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Driving Toward Modernity: Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in Contemporary China

Driving Toward Modernity: Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in Contemporary China

Zhang, Jun

Hardcover

AnthropologyAutomobilesChinese History

ISBN10: 1501738399
ISBN13: 9781501738395
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Oct 15 2019
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 subjectivity, and how the automotive regime has helped make the new middle classes of the PRC. By carefully analyzing how physical and social mobility intertwines, Driving toward Modernity paints a nuanced picture of modern Chinese life, comprising the continuity and rupture as well as the structure and agency of China's great transformation.

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