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China Urban is an ethnographic account of China's cities and the place that urban space holds in China's imagination. In addition to investigating this nation's rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize 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.Through close attention to everyday lives and narratives and with a particular focus on gender, market, and spatial practices, this collection stresses that, in the case of China, rural life and the impact of socialism must be considered in order to fully comprehend the urban. Individual essays note the impact of legal barriers to geographic mobility in China, the proliferation of different urban centers, the different distribution of resources among various regions, and the pervasive appeal of the urban, both in terms of living in cities and in acquiring products and conventions signaling urbanity. Others focus on the direct sales industry, the Chinese rock music market, the discursive production of femininity and motherhood in urban hospitals, and the transformations in access to healthcare.China Urban will interest anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and those studying urban planning, China, East Asia, and globalization.Contributors. Tad Ballew, Susan Brownell, Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark, Robert Efird, Suzanne Z. Gottschang, Ellen Hertz, Lisa Hoffman, Sandra Hyde, Lyn Jeffery, Lida Junghans, Louisa Schein, Li Zhang

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Sociologie, société et politique

Biological anthropology

China

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	21 mars 2001
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822381334
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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CHINA URBAN

CHINA URBANEthnographies of Contemporary Culture

Edited by Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark, Suzanne Z. Gottschang,

and Lyn Je√eryDuke University Press

Durham & London 2001

∫All rights reserved2001 Duke University Press Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$ Designed by Rebecca M. Giménez Typeset in Minion with Futura display by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

For Sami—nc

For Chaya—cc

To my sisters, Kelley Gottschang and Michele Meisner—sg

In the spirit of sisterhood that carried this project, to my sweet sister Elizabeth Je√ery—lj

Contents

Editors’ Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One

Xia Hai: Ethnographies of Work and Leisure

Lyn Je√eryPlacing Practices: Transnational Network Marketing in Mainland China 23

Lisa Ho√manGuiding College Graduates to Work: Social Constructions of Labor Markets in Dalian 43

Robert EﬁrdRock in a Hard Place: Music and the Market in Nineties Beijing 67

Part Two

Gender, Bodies, and Consumer Culture

Suzanne Z. GottschangThe Consuming Mother: Infant Feeding and the Feminine Body in Urban China 89

Constance D. ClarkForeign Marriage, ‘‘Tradition,’’ and the Politics of Border Crossings 104

Susan BrownellMaking Dream Bodies in Beijing: Athletes, Fashion Models, and Urban Mystique in China 123

Sandra Teresa HydeSex Tourism Practices on the Periphery: Eroticizing Ethnicity and Pathologizing Sex on the Lancang 143

Part Three

Negotiating Urban Spaces

Nancy N. ChenHealth, Wealth, and the Good Life

165

Lida JunghansRailway Workers between Plan and Market

183

Li ZhangContesting Crime, Order, and Migrant Spaces in Beijing

Part Four

Expressions of the Urban

Louisa ScheinUrbanity, Cosmopolitanism, Consumption

225

Tad BallewXiaxiang for the ’90s: The ShanghaitvRural Channel and Post-Mao Urbanity amid Global Swirl 242

Ellen HertzFace in the Crowd: The Cultural Construction of Anonymity in Urban China 274

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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Editors’ Acknowledgments

It has been an exciting and stimulating process to bring to fruition a project that began with a series of discussions among the editors and other anthropologists conducting ﬁeld research in Beijing during the fall of 1995. Since those meetings, we have received intellectual, ﬁnancial, and logistical support from numerous people and institutions. We want to especially thank Virginia Cornue for her participation in the formative stages of this project. The chapters in this volume were ﬁrst presented at a workshop held on September 27–28, 1997, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Fi-nancial support for the workshop was provided by a Paciﬁc Rim Research Program workshop grant from the University of California O≈ce of the President. Additional support came from the Department of Anthropol-ogy and the Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz and the Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley. The workshop would not have been possible without Cheryl Barkey’s assistance and support. In addition to the contributors in the volume, we would also like to thank Xin Liu, Hai Ren, Dawn Einwalter, and Virginia Cornue for their presentations at the workshop. The presenters beneﬁted from the intellectual insights and suggestions of panel discussants: Ann Anagnost, Aihwa Ong, Lisa Rofel, and Mayfair Yang. Raoul Birnbaum, Gail Hershatter, Emily Honig, and Bruce Larkin generously assisted in chairing the panels. Tani Barlow, Madeleine Dong Yue, Tom Gold, Greg Guldin, and Tim Oakes provided additional inspiration throughout the workshop. The ﬁnal version of the volume has beneﬁted from a careful reading and incisive suggestions by Stevan Harrell and an anonymous reviewer

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