{"product_id":"privatizing-china-9780801445965","title":"Privatizing China","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Li Zhang | Aihwa Ong\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Development - Economic Development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryday life in China is increasingly shaped by a novel mix of neoliberal and socialist elements, of individual choices and state objectives. This combination of self-determination and socialism from afar has incited profound changes in the ways individuals think and act in different spheres of society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovering a vast range of daily life--from homeowner organizations and the users of Internet cafes to self-directed professionals and informed consumers--the essays in \u003ci\u003ePrivatizing China\u003c\/i\u003e create a compelling picture of the burgeoning awareness of self-governing within the postsocialist context. The introduction by Aihwa Ong and Li Zhang presents assemblage as a concept for studying China as a unique postsocialist society created through interactions with global forms.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe authors conduct their ethnographic fieldwork in a spectrum of domains--family, community, real estate, business, taxation, politics, labor, health, professions, religion, and consumption--that are infiltrated by new techniques of the self and yet also regulated by broader socialist norms. \u003ci\u003ePrivatizing China\u003c\/i\u003e gives readers a grounded, fine-grained intimacy with the variety and complexity of everyday conduct in China's turbulent transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47584790806679,"sku":"9780801445965","price":16564.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780801445965.webp?v=1774957889","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/privatizing-china-9780801445965","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}