Popular China unofficial culture in a globalizing society

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 "I Believe You Can Fly": Basketball Culture in Postsocialist China -- Andrew Morris -- 2 Corruption in Popular Culture -- Richard Levy -- 3 Village Voices, Urban Activists: Women, Violence, and Gender Inequality in Rural China -- Paul G. Pickowicz and Liping Wang -- 4 Shunkouliu: Popular Satirical Sayings and Popular Thought -- Perry Link and Kate Zhou -- 5 The Rich, the Laid-off, and the Criminal in Tabloid Tales: Read All about It! -- Yuezhi Zhao -- 6 The New Chinese Woman and Lifestyle Magazines in the Late 1990s -- Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen -- 7 The Culture of Survival: Lives of Migrant Workers through the Prism of Private Letters -- Anita Chan -- 8 The Chinese Enterprising Self: Young, Educated Urbanites and the Search for Work -- Amy Hanser -- 9 Beggars in the Sociaist Market Economy -- Leila Fernmndez-Stembridge and Richard P. Madsen -- 10 When a House Becomes His Home -- Deborah S. Davis -- 11 In Love and Gay -- Robert Geyer -- 12 Urban Experiences and Social Belonging among Chinese Rural Migrants -- Li Zhang -- Chinese Glossary -- Index -- About the Contributors.