Claiming Homes: Confronting Domicide in Rural China

by Charlotte Bruckermann

Chinese citizens make themselves at home despite economic transformation, political rupture, and domestic dislocation in the contemporary countryside. By mobilizing labor and kinship to make claims over homes, people, and things, rural residents withstand devaluation and confront dispossession. As a particular configuration of red capitalism and socialist sovereignty takes root, this process challenges the relationship between the politics of place...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789203570
• ISBN13: 9781789203578
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"