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

Author/Contributor(s):	Zhang, Jun
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	10/15/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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...