Contesting Citizenship in Urban China

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper employed a set of quantitative methods using employee-level field data that they collected in Urumqi in 2008 to identify distinct segments within the labor market and argue that migration is a major driver of labor market segmentation.

TL;DR: This paper explored a theory of the romantic reappraisal of Chinese consumer values, drawing upon the romantic period which followed the industrial revolution in Britain and Western Europe in the late 18th century, and argued that the recent commodification and proliferation of idyllicized representations of rurality indicates a paradigm shift in Chinese consumer perceptions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of gender in the case of bed sharing in an extreme form of shared housing, the case where unrelated individuals sleep in the same bed and share the same room.

TL;DR: This article argued that service interactions can serve as key sites for the recognition and performance of class distinctions in urban China and developed the concept of distinction work to describe service work in which a key part of the service interaction becomes the recognition of a customer's class position.