Neo-socialist property rights : the predicament of housing ownership in China /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ho, Cheuk-Yuet, author.
Imprint:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Home ownership -- China. Home ownership -- Political aspects -- China. Housing policy -- China. Right of property -- China. Home ownership. Home ownership -- Political aspects. Housing policy. Right of property. China. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11405225

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ISBN:	9781498506847 1498506844 9781498506830 1498506836
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Neo-Socialist Property Rights studies urban dwellers' desire for housing ownership and how their acquiring and defending of property rights reshape the state-property-family relationality in neo-socialist China. This book links property rights practice to the broader human rights discourse as both a working hypothesis and a historical question.
Other form:	Print version: Ho, Cheuk-Yuet. Neo-socialist property rights 9781498506830

Table of Contents:

Introduction : from vice to the virtue of owning private property
Exit, or evict : re-grounding rights in need
Bargaining demolition : when needs and desires meet
Investing citizens : embracing desires and risks
Affective ownership : situating rights in desires
The property question : meanings and values
The real life of rights : a detour from needs and desires to interests
Final thoughts : the ambivalence of rights afterword : locating and mislocating rights in neo-socialist China.

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