In the last decade of the twentieth century, one of the most
fundamental changes in urban China has been the expansion and
privatization of housing, with per capita housing space increasing
by more than 50 percent. As a result, ordinary citizens in urban
China have started to cultivate personal space and have a new
incentive to make more money, and wealth is being stratified.
Suburban Beijing documents this process, analyzing its underlying
forces and its ramifications for redefining the Chinese social
landscape. Friederike Fleischer depicts the way Chinese residents
in Wangjing, a Beijing suburb, have been affected by the recent
transformation in their housing, showing how the suburb developed
from its antecedents as a Maoist industrial production zone to its
present status as China's first middle-class residential area. The
new suburban middle class live side by side with retired workers
and with rural-to-urban migrants. Fleischer describes how all three
groups share the same neighborhood, highlighting both the
similarities and the growing differences between these groups of
suburban residents in a rapidly evolving China.
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