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Suburban Beijing: Housing and Consumption in Contemporary China
Friederike Fleischer
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Description for Suburban Beijing: Housing and Consumption in Contemporary China
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
In the last decade of the twentieth century, one of the most fundamental changes in urban China has been the expansion and privatization of housing, with per capita housing space increasing by more than 50 percent. As a result, ordinary citizens in urban China have started to cultivate personal space and have a new incentive to make more money, and wealth is being stratified.
Suburban Beijing documents this process, analyzing its underlying forces and its ramifications for redefining the Chinese social landscape. Friederike Fleischer depicts the way Chinese residents in Wangjing, a Beijing suburb, have been affected by the recent ... Read more
In the last decade of the twentieth century, one of the most fundamental changes in urban China has been the expansion and privatization of housing, with per capita housing space increasing by more than 50 percent. As a result, ordinary citizens in urban China have started to cultivate personal space and have a new incentive to make more money, and wealth is being stratified.
Suburban Beijing documents this process, analyzing its underlying forces and its ramifications for redefining the Chinese social landscape. Friederike Fleischer depicts the way Chinese residents in Wangjing, a Beijing suburb, have been affected by the recent ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816665877
SKU
V9780816665877
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About Friederike Fleischer
Friederike Fleischer is assistant professor at the University of los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Reviews for Suburban Beijing: Housing and Consumption in Contemporary China
"Suburban Beijing offers a timely, vivid, and fresh account and a thoughtful analysis of urban housing in China. Friederike Fleischer, a perceptive and careful researcher, draws on firsthand observations, with informative reviews of literature, history, and geography, skillfully weaving a contemporary portrait in both history and location." —Feng Wang, author of Boundaries and Categories: Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China ... Read more