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.
| ISBN: | 9781501738401 |
| Publication date: | 15th October 2019 |
| Author: | Jun Zhang |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology Asian history Road and motor vehicles: general interest |
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.
Driving Toward Modernity features in the following genres: Social and cultural anthropology, Asian history, Road and motor vehicles: general interest
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Driving Toward Modernity was written by Jun Zhang and published by Cornell University Press
Driving Toward Modernity has 240 pages
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