附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-321) and index.
Placing practices: transnational network marketing in mainland China / Lyn Jeffery -- Guiding college graduates to work: social constructions of labor markets in Dalian / Lisa Hoffman -- Rock in a hard place: music and the market in nineties Beijing / Robert Efird -- The consuming mother: infant feeding and the feminine body in urban China / Suzanne Z. Gottschang -- Foreign marriage, "tradition," and the politics of border crossings / Constance D. Clark -- Making dream bodies in Beijing: athletes, fashion models, and urban mystique in China / Susan Brownell -- Sex tourism practices on the periphery: eroticizing ethnicity and pathologizing sex on the Lancang / Sandra Teresa Hyde -- Health, wealth, and the good life / Nancy N. Chen -- Railway workers between plan and market / Lida Junghans -- Contesting crime, order, and migrant spaces in Beijing / Li Zhang -- Urbanity, cosmopolitanism, consumption / Louisa Schein -- Xiaxiang for the '90s: the Shanghai TV rural channel and post-Mao urbanity amid global swirl / Tad Ballew -- Face in the crowd: the cultural construction of anonymity in urban China / Ellen Hertz.
摘要:China Urban is an ethnographic account of China's cities and the place that urban space holds in China's imagination. In addition to investigating this nation's rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the 'urban' and the utility of urban-focused anthropological critiques during a period of unprecedented change on local, regional, national, and global levels. Through close attention to everyday lives and narratives and with a particular focus on gender, market, and spatial practices, this collection stresses that, in the case of China, rural life and the impact of socialism must be considered in order to fully comprehend the urban. Individual essays note the impact of legal barriers to geographic mobility in China, the proliferation of different urban centers, the different distribution of resources among various regions, and the pervasive appeal of the urban, both in terms of living in cities and in acquiring products and conventions signaling urbanity. Others focus on the direct sales industry, the Chinese rock music market, the discursive production of femininity and motherhood in urban hospitals, and the transformations in access to healthcare.
