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Informationen zum Autor Deborah 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). Klappentext After decades of egalitarian! restricted consumption! the residents of China's cities are today surrounded by material comforts and awash in a level of commercial hype that was totally 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. It explicitly rejected any notion that economic reforms would lead to political change! but by the early 1990s its program had not only produced double-digit growth but also enabled ordinary citizens to nurture dreams and social networks that challenged official monopolies of power. Using participant observation! the authors in this book describe and analyze a wide range of these changing consumer practices! including luxury housing! white wedding gowns! greeting cards! McDonald's! discos! premium cigarettes! and bowling.Capitalism has brought urban Chinese both a higher material standard of living and new freedoms to create a private life beyond the control of the state. This important book offers rare insights into the world's largest marketplace. Zusammenfassung After decades of egalitarian, restricted consumption, residents of China's cities are surrounded by a level of material comfort and commercial hype previously unimagined. This treatment of consumer revolution in China explores the interspersonal consequences of rapid commercialization. Inhaltsverzeichnis List 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 Index ...
