Privatizing China Socialism from Afar

Name: Privatizing China Socialism from Afar
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ISBN: 9780801473784

ISBN-10: 0801473780

ISBN-13: 9780801473784

Edition: 2008

Authors: Li Zhang, Aihwa Ong

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Everyday life in China is increasingly shaped by a novel mix of neoliberal and socialist elements, of individual choices and state objectives. This combination of self-determination and socialism from afar has incited profound changes in the ways individuals think and act in different spheres of society. Covering a vast range of daily life-from homeowner organizations and the users of Internet cafs to self-directed professionals and informed consumers-the essays in Privatizing China create a compelling picture of the burgeoning awareness of self-governing within the postsocialist context. The introduction by Aihwa Ong and Li Zhang presents assemblage as a concept for studying China as a…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 2/28/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Li Zhangis a Research Fellow in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. She was awarded the European Studies in Asia (ESiA) Young Academic’s Research Fellowship by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) in 2009 and took the fellowship in the National Centre for Research on Europe at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and the European Union Centre in Singapore. She holds a PhD in International Communications from the University of Leeds.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Privatizing China: Powers of the Self, Socialism from Afar




Powers of Property


Emerging Class Practices



Private Homes, Distinct Lifestyles: Performing a New Middle Class




Property Rights and Homeowner Activism in New Neighborhoods



Accumulating Land and Money



Socialist Land Masters: The Territorial Politics of Accumulation




Tax Tensions: Struggles over Income and Revenue



Negotiating Neoliberal Values



"Reorganized Moralism": The Politics of Transnational Labor Codes




Neoliberalism and Hmong/Miao Transnational Media Ventures




Powers of the Self


Taking Care of One's Health



Consuming Medicine and Biotechnology in China




Should I Quit? Tobacco, Fraught Identity, and the Risks of Governmentality




Wild Consumption: Relocating Responsibilities in the Time of SARS



Managing the Professional Self



Post-Mao Professionalism: Self-enterprise and Patriotism




Self-fashioning Shanghainese: Dancing across Spheres of Value



Search for the Self in New Publics



Living Buddhas, Netizens, and the Price of Religious Freedom




Privatizing Control: Internet Cafes in China



Afterword: Thinking Outside the Leninist Corporate Box



Notes


Contributors


Index