文档介绍：CHINA URBAN:
Ethnographies of
Contemporary Culture
Nancy N. Chen, et. al
Duke University Press
CHINA URBAN
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CHINA URBAN Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture
Edited by Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark, Suzanne Z. Gottschang,
and Lyn Je√ery Duke University Press Durham & London 2001
∫ 2001 Duke University Press All rights reserved
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For Sami—nc
For
To my sisters, Kelley Gottschang
and Michele Meisner—sg
In the spirit of sisterhood that
carried this project, to my sweet
sister Elizabeth Je√ery—lj
Contents
Editors’ Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part One Xia Hai: Ethnographies of Work and Leisure
Lyn Je√ery Placing Practices: work Marketing
in Mainland China 23
Lisa Ho√man Guiding College Graduates to Work:
Social Constructions of Labor Markets in Dalian 43
Robert Efird Rock in a Hard Place: Music and the Market in
ies Beijing 67
Part Two Gender, Bodies, and Consumer Culture
Suzanne Z. Gottschang The Consuming Mother: Infant Feeding
and the Feminine Body in Urban China 89
Constance D. Clark Foreign Marriage, ‘‘Tradition,’’ and
the Politics of Border Crossings 104
Susan Brownell Making Dream Bodies in Beijing: Athletes,
Fashion Models, and Urban Mystique in China 123
Sandra Teresa Hyde Sex Tourism Practices on the Periphery:
Eroticizing Ethnicity and Pathologizing Sex on the Lancang 143
Part Three Negotiating Urban Spaces
Nancy N. Chen Health, Wealth, and the Good Life 165
Lida Junghans Railway Workers between Plan and Market 183
Li Zhang Contesting Crime, Order, and Migrant Spaces in Beijing 201
Part Four Expressions of the Urban
Louisa Schein Urbanity, Cosmopolitanism, Consumption 225
Tad Ballew Xia