The consumer revolution in urban China / edited by Deborah S. Davis.
After decades of egalitarian, restricted consumption, residents of China's cities are surrounded by a level of material comfort and commercial hype unimaginable just ten years ago. In this first in-depth treatment of the consumer revolution in China, fourteen leading scholars of Chinese culture...
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Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000. |
Series: | Studies on China ;
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Table of Contents:
- Revolution in consumption / Deborah S. Davis
- Inventing oasis : luxury housing advertisements and reconfiguring domestic space in Shanghai / David Fraser
- Commercializing childhood : parental purchases for Shanghai's only child / Deborah S. Davis and Julia S. Sensenbrenner
- What's in a dress? Brides in the Hui Quarter of Xi'an / Maris Gillette
- Revitalization of the marketplace : food markets of Nanjing / Ann Veeck
- To be relatively comfortable in an egalitarian society / Hanlong Lu
- Heart-to-heart, phone-to-phone : family values, sexuality, and the politics of Shanghai's advice hotlines / Kathleen Erwin
- Greeting cards in China : mixed language of connections and affections / Mary S. Erbaugh
- Of hamburger and social space : consuming McDonald's in Beijing / Yunxiang Yan
- Dancing through the market transition : disco and dance hall sociability in Shanghai / James Farrer
- Cultivating friendship through bowling in Shenzhen
- Gan Wang
- Cigarettes and domination in Chinese business networks : institutional change during the market transition / David L. Wank
- Public monuments and private pleasures in the parks of Nanjing : a tango in the ruins of the Ming emperor's palace / Richard Kraus
- Second liberation / Richard Madsen.