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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Friederike FleischerPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9780816645961ISBN 10: 0816645965 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 16 December 2010 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Transforming Suburban Life in China 1. A History of Wangjing: Building the Suburban Industrial Zone 2. Reforming the State Sector, Opening the Private Sector: Changing the Suburban Experience 3. Daily Life in Wangjing: From Exclusive Highrise to Crumbling Compound 4. Socio-economic Differences: Emerging Market Forces, Diverging Values 5. Consumption and the Geography of Space and Social Status Conclusion: Social Stratification, Consumption, and Housing Acknowledgments Appendix A: Field Sites and Methods Appendix B: Beijing Households and Population Year 2000 Appendix C: 2000 Annual Cash Income Per Capita of 1000 Beijing Urban Households Appendix D: Sample Living Conditions of 15 Interviewees in the Hong Yuan Compound Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsSuburban Beijing offers a timely, vivid, and fresh account and a thoughtful analysis of urban housing in China. Friederike Fleischer, a perceptive and careful researcher, draws on firsthand observations, with informative reviews of literature, history, and geography, skillfully weaving a contemporary portrait in both history and location. --Feng Wang, author of Boundaries and Categories: Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China <p> Suburban Beijing offers a timely, vivid, and fresh account and a thoughtful analysis of urban housing in China. Friederike Fleischer, a perceptive and careful researcher, draws on firsthand observations, with informative reviews of literature, history, and geography, skillfully weaving a contemporary portrait in both history and location. --Feng Wang, author of Boundaries and Categories: Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China Author InformationFriederike Fleischer is assistant professor at the University of los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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