China Urban

by Chen, Nancy N.; Clark, Constance D.; Gottschang, Suzanne Z.; Jeffery, Lyn

• ISBN13: 9780822326342
• ISBN10: 0822326345
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"For readers interested in the intersections of space, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, this book has a wealth of insights to ponder. And for those interested in the complexity, vibrancy, and challenges of today's urban and urbanizing China, this book's the ticket."--Greg Guldin, author of "What's a Peasant to Do? Village Becoming Town in Southern China"

Table of Contents

Editors' Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(22)
Part One Xia Hai: Ethnographies of Work and Leisure
Placing Practices: Transnational Network Marketing in Mainland China	23	(20)
Lyn Jeffery
Guiding College Graduates to Work: Social Constructions of Labor Markets in Dalian	43	(24)
Lisa Hoffman
Rock in a Hard Place: Music and the Market in Nineties Beijing	67	(22)
Robert Efird
Part Two Gender, Bodies, and Consumer Culture
The Consuming Mother: Infant Feeding and the Feminine Body in Urban China	89	(15)
Suzanne Z. Gottschang
Foreign Marriage, ``Tradition,'' and the Politics of Border Crossings	104	(19)
Constance D. Clark
Making Dream Bodies in Beijing: Athletes, Fashion Models, and Urban Mystique in China	123	(20)
Susan Brownell
Sex Tourism Practices on the Periphery: Eroticizing Ethnicity and Pathologizing Sex on the Lancang	143	(22)
Sandra Teresa Hyde
Part Three Negotiating Urban Spaces
Health, Wealth, and the Good Life	165	(18)
Nancy N. Chen
Railway Workers between Plan and Market	183	(18)
Lida Junghans
Contesting Crime, Order, and Migrant Spaces in Beijing	201	(24)
Li Zhang
Part Four Expressions of the Urban
Urbanity, Cosmopolitanism, Consumption	225	(17)
Louisa Schein
Xiaxiang for the '90s: The Shanghai TV Rural Channel and Post-Mao Urbanity amid Global Swirl	242	(32)
Tad Ballew
Face in the Crowd: The Cultural Construction of Anonymity in Urban China	274	(21)
Ellen Hertz
Bibliography	295	(28)
Contributors	323	(2)
Index	325