Consumption practices in China have been transformed at an unprecedented pace. Under Mao Zedong, the state controlled nearly all aspects of what people consumed

Recent decades have seen China's domestic consumption in sectors such as food, housing, health care, education and travel greatly increase. This important book

This book examines how heritage interacts with social-cultural changes and how individuals perform and negotiate their identities through daily practices that i

In this major new study, Margherita Zanasi argues that basic notions of a free market economy emerged in China a century and half earlier than in Europe. In res

This wide-ranging collection of essays by leading sociologists on the new consumerism of post-economic-reform China is an important contribution to our understa