Driving toward modernity : cars and the lives of the middle class in contemporary China

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    • Zhang, Jun

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Driving toward modernity : cars and the lives of the middle class in contemporary China

Jun Zhang

Cornell University Press, 2019

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-215) and index

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In Driving toward Modernity, Jun Zhang ethnographically explores the entanglement between the rise of the automotive regime and emergence of the middle class in South China. Focusing on the Pearl River Delta, one of the nation's wealthiest regions, Zhang shows how private cars have shaped everyday middle-class sociality, solidarity, and subjectivity, and how the automotive regime has helped make the new middle classes of the PRC. By carefully analyzing how physical and social mobility intertwines, Driving toward Modernity paints a nuanced picture of modern Chinese life, comprising the continuity and rupture as well as the structure and agency of China's great transformation.

目次

List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations and Note on Translation Introduction: A Mobile Lifestyle, A Middle Way of Living Prologue: From Official Privileges to Consumer Goods 1. Driving Alone Together: Sociality, Solidarity, and Status 2. Family Cars, Filial Consumer-Citizens: Becoming Properly Middle Class 3. The Emerging Middle Class and the Car Market: Mobilities and Trajectories 4. Car Crash, Class Encounter: Anxiety of Mobility 5. Bidding for a License Plate: The Importance of Being a Free and Proper Consumer 6. Parking: Contesting Space in Middle-Class Complexes Epilogue: Politics of Transformation Glossary Notes References Index

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