and Hmong/Miao transnational media ventures / Louisa Schein -- Consuming medicine and biotechnology in China / Nancy N. Chen -- Should I quit? : tobacco, fraught identity, and the risks of governmentality / Matthew Kohrman -- Wild consumptions : relocating responsibilities in the time of SARS / Mei Zhan -- Post-Mao professionalism : self-enterprise and patriotism / Lisa M. Hoffman -- Self-fashioning Shanghainese : dancing across spheres of value / Aihwa Ong -- Living buddhas, netizens, and the price of religious freedom / Dan Smyer Yü -- Privatizing control : Internet cafés in China / Zhou Yongming -- Afterword : thinking outside the Leninist corporate box / Ralph A. Litzinger
Notes Papers originally presented at a conference held in Shanghai, China, June 27-29, 2004
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-270) and index
Subject Privatization -- Social aspects -- China -- Congresses.
Communism and individualism -- China -- Congresses.
Socialism -- China -- Congresses.
Social ethics -- China -- Congresses.
SUBJECT China -- Social conditions -- 1976-2000 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024185 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
China -- Social conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003000103 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
China -- Social policy http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101372 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
China -- Economic conditions -- 1976-2000 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114672
China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010023 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
China -- Economic policy -- 1976-2000 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114673
China -- Economic policy -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00001557 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Zhang, Li, 1965-
Ong, Aihwa.
LC no. 2007039503
ISBN 9780801445965 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801445965 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801473784 (paperback: alk. paper)
0801473780 (paperback: alk. paper)