Format:
xi, 220 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9781501738401
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9781501738395
,
9781501738418
,
9781501738425
Content:
"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"--
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Zhang, Jun, 1977- author Driving toward modernity Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019
Language:
English
Keywords:
China
;
Ethnologie
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
;
Mittelstand
;
Lebensstil
;
Mobilität
;
Kraftfahrzeug
;
Statussymbol
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Geschichte 21. Jh.
