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OverviewAfter 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 and society explore the interpersonal consequences of rapid commercialization. In the early 1980s, Beijing's communist leadership advocated decollectivization, foreign trade, and private entrepreneurship to jump-start a stagnant economy, while explicitly rejecting any notion that economic reforms would promote political change. However, by the early 1990s the reforms in the marketplace not only produced double-digit growth but also enabled ordinary citizens to nurture dreams and social networks that challenged official discourse and conventions through millions of daily commercial transactions. Using participant observation, contributors to this book describe and analyze a wide range of these changing consumer practices: luxury housing, white wedding gowns, greeting cards, McDonald's, discos, premium cigarettes, bowling, and more. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Deborah S DavisPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 22 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780520216402ISBN 10: 0520216407 Pages: 379 Publication Date: 20 January 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Figures and Table Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: A Revolution in Consumption, by Deborah S. Davis 2. Inventing Oasis: Luxury Housing Advertisements in Reconfiguring Domestic Space in Shanghai, by David Fraser 3. Commercializing Childhood: Parental Purchases for Shanghai's Only Child, by Deborah S. Davis and Julia S. Sensenbrenner 4. What's in a Dress? Brides in the Hui Quarter of Xi'an, by Maris Gillette 5. The Revitalization of the Marketplace: Food Markets of Nanjing, by Ann Veeck 6. To Be Relatively Comfortable in an Egalatarian Society, by Hanlong Lu 7. Heart-to-Heart, Phone-to-Phone: Family Values, Sexuality, and the Politics of Shanghai's Advice Hotlines, by Kathleen Erwin 8. Greeting Cards in China: Mixed Language in Connections and Affections, by Mary S. Erbaugh 9. Of Hamburger and Social Space: Consuming McDonald's in Beijing, by Yunxiang Yan 10. Dancing through the Market Transition: Disco and Dance Hall Sociability in Shanghai, by James Farrer 11. Cultivating Friendship through Bowling in Shenzhen, by Gan Wang 12. Cigarettes and Domination in Chinese Business Networks: Institutional Change during the Market Transition, by David L. Wank 13. Public Monuments and Private Pleasures in the Parks of Nanjing: A Tango in the Ruins of the Ming, by Richard Kraus 14. Epilogue: The Second Liberation, by Richard Madsen Contributors Bibliography IndexReviewsThe definite book on China's consumer revolution. The volume examines how, during the past decade of market reform, China's growing private consumerism is replacing the Maoist egalitarian society oriented toward goods provided publicly or in the workplace. --Choice Author InformationDeborah S. Davis, Professor of Sociology at Yale University, is the author of Long Lives: Chinese Elderly and the Communist Revolution (1991) and coeditor of Chinese Society on the Eve of Tiananmen (1990), Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (California, 1993), and Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China (1995). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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