Driving toward modernity cars and the lives of the middle class in contemporary China Zhang, Jun 1977- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. nyu 2019 monographic eng remote 1 online resource. Introduction : a mobile lifestyle, a middle way of living -- Prologue : from official privileges to consumer goods : the changing political economy of automobiles -- Driving alone together: sociality, solidarity, and status -- Family cars, filial consumer-citizens : becoming properly middle class -- The emerging middle class and the car market : mobilities and trajectories -- Car crash, class encounter : anxiety of mobility -- Bidding for a license plate : the importance of being a free and proper consumer -- Parking : contesting space in middle-class complexes. Jun Zhang. Electronic resource. Includes bibliographical references and index. a-cc-kn a-cc--- Middle class China Guangdong Sheng Automobile ownership China Guangdong Sheng Automobiles Social aspects China Guangdong Sheng China Economic conditions 2000- Economic development China History 21st century Since 2000 fast HT690.C55 Z43 2019 305.5/5095127 Driving toward modernity Zhang, Jun, 1977- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019 (DLC) 2018044262 9781501738425 1501738429 9781501738418 1501738410 9781501738395 2018048271 22573/ctvfb8q9k JSTOR http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvfc51km NhCcYBP 181009 20210422112956.0 in00004400996