Hygiene, Sociality, and Culture in Contemporary Rural China : : The Uncanny New Village / / Lili Lai.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• VerfasserIn: Lai, Lili,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: China's Environment and Welfare ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table Of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Preface --; 1.The Local Intimacies Of China'S Rural- Urban Divide --; 2.Dirt, Hygiene, Habitus --; 3.Immanent Sociality: Open-Ended Belonging --; 4 .Culture Plaza: Why Culture? Whose Plaza? --; 5.The Uncanny New Village --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048527007; 9783110667318; 9783110606447; 9783110662931; 9783110662849; 9783110649826
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048527007?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Lili Lai.

This book presents a new perspective on attempts by the contemporary Chinese government to transform the diverse conditions found in countless rural villages into what the state's social welfare program deems "socialist new villages." Lili Lai argues that an ethnographic focus on the specifics of village life can help destabilize China's persistent rural-urban divide and help contribute to more effective welfare intervention to improve health and hygienic conditions of village life.