Privatizing China
Subtitle: socialism from afar
By: edited by Li Zhang and Aihwa Ong.
Contributors: Zhang, Li, 1965-; Ong, Aihwa.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780801445965; 9780801473784
Subjects: Privatization -- Social aspects -- China -- Congresses; Communism and individualism -- China -- Congresses; Socialism -- China -- Congresses; Social ethics -- China -- Congresses; China -- Social conditions -- 1976-2000 -- Congresses; China -- Social conditions -- 2000- -- Congresses; China -- Social policy -- Congresses; China -- Economic conditions -- 1976-2000 -- Congresses; China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- -- Congresses; China -- Economic policy -- 1976-2000 -- Congresses; China -- Economic policy -- 2000- -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers originally presented at a conference held in Shanghai, China, June 27-29, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : privatizing China : powers of the self, socialism from afar / Aihwa Ong and Li Zhang; title: Private homes, distinct lifestyles : performing a new middle class / Li Zhang; title: Property rights and homeowner activism in new neighborhoods / Benjamin L. Read; title: Socialist land masters : the territorial politics of accumulation / You-tien Hsing; title: Tax tensions : struggles over income and revenue / Bei Li and Steven M. Sheffrin; title: "Reorganized moralism" : the politics of transnational labor codes / Pun Ngai; title: Neoliberalism and Hmong/Miao transnational media ventures / Louisa Schein; title: Consuming medicine and biotechnology in China / Nancy N. Chen; title: Should I quit? : tobacco, fraught identity, and the risks of governmentality / Matthew Kohrman; title: Wild consumptions : relocating responsibilities in the time of SARS / Mei Zhan; title: Post-Mao professionalism : self-enterprise and patriotism / Lisa M. Hoffman; title: Self-fashioning Shanghainese : dancing across spheres of value / Aihwa Ong; title: Living buddhas, netizens, and the price of religious freedom / Dan Smyer Yü; title: Privatizing control : Internet cafés in China / Zhou Yongming; title: Afterword : thinking outside the Leninist corporate box / Ralph A. Litzinger.