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Tables of Contents for China Urban
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editors' Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
22
Part One Xia Hai: Ethnographies of Work and Leisure
Placing Practices: Transnational Network Marketing in Mainland China
23
20
Lyn Jeffery
Guiding College Graduates to Work: Social Constructions of Labor Markets in Dalian
43
24
Lisa Hoffman
Rock in a Hard Place: Music and the Market in Nineties Beijing
67
22
Robert Efird
Part Two Gender, Bodies, and Consumer Culture
The Consuming Mother: Infant Feeding and the Feminine Body in Urban China
89
15
Suzanne Z. Gottschang
Foreign Marriage, ``Tradition,'' and the Politics of Border Crossings
104
19
Constance D. Clark
Making Dream Bodies in Beijing: Athletes, Fashion Models, and Urban Mystique in China
123
20
Susan Brownell
Sex Tourism Practices on the Periphery: Eroticizing Ethnicity and Pathologizing Sex on the Lancang
143
22
Sandra Teresa Hyde
Part Three Negotiating Urban Spaces
Health, Wealth, and the Good Life
165
18
Nancy N. Chen
Railway Workers between Plan and Market
183
18
Lida Junghans
Contesting Crime, Order, and Migrant Spaces in Beijing
201
24
Li Zhang
Part Four Expressions of the Urban
Urbanity, Cosmopolitanism, Consumption
225
17
Louisa Schein
Xiaxiang for the '90s: The Shanghai TV Rural Channel and Post-Mao Urbanity amid Global Swirl
242
32
Tad Ballew
Face in the Crowd: The Cultural Construction of Anonymity in Urban China
274
21
Ellen Hertz
Bibliography
295
28
Contributors
323
2
Index
325