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
Other Authors: Davis, Deborah, 1945-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.
Series:Studies on China ; 22.
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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.