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Hygiene, Sociality, and Culture in Contemporary Rural China The Uncanny New Village
By Lili Lai
Copyright 2016
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book presents a new perspective on attempts by the contemporary Chinese government to transform the diverse conditions found in countless rural villages into what the state's social welfare program deems 'socialist new villages'. Lili Lai argues that an ethnographic focus on the specifics of village life can help destabilize China's persistent rural-urban divide and help contribute to more... Read more
PREFACE, CHAPTER ONE: THE LOCAL INTIMACIES OF CHINA'S RURAL-URBAN DIVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF SHANG VILLAGE CHAPTER TWO: DIRT, HYGIENE, HABITUS CHAPTER THREE: IMMANENT SOCIALITY: OPEN-ENDED BELONGING CHAPTER FOUR: CULTURE PLAZA - WHY CULTURE? WHOSE PLAZA? CHAPTER FIVE: THE UNCANNY NEW VILLAGE, REFERENCES.
Biography
Dr. Lili Lai, Institute of Medical Humanities, guest editor of a special issue entitled The Local Intimacies of China's Rural-Urban Divide of Positions Volume 22, Issue 3, 2014, Duke University Press.
