Making Dream Bodies in Beijing: Athletes, Fashion Models, and Urban Mystique in China

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Editors’ Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One Xia Hai: Ethnographies of Work and Leisure
6. Placing Practices: Transnational Network Marketing in Mainland China 23
7. Guiding College Graduates to Work: Social Constructions of Labor Markets in Dalian 43
8. Rock in a Hard Place: Music and the Market in Nineties Beijing 67
9. Part Two Gender, Bodies, and Consumer Culture
10. The Consuming Mother: Infant Feeding and the Feminine Body in Urban China 89
11. Foreign Marriage, ‘‘Tradition,’’ and the Politics of Border Crossings 104
12. Making Dream Bodies in Beijing: Athletes, Fashion Models, and Urban Mystique in China 123
13. Sex Tourism Practices on the Periphery: Eroticizing Ethnicity and Pathologizing Sex on the Lancang 143
14. Part Three Negotiating Urban Spaces
15. Health, Wealth, and the Good Life 165
16. Railway Workers between Plan and Market 183
17. Contesting Crime, Order, and Migrant Spaces in Beijing 201
18. Part Four Expressions of the Urban
19. Urbanity, Cosmopolitanism, Consumption 225
20. Xiaxiang for the ’90s: The Shanghai tv Rural Channel and Post-Mao Urbanity amid Global Swirl 242
21. Face in the Crowd: The Cultural Construction of Anonymity in Urban China 274
22. Bibliography 295
23. Contributors 323
24. Index 325