China Urban

China Urban is an ethnographic account of China’s cities and the place that urban space holds in China’s imagination. In addition to in vestigating 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 loc...

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China Urban is an ethnographic account of China’s cities and the place that urban space holds in China’s imagination. In addition to in vestigating 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.

China Urban will interest anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and those studying urban planning, China, East Asia, and globalization.

Nancy Chen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her book manuscript "Breathing spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry and Bodypolitics of late Twentieth Century China" is under revision for publication.

Constance Clark teaches in the department of women studies at San Francisco State University.

Suzanne Gottschang is Luce Assistant Professor of Ea...

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Nancy Chen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her book manuscript "Breathing spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry and Bodypolitics of late Twentieth Century China" is under revision for publication.

Constance Clark teaches in the department of women studies at San Francisco State University.

Suzanne Gottschang is Luce Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Anthropology at Smith College. Her recent research is on the politics of mothering in China.

Lyn Jeffery is a doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her thesis is on the cultural construction of transnational marketing networks in mainland China.

Table of Contents
Editors’ Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One. Xia Hai: The Ethnographies of Work and Leisure
Placing Practices: Transnational Network Marketing in Mainland China / Lyn Jeffery
Guiding College Graduates to Work: Social Constructions of Labor Markets in Dalian / Lisa Hoffman
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Table of Contents
Editors’ Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One. Xia Hai: The Ethnographies of Work and Leisure
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
Part Two. Gender, Bodies, and Consumer Culture
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 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
Part Three. Negotiating Urban Spaces
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
Part Four. Expressions of the Urban
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
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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