Privatizing China : socialism from afar / / edited by Li Zhang and Aihwa Ong.

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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:viii, 282 p. :; ill.
Notes:Papers originally presented at a conference held in Shanghai, China, June 27-29, 2004.
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Table of 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 Yu
  • Privatizing control : Internet cafes in China / Zhou Yongming
  • Afterword : thinking outside the Leninist corporate box / Ralph A. Litzinger.