The consumer revolution in urban China /
The consumer revolution in urban China /
edited by Deborah S. Davis.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, �2000.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 366 pages) : illustrations.
- Studies on China ; 22 .
- Studies on China ; 22. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-344) and index.
Revolution in consumption / Inventing oasis : luxury housing advertisements and reconfiguring domestic space in Shanghai / Commercializing childhood : parental purchases for Shanghai's only child / What's in a dress? Brides in the Hui Quarter of Xi'an / Revitalization of the marketplace : food markets of Nanjing / To be relatively comfortable in an egalitarian society / Heart-to-heart, phone-to-phone : family values, sexuality, and the politics of Shanghai's advice hotlines / Greeting cards in China : mixed language of connections and affections / Of hamburger and social space : consuming McDonald's in Beijing / Dancing through the market transition : disco and dance hall sociability in Shanghai / Cultivating friendship through bowling in Shenzhen -- Gan Wang -- Cigarettes and domination in Chinese business networks : institutional change during the market transition / Public monuments and private pleasures in the parks of Nanjing : a tango in the ruins of the Ming emperor's palace / Second liberation / Deborah S. Davis -- David Fraser -- Deborah S. Davis and Julia S. Sensenbrenner -- Maris Gillette -- Ann Veeck -- Hanlong Lu -- Kathleen Erwin -- Mary S. Erbaugh -- Yunxiang Yan -- James Farrer -- David L. Wank -- Richard Kraus -- Richard Madsen.
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After decades of egalitarian, restricted consumption, residents of China's cities are surrounded by a level of material comfort and commercial hype 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, while explicitly rejecting any notion that economic reforms would promote political change. However, by the early 1990s the reforms in the marketplace not only produced double-digit growth but also enabled ordinary citizens to nurture dreams and social networks that challenged official discourse and conventions through millions of daily commercial transactions. Using participant observation, contributors to this book describe and analyze a wide range of these changing consumer practices: luxury housing, white wedding gowns, greeting cards, McDonald's, discos, premium cigarettes, bowling, and more.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
9780520921962 0520921968 0585323224 9780585323220
Consumers--China.
Consumption (Economics)--China.
Consumer behavior--China.
Consommateurs--Congr�es.--Chine
Consommation (�Economie politique)--Congr�es.--Chine
Consommateurs--Comportement--Congr�es.--Chine
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Economics--Macroeconomics.
Consumer behavior.
Consumers.
Consumption (Economics)
Verbraucherverhalten
Kongress
Consumentengedrag.
Consumptie.
Consommateurs--Chine.
Consommateurs--Attitudes--Chine.
Consommateurs--Pr�ef�erences--Chine.
Consommation--Chine.
Business & Economics.
Economic History.
China.
Chine--Consommation.
China.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HC430.C6 / C66 2000eb
339.4/7/0951
HC430.C6 / C66 2000eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-344) and index.
Revolution in consumption / Inventing oasis : luxury housing advertisements and reconfiguring domestic space in Shanghai / Commercializing childhood : parental purchases for Shanghai's only child / What's in a dress? Brides in the Hui Quarter of Xi'an / Revitalization of the marketplace : food markets of Nanjing / To be relatively comfortable in an egalitarian society / Heart-to-heart, phone-to-phone : family values, sexuality, and the politics of Shanghai's advice hotlines / Greeting cards in China : mixed language of connections and affections / Of hamburger and social space : consuming McDonald's in Beijing / Dancing through the market transition : disco and dance hall sociability in Shanghai / Cultivating friendship through bowling in Shenzhen -- Gan Wang -- Cigarettes and domination in Chinese business networks : institutional change during the market transition / Public monuments and private pleasures in the parks of Nanjing : a tango in the ruins of the Ming emperor's palace / Second liberation / Deborah S. Davis -- David Fraser -- Deborah S. Davis and Julia S. Sensenbrenner -- Maris Gillette -- Ann Veeck -- Hanlong Lu -- Kathleen Erwin -- Mary S. Erbaugh -- Yunxiang Yan -- James Farrer -- David L. Wank -- Richard Kraus -- Richard Madsen.
Use copy
After decades of egalitarian, restricted consumption, residents of China's cities are surrounded by a level of material comfort and commercial hype 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, while explicitly rejecting any notion that economic reforms would promote political change. However, by the early 1990s the reforms in the marketplace not only produced double-digit growth but also enabled ordinary citizens to nurture dreams and social networks that challenged official discourse and conventions through millions of daily commercial transactions. Using participant observation, contributors to this book describe and analyze a wide range of these changing consumer practices: luxury housing, white wedding gowns, greeting cards, McDonald's, discos, premium cigarettes, bowling, and more.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
9780520921962 0520921968 0585323224 9780585323220
Consumers--China.
Consumption (Economics)--China.
Consumer behavior--China.
Consommateurs--Congr�es.--Chine
Consommation (�Economie politique)--Congr�es.--Chine
Consommateurs--Comportement--Congr�es.--Chine
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Economics--Macroeconomics.
Consumer behavior.
Consumers.
Consumption (Economics)
Verbraucherverhalten
Kongress
Consumentengedrag.
Consumptie.
Consommateurs--Chine.
Consommateurs--Attitudes--Chine.
Consommateurs--Pr�ef�erences--Chine.
Consommation--Chine.
Business & Economics.
Economic History.
China.
Chine--Consommation.
China.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HC430.C6 / C66 2000eb
339.4/7/0951
HC430.C6 / C66 2000eb