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Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0801475627
ISBN-13
9780801475627
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Product Key Features
Book Title
In Search of Paradise : Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Real Estate / General, Asia / General, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Development / Economic Development, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Government & Business
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Yes
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Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
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Trade Paperback
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0.6 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9 in
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6 in
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Trade
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2009-041332
Dewey Edition
22
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China's rapid urbanisation process and an emerging real estate market have become an eye-catching phenomenon in academic research. It not only greatly transformed the landscape of Chinese cities, but greatly altered the way urban Chinese live and think about their private space, public space and their traditional communities....Overall, this book is easy to read. It can be used as a textbook for undergraduate or postgraduate students to understand the spatialisation of class. It can also provide rich information to academics seeking to understand how individuals, the state, corporations, homeowners and other social groups reposition themselves during housing regime change in China., "The emergence of an increasingly assertive Chinese middle class, aware of its rights but selectively attentive to the civic values that speculators and developers frequently trample underfoot, infuses both the analytic precision and the passionate chiaroscuro of In Search of Paradise. Against the appalling backdrop of the construction laborers' living conditions and of massive patterns of eviction and dislocation, Zhang shows how realtors deploy national laws and socialist and environmental values, with a sometimes self-interested cynicism that nevertheless also answers to the drive to generate a wholesale spatial restructuring-from face-lifts to high-rise fortresses-of Chinese society and subjectivity."-Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, author of Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome, "Li Zhang's perceptive analysis of the 'spatialization of class' and its role in the emergence of a new middle class offers important insights into a Chinese version of modernization and urban development while also uncovering the unstable and complex ways in which spatial transformation creates new forms of identity and experiences of urbanity. Our ability to understand the impact of increasing private home ownership globally depends on this kind of in-depth culturally, politically, and economically informed ethnography. The regional city of Kunming, scarred and deprived of its historical and architectural heritage, becomes the image of modernity and the answer to the dreams of the Chinese middle class and their search for a modern future. But at the same time something is lost and homeowners along with other citizens begin to struggle against the government and private developers who are capitalizing on the remaking of the urban landscape."--Setha Low, Professor of Anthropology, Geography, and Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center, author of Behind the Gates and On the Plaza, "In Search of Paradise is concerned with . . . the implications of the reconfiguration of residential space in Chinese cities for class formation, social exclusion, governing practices, state-society relations, and even for conjugal relationships. . . . Zhang uses her native Kunming as test ground; this results in a savvy and highly readable ethnography of urban social change, which is nonetheless grounded in a strong theoretical framework."-Beatriz Carrillo, The China Journal (July 2011), "China's rapid urbanisation process and an emerging real estate market have become an eye-catching phenomenon in academic research. It not only greatly transformed the landscape of Chinese cities, but greatly altered the way urban Chinese live and think about their private space, public space and their traditional communities. . . .Overall, this book is easy to read. It can be used as a textbook for undergraduate or postgraduate students to understand the spatialisation of class. It can also provide rich information to academics seeking to understand how individuals, the state, corporations, homeowners and other social groups reposition themselves during housing regime change in China."--Yawei Chen, International Journal of Housing Policy (June 2014), This book is an excellent ethnography of urban middle-class living in the midst of rapid transformation in China's postsocialism. The validity of Zhang's ethnography is enhanced by its frankness, her willingness to be honest about those with whom she mingled so closely in her hometown.... Especially given the difficulty in gaining access to the lives of middle-class people, who prefer the privacy of living in gated communities, this book is ethnography at its best. It will be of interest to scholars working in Chinese market transition, class and social stratification, state-society relations, and urban studies, as well as those who are interested in empirically-grounded social and cultural theories., "In Search of Paradise is concerned with . . . the implications of the reconfiguration of residential space in Chinese cities for class formation, social exclusion, governing practices, state-society relations, and even for conjugal relationships. . . . Zhang uses her native Kunming as test ground; this results in a savvy and highly readable ethnography of urban social change, which is nonetheless grounded in a strong theoretical framework."--Beatriz Carrillo, The China Journal (July 2011), "In Search of Paradise is an engaging ethnography of the very different ways in which individuals, families, and social strata are affected by the experience of homeownership. Li Zhang explains how, in the process, they become citizens of a different political order, building responsibilities and elaborating desires. This important book is a significant addition to the literature on China's housing reform and to our understanding of the political and cultural dynamics of urban social change."-Luigi Tomba, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, "This book is an excellent ethnography of urban middle-class living in the midst of rapid transformation in China's postsocialism. The validity of Zhang's ethnography is enhanced by its frankness, her willingness to be honest about those with whom she mingled so closely in her hometown. . . . Especially given the difficulty in gaining access to the lives of middle-class people, who prefer the privacy of living in gated communities, this book is ethnography at its best. It will be of interest to scholars working in Chinese market transition, class and social stratification, state-society relations, and urban studies, as well as those who are interested in empirically-grounded social and cultural theories."--Seio Nakajima, Journal of Asian Studies (May 2011), "In Search of Paradise is an engaging ethnography of the very different ways in which individuals, families, and social strata are affected by the experience of homeownership. Li Zhang explains how, in the process, they become citizens of a different political order, building responsibilities and elaborating desires. This important book is a significant addition to the literature on China's housing reform and to our understanding of the political and cultural dynamics of urban social change."--Luigi Tomba, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, "Li Zhang's perceptive analysis of the 'spatialization of class' and its role in the emergence of a new middle class offers important insights into a Chinese version of modernization and urban development while also uncovering the unstable and complex ways in which spatial transformation creates new forms of identity and experiences of urbanity. Our ability to understand the impact of increasing private home ownership globally depends on this kind of in-depth culturally, politically, and economically informed ethnography. The regional city of Kunming, scarred and deprived of its historical and architectural heritage, becomes the image of modernity and the answer to the dreams of the Chinese middle class and their search for a modern future. But at the same time something is lost and homeowners along with other citizens begin to struggle against the government and private developers who are capitalizing on the remaking of the urban landscape."-Setha Low, Professor of Anthropology, Geography, and Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center, author of Behind the Gates and On the Plaza, "This book is an excellent ethnography of urban middle-class living in the midst of rapid transformation in China's postsocialism. The validity of Zhang's ethnography is enhanced by its frankness, her willingness to be honest about those with whom she mingled so closely in her hometown. . . . Especially given the difficulty in gaining access to the lives of middle-class people, who prefer the privacy of living in gated communities, this book is ethnography at its best. It will be of interest to scholars working in Chinese market transition, class and social stratification, state-society relations, and urban studies, as well as those who are interested in empirically-grounded social and cultural theories."-Seio Nakajima, Journal of Asian Studies (May 2011), "The emergence of an increasingly assertive Chinese middle class, aware of its rights but selectively attentive to the civic values that speculators and developers frequently trample underfoot, infuses both the analytic precision and the passionate chiaroscuro of In Search of Paradise. Against the appalling backdrop of the construction laborers' living conditions and of massive patterns of eviction and dislocation, Zhang shows how realtors deploy national laws and socialist and environmental values, with a sometimes self-interested cynicism that nevertheless also answers to the drive to generate a wholesale spatial restructuring--from face-lifts to high-rise fortresses--of Chinese society and subjectivity."--Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, author of Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome
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College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
305.5/5095135
Table Of Content
Introduction 1. Farewell to Welfare Housing 2. Unlocking the Real Estate Machine 3. Emerging Landscapes of Living 4. Spatializing Class 5. Accumulation by Displacement 6. Recasting Self-Worth 7. Privatizing Community Governing and Its Limits Epilogue Notes References Index
Synopsis
A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and socialist ideals, they hope to find material comfort and social distinction in newly constructed gated communities. This quest for the good life is profoundly transforming the physical and social landscapes of urban China. Li Zhang, who is from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, turns a keen ethnographic eye on her hometown. She combines her analysis of larger political and social issues with fine-grained details about the profound spatial, cultural, and political effects of the shift in the way Chinese urban residents live their lives and think about themselves. In Search of Paradise is a deeply informed account of how the rise of private homeownership is reconfiguring urban space, class subjects, gender selfhood, and ways of life in the reform era. New, seemingly individualistic lifestyles mark a dramatic move away from yearning for a social utopia under Maoist socialism. Yet the privatization of property and urban living have engendered a simultaneous movement of public engagement among homeowners as they confront the encroaching power of the developers. This double movement of privatized living and public sphere activism, Zhang finds, is a distinctive feature of the cultural politics of the middle classes in contemporary China. Theoretically sophisticated and highly accessible, Zhang's account will appeal not only to those interested in China but also to anyone interested in spatial politics, middle-class culture, and postsocialist governing in a globalizing world., "An engaging ethnography of the very different ways in which individuals, families, and social strata in China are affected by the experience of homeownership."?Luigi Tomba, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
LC Classification Number
HD7368.K86Z43 2010
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