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Gated communities in China : class, privilege and the moral politics of the good life / Pow Choon-Piew.

By: Series: Publication details: London : Routledge, 2009.Description: 214 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780415478106 (hbk.)
  • 0415478103 (hbk.)
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Contents:
Introduction: gated communities and the lure of the good life -- Making middle-class spaces: privilege, territoriality and the moral geographies of exclusion -- Urban reform, the new middle-class and the emergence of gated communities in Shanghai -- Imagineering suburbia: contested representations of the Chinese dream home -- Seeking privacy and seclusion: private property, individualism and neoliberal subjectivities -- Maintaining order and civility: purified spaces and the paradox of gated living -- Beyond the gates: a geographical-moral critique.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: gated communities and the lure of the good life -- Making middle-class spaces: privilege, territoriality and the moral geographies of exclusion -- Urban reform, the new middle-class and the emergence of gated communities in Shanghai -- Imagineering suburbia: contested representations of the Chinese dream home -- Seeking privacy and seclusion: private property, individualism and neoliberal subjectivities -- Maintaining order and civility: purified spaces and the paradox of gated living -- Beyond the gates: a geographical-moral critique.

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