Suburban Beijing: Housing and Consumption in Contemporary China

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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. 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.

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"Suburban Beijing offers a timely, vivid, and fresh account and a thoughtful analysis of urban housing in China. Friederike Fleischer, a perceptive and careful researcher, draws on firsthand observations, with informative reviews of literature, history, and geography, skillfully weaving a contemporary portrait in both history and location." Feng Wang, author of Boundaries and Categories: Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China

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Friederike Fleischer is assistant professor at the University of los Andes, Bogot, Colombia.