Streetlife China /
Collection of articles by various Chinese writers about life in contemporary China.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Cambridge modern China series
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Rights, traditions, daily life and deviance. Rights and traditions ; Daily life in the work unit ; Defining 'outsiders', labelling liumang
- Part 2: The 'strategies' of government and 'tactics' of the subaltern. Analysis ; Government strategies ; Subaltern tactics, government response
- Part 3: Naming, framing, marking. Naming ; Framing ; Marking
- Part 4. The architecture of life. City space ; Social relations and the architecture of life ; Out of the work unit ; Changing landscapes, changing mentalities
- Part 5: Stories of the fetish : tales of Chairman Mao. The badge as biography
- Part 6: Market trainings.
- Timeline on Chinese history
- Streetlife subalterns
- Part I. Rights, traditions, daily life and deviance : Rights and traditions : Human rights and Chinese tradition / Xia Yong ; The traditional Chinese view of the cosmos and the practices of daily life / Li Yiyuan ; The gift of self ; The 'gift' and the Confucian notion of propriety / Li Xu Ping
- Daily life in the work unit : People of the work unit / He Xinghan ; The work unit: a unique form of social organisation / Lu Feng ; The work unit: 'face' and place / Yi Zhongtian
- Defining 'outsiders', labelling Liumang : To be defined a Liumang / Chen Baoliang ; Second class citizen / Ge Fei ; Homosexuals in Beijing / Jin Ren
- Part II. The 'strategies' of government and 'tactics' of the subaltern : Analysis : Household registration and the caste like quality of peasant life / Gong Xikui ; From caste to class: a brief introduction to A third eye ; A third eye on China's living volcano / Leuninger ; Peasant movement: a police perspective / Yang Wenzhong and Wang Gongfan
- Government strategies (1) : The resident identity card and the household register / Zhang Qingwu ; Registration files, registration cards / Yu Lei ; Beijing's fee for residency scheme ; User pays Beijing / Zhou Daping ; The 'bill' of Beef Street ; Mass line policing: Weikeng Public Security Committee, Beijing / Feng Rui
- Government strategies (2) : The special professions / Yu Lei ; The special population / Yu Lei ; Beggars, prostitutes and undesirables: the internal rules of the state ; Transient beggars in the city ; Prostitution ; Female education and fostering centre
- Subaltern tactics, government response : Nursing change ; Beijing Baomu: taking Beijing people's money and doing Beijingers' work / Sun Xiaomei ; 'Baomu blues' ; 'Life on the outside' ; Zhejiang Village, Beijing: a visit ; Zhejiang Village, Beijing: a government tale
- Part III. Naming, framing, marking : Naming : Revolutionary culture / Yang Dongping ; What's in a name: revolutionary China and the new cosmology of the name / Yang Dongping ; What's in a name: traditional Chinese cosmology and naming / Li Yiyuan
- Framing : The body according the acupuncturist ; Mao's body as acupunctural art ; Male body parts ; Female body parts ; Slang relating to police
- Marking : The world of the tattoo / Xu Yiqing and Zhang Hexian ; Tattoos: a revival / Gao Jian ; The tattoos of the criminal / Jiang Fuyuan
- Part IV. The architecture of life : City space : Traditional Chinese architecture and hierarchy / Zhao Dongri ; On Beijing / Yang Dongping ; Beijing: the city as compound / Zhao Dongri
- Social relations and the architecture of life : Clans, gifts, architecture / Xu Ping ; Traditional Chinese architecture as symbolic hierarchy / Wang Shiren ; Changing compounds: from compound household to work unit / Yang Dongping
- Out of the work unit : From a 'person of the work unit' to a 'social person': psychological evolution under the impact of reform / Zho Huaxin ; 'One family, tow systems'
- Changing landscapes, changing mentalities : High risk, high rise: changes in work unit accommodation and the problem of crime / Xu Hanmin ; Compounds old and new ; Work units and high rise ; Going shopping ; Buying nation: imperial and commodified renditions of nationhood ; Mapping Mao: from cult to commodity ; From Mao map to tourist trap ; Mao badges enter the market
- Part V. Stories of the fetish: tales of Chairman Mao : The badge as biography : Introduction to the Mao badge (1) / Wang Anting ; Introduction to the Mao badge (2) / Zhou Jihou ; Stories of 'excess': Mao as gift, Mao as curse / Zhou Jihou ; An introduction to Wang Anting: China's 'badge master' / Zhou Jihou ; Interviews with the 'badge masters' Wang Anting and Dang Miao ; The story of Yan Xinlong / Zhou Jihou ; My story / Zhou Jihou ; The black hole of Mao Zedong: the art of Zhang Hongtu / Cao Zhangqing ; Chinese culture drawn into the market / Da Yang ; Mao and the revolution enter the market
- Part VI. Market trainings : Tales of the market, tales of the fetish: stories from the street.