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Informationen zum Autor Nancy N. Chen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Constance D. Clark teaches Women Studies at San Francisco State University.Suzanne Z. Gottschang is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Smith College.Lyn Jeffery is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Klappentext "For readers interested in the intersections of space, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, this book has a wealth of insights to ponder. And for those interested in the complexity, vibrancy, and challenges of today's urban and urbanizing China, this book's the ticket."--Greg Guldin, author of "What's a Peasant to Do? Village Becoming Town in Southern China" Zusammenfassung Offers an account of China's cities and the place that urban space holds in China's imagination. This book emphasises the need to rethink the very meaning of the "urban" and the utility of urban-focused anthropological critiques during a period of unprecedented change on local! regional! national! and global levels. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editors' Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Xia Hai: The Ethnographies of Work and Leisure Placing Practices: Transnational Network Marketing in Mainland China / Lyn Jeffery Guiding College Graduates to Work: Social Constructions of Labor Markets in Dalian / Lisa Hoffman Rock in a Hard Place: Music and the Market in Nineties Beijing / Robert Efird Part Two. Gender, Bodies, and Consumer Culture The Consuming Mother: Infant Feeding and the Feminine Body in Urban China / Suzanne Z. Gottschang Foreign Marriage, “Tradition,” and the Politics of Border Crossings / Constance Clark Making Dream Bodies in Beijing: Athletes, Fashion Models, and Urban Mystique in China / Susan Brownell Sex Tourism Practices on the Periphery: Eroticizing Ethnicity and Pathologizing Sex on the Lancang / Sandra Teresa Hyde Part Three. Negotiating Urban Spaces Health, Wealth, and the Good Life / Nancy N. Chen Railway Workers between Plan and Market / Lida Junghans Contesting Crime, Order, and Migrant Spaces in Beijing / Li Zhang Part Four. Expressions of the Urban Urbanity, Cosmopolitanism, Consumption / Louisa Schein Xiaxiang for the ‘90s: The Shanghai TV Rural Channel and Post-Mao Urbanity Amid Global Swirl / Tad Ballew Face in the Crowd: The Cultural Construction of Anonymity in Urban China / Ellen Hertz Bibliography Contributors Index...
