Driving Toward Modernity: Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in Contemporary China

by Jun Zhang

Book Overview

Anthropology

In Driving toward Modernity, Jun Zhang ethnographically explores the entanglement between the rise of the automotive regime and emergence of the middle class in South China. Focusing on the Pearl River Delta, one of the nation's wealthiest regions, Zhang shows how private cars have shaped everyday middle-class sociality, solidarity, and subjectivity, and how the automotive regime has helped make the new middle classes of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501738402
• ISBN13: 9781501738401
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher