Streetlife China
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Modern China Series
ISBN-10
0521637198
ISBN-13
9780521637190
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 13th, 1999
Print length
324 Pages
Weight
662 grams
Dimensions
19.10 x 24.60 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnographySocial and cultural anthropology
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This imaginative collection of pieces about life in contemporary China reveals a patchwork picture of the lives of ordinary people and the rules and rituals that govern their daily existence. There will be no better introduction to the discourses of contemporary China, and few more stimulating accounts of shifts in cultural life.
This imaginative and incisive collection of pieces about life in contemporary China reveals, like a series of snapshots, a picture of the lives of ordinary people and the rules and rituals that govern their daily existence. Key themes surface: in particular, the emergence of a consumer culture driven by the market, and the way in which this intersects with the 'floating population' of vagrants, prostitutes, and liumang (hooligans). We see how, in turn, the official strategies of the state deal with this perceived social disorder and how the street responds. Underlying much of the discussion of contestation and transformation is the notion of human rights. There will be no better introduction to the discourses of contemporary China, and few more entertaining, vivid, and stimulating accounts of shifts in cultural life and politics.
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