- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Summary
- "This book explores, ethnographically, the entanglement between the rise of the automotive regime and emergence of the middle class in South China, through which a nuanced picture of China's great transformations is depicted"--
- Uniform Title
- Driving toward modernity (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Driving toward modernity (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction : a mobile lifestyle, a middle way of living -- Prologue : from official privileges to consumer goods : the changing political economy of automobiles -- Driving alone together: sociality, solidarity, and status -- Family cars, filial consumer-citizens : becoming properly middle class -- The emerging middle class and the car market : mobilities and trajectories -- Car crash, class encounter : anxiety of mobility -- Bidding for a license plate : the importance of being a free and proper consumer -- Parking : contesting space in middle-class complexes.
- ISBN
- 9781501738425
- LCCN
- 2018048271
- OCLC
- ssj0002195409
- Author
Zhang, Jun, 1977-
- Title
Driving toward modernity [electronic resource] : cars and the lives of the middle class in contemporary China / Jun Zhang.
- Imprint
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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- Other Form:
Print version: Zhang, Jun, 1977- author. Driving toward modernity Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501738395 (DLC) 2018044262