The transition study of postsocialist China : an ethnographic study of a model community /
There is no denying that China has experienced, and is still experiencing, radical changes, generally initiated by the vibrant market-driven economy that began in the late 1970s. The question remains, however, of what has happened to those who, just a few decades before, experienced pride and power...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ :
World Scientific Pub.,
©2010.
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| Series: | Series on contemporary China ;
v. 25. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Encountering a forgotten people, experiencing social change
- 2. The (un- ) making of a socialist "Model community" : Heterogeneous appropriations of the past
- 3. Binding up the "Loose sand" : The rise and fall of collectivism
- 4. Building up modernity : The spatial representations of state power
- 5. Negotiating subalternity : "Model proletarians" or "Society people"?
- 6. Facing up to the postsocialist future : Public amnesia and multiple modernities
- 7. Conclusion : Experiencing an ideology that truncates time and space
- 8. Epilogue : Revisiting cucumber lane in 2008.
