Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China
This book examines how Chinese citizens negotiate their everyday experiences with urban spaces, improved city infrastructure, and an increasingly tight surveillance regime through volunteering. It asks how citizens connect to city spaces where facilities for transit, culture, and leisure have been s...
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| description | This book examines how Chinese citizens negotiate their everyday experiences with urban spaces, improved city infrastructure, and an increasingly tight surveillance regime through volunteering. It asks how citizens connect to city spaces where facilities for transit, culture, and leisure have been substantially upgraded. Drawing on extensive research, the author investigates how citizens conduct volunteer activities that not only promote party-state campaigns and engage with new urban spaces and services, but also experiment with political, social, and cultural rights, including advocating for the rights of people with disabilities and promoting unofficial interpretations of national history. The book argues that volunteering has become an urban practice through which citizens navigate existing hierarchies of urban and rural status, gender, age, and ability, while contesting top-down, mega-event–driven urbanization. It situates Chinese everyday urbanism within the context of China’s hosting of multiple international events, its expanding public and digital infrastructures, heightened party-state control, and burgeoning digital activism. The book contributes to the infrastructural turn in urban anthropology and the field of China studies, offering a new understanding of urban rights and public access in contemporary China. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1758082026-04-20T08:40:56Z Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China Wu, Ka-ming Everyday Urbanism Urban Infrastructure Volunteering Mega-events Civic Imaginations Contemporary China thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSN Social work::JKSN1 Charities, voluntary services and philanthropy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies This book examines how Chinese citizens negotiate their everyday experiences with urban spaces, improved city infrastructure, and an increasingly tight surveillance regime through volunteering. It asks how citizens connect to city spaces where facilities for transit, culture, and leisure have been substantially upgraded. Drawing on extensive research, the author investigates how citizens conduct volunteer activities that not only promote party-state campaigns and engage with new urban spaces and services, but also experiment with political, social, and cultural rights, including advocating for the rights of people with disabilities and promoting unofficial interpretations of national history. The book argues that volunteering has become an urban practice through which citizens navigate existing hierarchies of urban and rural status, gender, age, and ability, while contesting top-down, mega-event–driven urbanization. It situates Chinese everyday urbanism within the context of China’s hosting of multiple international events, its expanding public and digital infrastructures, heightened party-state control, and burgeoning digital activism. The book contributes to the infrastructural turn in urban anthropology and the field of China studies, offering a new understanding of urban rights and public access in contemporary China. 2026-04-20T08:40:56Z 2026-04-20T08:40:56Z 2026-04-16T12:09:14Z 2026 book ONIX_20260415T184306_9789400605756_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112428 9789400605756 9789087285098 9789400605749 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/175808 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/112428/1/9789400605749.pdf Leiden University Press Leiden University Press 10.24415/9789087285098 10.24415/9789087285098 1dcb980a-389c-4b15-9b4f-13019f12dd19 9789400605756 9789087285098 9789400605749 Leiden University Press 170 Leiden open access |
| spellingShingle | Everyday Urbanism Urban Infrastructure Volunteering Mega-events Civic Imaginations Contemporary China thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSN Social work::JKSN1 Charities, voluntary services and philanthropy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Wu, Ka-ming Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China |
| title | Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China |
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| title_short | Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China |
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| topic | Everyday Urbanism Urban Infrastructure Volunteering Mega-events Civic Imaginations Contemporary China thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSN Social work::JKSN1 Charities, voluntary services and philanthropy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies |
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