Gated communities in China [electronic resource] : class, privilege and the moral politics of the good life / Pow Choon-Piew.
By: Pow, Choon-Piew.
Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm).
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BookSeries: Routledge Pacific Rim geographies (2007): 7.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009Description: 214 p. : ill., maps, plans.Subject(s): Gated communities -- China -- Shanghai | Middle class -- China -- ShanghaiGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 307.770951/132 Online resources: Click to View | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: gated communities and the lure of the good life -- Making middle-class spaces: privilege, territoriality and the moral geographies of exclusion -- Urban reform, the new middle-class and the emergence of gated communities in Shanghai -- Imagineering suburbia: contested representations of the Chinese dream home -- Seeking privacy and seclusion: private property, individualism and neoliberal subjectivities -- Maintaining order and civility: purified spaces and the paradox of gated living -- Beyond the gates: a geographical-moral critique.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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