Main entry:

Fleischer, Friederike.

Title & Author:

Suburban Beijing : housing and consumption in contemporary China / Friederike Fleischer.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.

Description:

xxxv, 219 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-205) and index.
Transforming suburban life in China -- A history of Wangjing : building the suburban industrial zone -- Reforming the state sector, opening the private sector : changing the suburban experience -- Daily life in Wangjing : from exclusive high-rise to crumbling compound -- Socioeconomic differences : emerging market forces, diverging values -- Consumption and the geography of space and social status -- Social stratification, consumption, and housing.

Summary:

"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."--Wang Feng, author of Boundaries and Categories: Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China.
In the last decade of the twentieth century, one of the most fundamental changes in urban China was 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 started to cultivate personal space and had a new incentive to make more money, and wealth became stratified.
Suburban Beijing documents this process, analyzing its underlying forces and its ramifications for redefining the Chinese social landscape. Friederike Fleischer depicts how residents of Wangjing, a Beijing suburb, have been affected by the recent transformation in their housing, showing how the suburb developed from its antecedents as a Maoist industrial production zone to its present status as China's first middle-class residential area.
The new suburban middle class lives side by side with retired workers and rural-to-urban migrants. Fleischer describes how all three groups share the same neighborhood, highlighting both the similarities and the growing differences among these groups of suburban residents in a rapidly evolving China. --Book Jacket.

Resources:
Full text available from EBSCO PALCI DDA Purchased Titles 2015

ISBN:

9780816645961 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816645965 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816665877 (pb ; alk. paper)
0816665877 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Suburban life China Beijing.
Vie de la banlieue Chine Pékin.
Economic history.
Social conditions.
Suburban life.
Vorort.
Alltag.
Soziale Situation.
Wirtschaftliche Lage.
Wangjing (Beijing, China) Social conditions.
Wangjing (Beijing, China) Economic conditions.
Wangjing (Beijing, China) History.
China Beijing.
Peking.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270744
Call No.: BIB 203582
Status: Available