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Author:   Cheuk-Yuet Ho
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9781498506830

ISBN 10:   1498506836
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   15 July 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Glossary of Chinese Terms Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction: From Vice to the Virtue of Owning Private Property Chapter 2 Exit, or Evict: Re-grounding Rights in Need Chapter 3 Bargaining Demolition: When Needs and Desires Meet Chapter 4 Investing Citizens: Embracing Desires and Risks Chapter 5 Affective Ownership: Situating Rights in Desires Chapter 6 The Property Question: Meanings and Values Chapter 7 The Real Life of Rights: A Detour from Needs and Desires to Interests Chapter 8 Final Thoughts: The Ambivalence of Rights Afterword Locating and Mislocating Rights in Neo-Socialist China Appendix Research Methods References Index

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Rich in empirical evidence and theoretical exploration, Neo-Socialist Property Rights tackles the tension created by an authoritarian government and a market economy. It sheds intriguing light on the property issue that is at the heart of China's growth and decay in the post-Mao era. -- Qin Shao, author of Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity This provocative study offers a deeply human portrait of urban citizens engaged in everyday struggles over the right to housing. With theoretical sophistication and rich ethnographic observation, Ho Cheuk-Yuet reveals the paradoxes of housing privatization, and in so doing, advances a new understanding of emergent notions of property rights and debates over home ownership in China's booming real estate market. -- Christina Schwenkel, University of California, Riverside

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Ho Cheuk-Yuet is adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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