Chen / Clark / Gottschang China Urban

Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8133-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 349 Seiten

Ethnographies of urban China informed by current theoretical concerns.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chen, Nancy N.

Clark, Constance D.

Gottschang, Suzanne Z.

Jeffery, Lyn

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hoffman, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors' Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One. Xia Hai: The Ethnographies of Work and Leisure

Placing Practices: Transnational Network Marketing in Mainland China / Lyn Jeffery

Guiding College Graduates to Work: Social Constructions of Labor Markets in Dalian / Lisa Hoffman

Rock in a Hard Place: Music and the Market in Nineties Beijing / Robert Efird

Part Two. Gender, Bodies, and Consumer Culture

The Consuming Mother: Infant Feeding and the Feminine Body in Urban China / Suzanne Z. Gottschang

Foreign Marriage, “Tradition,” and the Politics of Border Crossings / Constance Clark

Making Dream Bodies in Beijing: Athletes, Fashion Models, and Urban Mystique in China / Susan Brownell

Sex Tourism Practices on the Periphery: Eroticizing Ethnicity and Pathologizing Sex on the Lancang / Sandra Teresa Hyde

Part Three. Negotiating Urban Spaces

Health, Wealth, and the Good Life / Nancy N. Chen

Railway Workers between Plan and Market / Lida Junghans

Contesting Crime, Order, and Migrant Spaces in Beijing / Li Zhang

Part Four. Expressions of the Urban

Urbanity, Cosmopolitanism, Consumption / Louisa Schein

Xiaxiang for the ‘90s: The Shanghai TV Rural Channel and Post-Mao Urbanity Amid Global Swirl / Tad Ballew

Face in the Crowd: The Cultural Construction of Anonymity in Urban China / Ellen Hertz

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy N. Chen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Constance D. Clark teaches Women Studies at San Francisco State University.Suzanne Z. Gottschang is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Smith College.Lyn Jeffery is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.