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Author:   Deborah S Davis
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   22
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780520216402

ISBN 10:   0520216407
Pages:   379
Publication Date:   20 January 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Table Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: A Revolution in Consumption, by Deborah S. Davis 2. Inventing Oasis: Luxury Housing Advertisements in Reconfiguring Domestic Space in Shanghai, by David Fraser 3. Commercializing Childhood: Parental Purchases for Shanghai's Only Child, by Deborah S. Davis and Julia S. Sensenbrenner 4. What's in a Dress? Brides in the Hui Quarter of Xi'an, by Maris Gillette 5. The Revitalization of the Marketplace: Food Markets of Nanjing, by Ann Veeck 6. To Be Relatively Comfortable in an Egalatarian Society, by Hanlong Lu 7. Heart-to-Heart, Phone-to-Phone: Family Values, Sexuality, and the Politics of Shanghai's Advice Hotlines, by Kathleen Erwin 8. Greeting Cards in China: Mixed Language in Connections and Affections, by Mary S. Erbaugh 9. Of Hamburger and Social Space: Consuming McDonald's in Beijing, by Yunxiang Yan 10. Dancing through the Market Transition: Disco and Dance Hall Sociability in Shanghai, by James Farrer 11. Cultivating Friendship through Bowling in Shenzhen, by Gan Wang 12. Cigarettes and Domination in Chinese Business Networks: Institutional Change during the Market Transition, by David L. Wank 13. Public Monuments and Private Pleasures in the Parks of Nanjing: A Tango in the Ruins of the Ming, by Richard Kraus 14. Epilogue: The Second Liberation, by Richard Madsen Contributors Bibliography Index

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The definite book on China's consumer revolution. The volume examines how, during the past decade of market reform, China's growing private consumerism is replacing the Maoist egalitarian society oriented toward goods provided publicly or in the workplace. --Choice

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Deborah S. Davis, Professor of Sociology at Yale University, is the author of Long Lives: Chinese Elderly and the Communist Revolution (1991) and coeditor of Chinese Society on the Eve of Tiananmen (1990), Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (California, 1993), and Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China (1995).

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