Privatizing China [electronic resource] : socialism from afar / edited by Li Zhang and Aihwa Ong.

Contributor(s): Zhang, Li, 1965- | Ong, Aihwa | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008Description: viii, 282 p. : illISBN: 9780801461927 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Privatization -- Social aspects -- China -- Congresses | Communism and individualism -- China -- Congresses | Socialism -- China -- Congresses | Social ethics -- China -- Congresses | China -- Social conditions -- 1976-2000 -- Congresses | China -- Social conditions -- 2000- -- Congresses | China -- Social policy -- Congresses | China -- Economic conditions -- 1976-2000 -- Congresses | China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- -- Congresses | China -- Economic policy -- 1976-2000 -- Congresses | China -- Economic policy -- 2000- -- CongressesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 338.951/05 LOC classification: HD4318 | .P755 2008Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Papers originally presented at a conference held in Shanghai, China, June 27-29, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-270) and index.

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.

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