| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Gated communities in China :/ Pow Choon-Piew. |
| Reminder of title: |
class, privilege and the moral politics of the good life / |
| Author: |
Choon-Piew, Pow |
| Published: |
London ;Routledge, : 2009., |
| Description: |
[iv], 214 p. :ill., maps, plans ;25 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Gated communities - China - |
| ISBN: |
9780415478106 (hbk.) : |