The transition study of postsocialist China : an ethnographic study of a model community

The transition study of postsocialist China : an ethnographic study of a model community / Wing-Chung Ho.

There is no denying that China has experienced, and is still experiencing, radical changes, generally initiated by the vibrant market-driven economy that began in the late 1970s. The question remains, however, of what has happened to those who, just a few decades before, experienced pride and power...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ho, Wing-Chung
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Pub., ©2010.
Series:Series on contemporary China ; v. 25.
Subjects:
Since 1976
Social change > China > Shanghai > Case studies.
Communities > Social aspects > China > Shanghai.
Socialism > China > Shanghai.
HISTORY.
Communities > Social aspects
Social change
Social conditions
Socialism
Soziale Situation
Gemeinschaft
Social förändring > Kina > Shanghai > fallstudier.
China > Social conditions > 1976-2000.
China > Social conditions > 2000-
China
China > Shanghai
Schanghai
Kina > sociala förhållanden > 1949-
Case studies
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Encountering a forgotten people, experiencing social change
  • 2. The (un- ) making of a socialist "Model community" : Heterogeneous appropriations of the past
  • 3. Binding up the "Loose sand" : The rise and fall of collectivism
  • 4. Building up modernity : The spatial representations of state power
  • 5. Negotiating subalternity : "Model proletarians" or "Society people"?
  • 6. Facing up to the postsocialist future : Public amnesia and multiple modernities
  • 7. Conclusion : Experiencing an ideology that truncates time and space
  • 8. Epilogue : Revisiting cucumber lane in 2008.

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