Urban, Mobile and Global

Cartier, C

Urban, Mobile and Global

Cartier, C

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Publisher:: The Australian National University Press
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: China Story Yearbook 2014: Shared Destiny, 2015, pp. 204 - 224
Issue Date:: 2015-10

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dc.contributor.author	Cartier, C	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Barmé, GR	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Jaivin, L	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Goldkorn, J	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015-10	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	China Story Yearbook 2014: Shared Destiny, 2015, pp. 204 - 224	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-925022-94-0	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/120006
dc.description.abstract	PEOPLE IN URBAN China travel, move house and commute longer distances than ever before. They also enjoy greater opportunities to change their lifestyles or move up the social ladder. The gradual removal of historical bans imposed by the Communist Party on unauthorised movement between cities (or from the countryside to the city) as well as owning property and travelling abroad make the ease of movement — mobility — novel and exciting. Over the past year and a half, the anticorruption campaign has identified ‘excessive mobility’, as defined by all forms of ‘extravagance’ 铺张 or 奢靡 on the part of party and government officials, as being a danger to the wellbeing of the party-state. New prohibitions and regulations have put pressure on party and government officials to change their habits, alter their lifestyles and abandon any plans to establish a residential base overseas — in effect, to retreat from the Zeitgeist of mobility. This chapter considers the implications for the Shared Destiny of the Chinese in the context of movement between China and the world, particularly in relation to the Party’s seemingly stringent anti-waste regulations.	en_US
dc.publisher	The Australian National University Press	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	China Story Yearbook 2014: Shared Destiny	en_US
dc.title	Urban, Mobile and Global	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.location	Australia	en_US
utslib.for	1608 Sociology	en_US
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Abstract:

PEOPLE IN URBAN China travel, move house and commute longer distances than ever before. They also enjoy greater opportunities to change their lifestyles or move up the social ladder. The gradual removal of historical bans imposed by the Communist Party on unauthorised movement between cities (or from the countryside to the city) as well as owning property and travelling abroad make the ease of movement — mobility — novel and exciting. Over the past year and a half, the anticorruption campaign has identified ‘excessive mobility’, as defined by all forms of ‘extravagance’ 铺张 or 奢靡 on the part of party and government officials, as being a danger to the wellbeing of the party-state. New prohibitions and regulations have put pressure on party and government officials to change their habits, alter their lifestyles and abandon any plans to establish a residential base overseas — in effect, to retreat from the Zeitgeist of mobility. This chapter considers the implications for the Shared Destiny of the Chinese in the context of movement between China and the world, particularly in relation to the Party’s seemingly stringent anti-waste regulations.

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