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China's Housing Middle Class - Changing Urban Life in Gated Communities (Hardcover)
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China's Housing Middle Class - Changing Urban Life in Gated Communities (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition
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Home ownership plays a significant role in locating the middle
class in most western societies, associated with market,
consumerism, democracy and "people like us", the significant
features of the middle class for any society. In China, private
home ownership was not the norm from 1949, when the Chinese
Communist Party took power, until the 1990s. In the past three
decades, however, there has been a fast growing housing consumption
and private homeowners have become the most significantly changing
aspect of Chinese urban life. In particular, the rise of gated
communities has become a predominant feature of the urban
landscape. Similar to their western counterparts, the gated
communities in China exemplify "high status" symbols with enclosed
and restricted residential areas, exclusive community parks and
recreational facilities, and professional management and security
services. But different from western societies where gated
communities usually represent luxurious lifestyles only limited to
a small group of people, in urban China gated communities have
become one major form of supply in the housing market and one of
the most popular and desirable choices for homebuyers. Private home
ownership and residency in gated communities, altogether
characterize the most significant aspect of comfort living and
distinct lifestyles of China's new middle classes who have
successfully got ahead in the socialist market economy. This book
examines the formation of "China's housing middle class". It
develops a theoretical argument about, and provides empirical
evidence of the heterogeneity of China's new middle class, which
underlines the relations between the state, market and life chances
under a socialist market economy. As such it will be of huge
interest to students and scholars of Chinese society, sociology and
politics.
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