Consumer Revolution in Urban China

Deborah S. Davis, Professor of Sociology at Yale University, is the author of Long Lives: Chinese Elderly and the Communist Revolution (1991) and coeditor of Chinese Society on the Eve of Tiananmen (1990), Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (California, 1993), and Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China (1995).

• List of Figures and Table Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: A Revolution in Consumption, by Deborah S. Davis 2. Inventing Oasis: Luxury Housing Advertisements in Reconfiguring Domestic Space in Shanghai, by David Fraser 3. Commercializing Childhood: Parental Purchases for Shanghai's Only Child, by Deborah S. Davis and Julia S. Sensenbrenner 4. What's in a Dress? Brides in the Hui Quarter of Xi'an, by Maris Gillette 5. The Revitalization of the Marketplace: Food Markets of Nanjing, by Ann Veeck 6. To Be Relatively Comfortable in an Egalatarian Society, by Hanlong Lu 7. Heart-to-Heart, Phone-to-Phone: Family Values, Sexuality, and the Politics of Shanghai's Advice Hotlines, by Kathleen Erwin 8. Greeting Cards in China: Mixed Language in Connections and Affections, by Mary S. Erbaugh 9. Of Hamburger and Social Space: Consuming McDonald's in Beijing, by Yunxiang Yan 10. Dancing through the Market Transition: Disco and Dance Hall Sociability in Shanghai, by James Farrer 11. Cultivating Friendship through Bowling in Shenzhen, by Gan Wang 12. Cigarettes and Domination in Chinese Business Networks: Institutional Change during the Market Transition, by David L. Wank 13. Public Monuments and Private Pleasures in the Parks of Nanjing: A Tango in the Ruins of the Ming, by Richard Kraus 14. Epilogue: The Second Liberation, by Richard Madsen Contributors Bibliography Index