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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801459436
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: In Search of ParadiseDDC classification:
  • 305.5/5095135
LOC classification:
  • HD7368
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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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.

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