Privatizing China : : Socialism from Afar / / ed. by Aihwa Ong, Li Zhang.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Chen, Nancy N.,; Hoffman, Lisa M.,; Hsing, You-tien,; Kohrman, Matthew,; Li, Bei,; Litzinger, Ralph A.,; Ngai, Pun,; Ong, Aihwa,; Read, Benjamin L.,; Schein, Louisa,; Sheffrin, Steven M.,; Yongming, Zhou,; Yü, Dan Smyer,; Zhan, Mei,; Zhang, Li,
• HerausgeberIn: Ong, Aihwa,; Zhang, Li,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 2 tables, 6 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Privatizing China --; Part I. Powers of Property --; Emerging Class Practices --; 1. Private Homes, Distinct Lifestyles --; 2. Property Rights and Homeowner Activism in New Neighborhoods --; Accumulating Land and Money --; 3. Socialist Land Masters --; 4. Tax Tensions --; Negotiating Neoliberal Values --; 5. "Reorganized Moralism" --; 6. Neoliberalism and Hmong/Miao Transnational Media Ventures --; Part II. Powers of the Self --; Taking Care of One's Health --; 7. Consuming Medicine and Biotechnology in China --; 8. Should I Quit? Tobacco, Fraught Identity, and the Risks of Governmentality --; 9. Wild Consumption --; Managing the Professional Self --; 10. Post-Mao Professionalism --; 11. Self-fashioning Shanghainese --; Search for the Self in New Publics --; 12. Living Buddhas, Netizens, and the Price of Religious Freedom --; 13. Privatizing Control --; Afterword --; Notes --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780801461927; 9783110649826; 9783110536157; 9783110606744
• DOI: 10.7591/9780801461927
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Aihwa Ong, Li Zhang.

Everyday life in China is increasingly shaped by a novel mix of neoliberal and socialist elements, of individual choices and state objectives. This combination of self-determination and socialism from afar has incited profound changes in the ways individuals think and act in different spheres of society. Covering a vast range of daily life-from homeowner organizations and the users of Internet cafes to self-directed professionals and informed consumers-the essays in Privatizing China create a compelling picture of the burgeoning awareness of self-governing within the postsocialist context. The introduction by Aihwa Ong and Li Zhang presents assemblage as a concept for studying China as a unique postsocialist society created through interactions with global forms. The authors conduct their ethnographic fieldwork in a spectrum of domains-family, community, real estate, business, taxation, politics, labor, health, professions, religion, and consumption-that are infiltrated by new techniques of the self and yet also regulated by broader socialist norms. Privatizing China gives readers a grounded, fine-grained intimacy with the variety and complexity of everyday conduct in China's turbulent transformation.