China urban : ethnographies of contemporary culture /
China urban : ethnographies of contemporary culture /
edited by Nancy N. Chen ... [et al.].
- Durham, N.C., London : Duke University Press, 2001.
- x, 338p. : ill. ; 23cm.
Bibliography: p.295-321. - Includes index.
1. Xia Hai : 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. 2. 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 D. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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.
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Bibliography: p.295-321. - Includes index.
1. Xia Hai : 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. 2. 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 D. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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.
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