Driving Toward Modernity Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in Contemporary China |
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| Author:
| Zhang, Jun |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5017-3840-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2019 |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $30.95 |
Book Description:
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In Driving toward Modernity, Jun Zhang ethnographically explores the entanglement between the rise of the automotive regime and emergence of the middle class in South China. Focusing on the Pearl River Delta, one of the nation's wealthiest regions, Zhang shows how private cars have shaped everyday middle-class sociality, solidarity, and...
In Driving toward Modernity, Jun Zhang ethnographically explores the entanglement between the rise of the automotive regime and emergence of the middle class in South China. Focusing on the Pearl River Delta, one of the nation's wealthiest regions, Zhang shows how private cars have shaped everyday middle-class sociality, solidarity, and...