Driving toward Modernity

Driving toward Modernity
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 237
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ISBN-10 : 9781501738418
ISBN-13 : 1501738410
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Book Synopsis Driving toward Modernity by : Jun Zhang

Download or read book Driving toward Modernity written by Jun Zhang and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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