TY - BOOK AU - Zhang,Li AU - Ong,Aihwa TI - Privatizing China : socialism from afar SN - 9780801473784 AV - HD4318 .P755 2008 U1 - 338.95105 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Privatization KW - Social aspects KW - China KW - Congresses KW - Communism and individualism KW - Socialism KW - Social ethics KW - Social conditions KW - 1976-2000 KW - 2000- KW - Social policy KW - Economic conditions KW - Economic policy N1 - Papers originally presented at a conference held in Shanghai, China, June 27-29, 2004; Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-270) and index; Introduction : privatizing China : powers of the self, socialism from afar / Aihwa Ong and Li Zhang -- Private homes, distinct lifestyles : performing a new middle class / Li Zhang -- Property rights and homeowner activism in new neighborhoods / Benjamin L. Read -- Socialist land masters : the territorial politics of accumulation / You-tien Hsing -- Tax tensions : struggles over income and revenue / Bei Li and Steven M. Sheffrin -- "Reorganized moralism" : the politics of transnational labor codes / Pun Ngai -- Neoliberalism and Hmong/Miao transnational media ventures / Louisa Schein -- Consuming medicine and biotechnology in China / Nancy N. Chen -- Should I quit? : tobacco, fraught identity, and the risks of governmentality / Matthew Kohrman -- Wild consumptions : relocating responsibilities in the time of SARS / Mei Zhan -- Post-Mao professionalism : self-enterprise and patriotism / Lisa M. Hoffman -- Self-fashioning Shanghainese : dancing across spheres of value / Aihwa Ong -- Living buddhas, netizens, and the price of religious freedom / Dan Smyer Yü -- Privatizing control : Internet cafés in China / Zhou Yongming -- Afterword : thinking outside the Leninist corporate box / Ralph A. Litzinger ER -