The Chinese Lifestyle: The Reconfiguration of the Middle Class in Contemporary China

ISBN-13: 9781032289557 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

Alfonso Sanchez-Romera

Opis

The research presented in this book explores the formation of the middle class in contemporary urban China.

Spis treści

Intoduction: The Paradigm of the Middle Class in Contemporary China 1. The Discursive Reconfiguration: Class and Discourse Construction After Reform 2. The Intellectual Reconfiguration: Definitions, Ideology and the Hidden Agenda 3. Class Reproduction, Consumption, and Inequality: The Reconfiguration of the Trajectories from the Centre 4. Celebrities, Happiness, and Romance. The Reconfiguration of the Motivations to Achieve 5. Friends, Family, and the Community. The Reconfiguration of the Public and Private Spheres 6. Conclusion: New Configurations to a Post-Pandemic Future

O autorze

Alfonso Sánchez-Romera is a researcher at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (InterAsia Research Group) and postdoctoral fellow at Freie Universität Berlin. He graduated in Humanities and East Asian Studies and holds a PhD in Intercultural Studies. His research interests include middle class, Chinese society and discourse analysis.