CHINA URBAN Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture

Edited by Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark, Suzanne Z. Gottschang, and Lyn Je√ery _ Duke University Press Durham & London 2001

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Contents

Editors’ Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part One Xia Hai: Ethnographies of Work and Leisure

Lyn Je√ery Placing Practices: Transnational Network Marketingin Mainland China 23

Lisa Ho√man Guiding College Graduates to Work:Social Constructions of Labor Markets in Dalian 43

Robert Efird Rock in a Hard Place: Music and the Market inNineties Beijing 67

Part Two Gender, Bodies, and Consumer Culture

Suzanne Z. Gottschang The Consuming Mother: Infant Feedingand the Feminine Body in Urban China 89

Constance D. Clark Foreign Marriage, ‘‘Tradition,’’ andthe Politics of Border Crossings 104

Susan Brownell Making Dream Bodies in Beijing: Athletes,Fashion Models, and Urban Mystique in China 123

Sandra Teresa Hyde Sex Tourism Practices on the Periphery:Eroticizing Ethnicity and Pathologizing Sex on the Lancang 143

Part Three Negotiating Urban Spaces

Nancy N. Chen Health, Wealth, and the Good Life 165

Lida Junghans Railway Workers between Plan and Market 183

Li Zhang Contesting Crime, Order, and Migrant Spaces in Beijing 201

Part Four Expressions of the Urban

Louisa Schein Urbanity, Cosmopolitanism, Consumption 225Tad Ballew Xiaxiang for the ’90s: The Shanghai tv Rural ChannelEllen Hertz Face in the Crowd: The Cultural ConstructionIndex 325

and Post-Mao Urbanity amid Global Swirl 242

of Anonymity in Urban China 274

Bibliography 295

Contributors 323