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In Search of Paradise : Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis.

Zhang, Li.

In Search of Paradise : Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (265 pages)

In Search of Paradise -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Farewell to Welfare Housing -- 2. Unlocking the Real Estate Machine -- 3. Emerging Landscapes of Living -- 4. Spatializing Class -- 5. Accumulation by Displacement -- 6. Recasting Self-Worth -- 7. Privatizing Community Governing and Its Limits -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index.

"An engaging ethnography of the very different ways in which individuals, families, and social strata in China are affected by the experience of homeownership."--Luigi Tomba, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

9780801459436


Housing -- China -- Kunming Shi.
Real estate business -- China -- Kunming Shi.
Middle class -- China -- Kunming Shi.
Privatization -- China -- Kunming Shi.
Land use -- China -- Kunming Shi.
City planning -- China -- Kunming Shi.
Kunming Shi (China) -- Geography.


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