{"product_id":"unhomely-life-isbn-9781394176298","title":"Unhomely Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow do Chinas mobile individuals create a sense of home in a rapidly changing world?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnhomely life, different from houselessness, refers to a fluctuating condition between losing home feelings and the search for home — a prevalent condition in post-Mao China. The faster that Chinese society modernizes, the less individuals feel at home, and the more they yearn for a sense of home. This is the central paradox that Xiaobo Su explores: how mobile individuals—lifestyle migrants and retreat tourists from China's big cities, displaced natives and rural migrants in peripheral China—handle the loss of home and try to experience a homely way of life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUnhomely Life,\u003c\/i\u003e Xiaobo Su examines the subjective experiences of mobile individuals to better understand why they experience the loss of home feelings and how they search for home. Integrating extensive empirical data and a robust theoretical framework, the author presents a journey-based critical analysis of “home” under constant making, un-making, and re-making in post-Mao China. Su argues that the making of home is not a solely economic or rational calculation for maximum return, but rather a synthesis of resistance and compromise under the disappointing conditions of modernity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering rich insights into the continuity and disruption of China's great transformation, \u003ci\u003eUnhomely Life:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDevelops an original theory of unhomely life that incorporates contemporary research and traditional Chinese ideas of home\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the process of homemaking and its implications for understanding the costs of high-speed economic growth in China\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnalyzes mobile individuals across different genders, ages, ethnicities, social classes, and economic backgrounds to address the balance between meaning and money in everyday life\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eContaining in-depth and sophisticated empirical data collected from 2002 to 2020, \u003ci\u003eUnhomely Life: Modernity, Mobilities, and the Making of Home in China\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, lecturers, and academic researchers in cultural studies, migration, tourism, China studies, cultural anthropology, sociology, and social and cultural geography. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Fieldwork xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Introduction: From Xiangtu China to Unhomely China 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModernity as a Deal 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwo Dimensions of Uneven Mobilities 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLijiang Old Town: The Case 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStructure of the Book 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. A Sense of Home in China: Then and Now 31\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHome: An Ensemble of Representations and Experiences 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Sense of Home in Traditional Chinese Culture 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHome as a Destination for Return 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHome as a Balanced Way of Living 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModernization and Loss of Home Feelings in Post- Mao China 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnhomely Life: An Analytic Framework 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Lifestyle Migration and the (Un)making of an Ideal Home 68\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepresenting Lijiang as an Ideal Home 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking Home in its Material and Lived Aspects 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnmaking Home: The Spatial Politics of Belonging and Alienation 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExternal Pressure for Home Unmaking 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInternal Struggle between Here and There 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDivergence between Busyness and Slowness 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Ambivalence of an Ideal Home 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. The Act of Retreat: Tourism, Loafing, and the Consumption of Home 96\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSolitude and a Natural Way of Living 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLoafing through Socialization 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegarding Lijiang Old Town as a Home 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeing Unhomely in a Mobile World 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Displacing Native Residents: Money, Meaning, and the Remaking of Home 120\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Sense of Home in the Town 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA True Love for Courtyard Houses 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Close- knit Community in the Town 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Familiar to Strange: In- situ Displacement 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAge Difference: Departure or Stay 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking and Remaking Home in Daily Life: Four Stories 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStory 1: Making a Home for Tourists 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStory 2: Promoting Naxi Culture for Profit 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStory 3: The Life Cycle of a New Lijiang Local 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStory 4: Being at Home Forever 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNote 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Hometown Babies: Immobility and Lijiang Locals' Struggles for Home 156\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpeed and Slowness: The Supply of Homely Service to the Old Town 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGuesthouse A'Jie and the Commodification of Domestic Work 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDelivery A'Ge and Time Discipline 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFreelance Workers for Tourists 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFree Time, Away from Lijiang Old Town 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePain and Joy: Embracing Hometown in Lijiang 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Shadow of Patriarchal Society 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Celebration of Hometown Babies 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStay and Departure: The Longing for Settlement 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Homemaking in a Relentless World 186\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politics of Homemaking in Lijiang 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRemembering Home in China: By Whom and for What? 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeing Unhomely in Modern Times 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 221\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXiaobo Su \u003c\/b\u003eis a Professor of Urban and Regional Development in the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon. He is the co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Heritage Tourism in China: A View from Lijiang \u003c\/i\u003eand serves on the editorial boards of \u003ci\u003eGeopolitics \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTourism Tribute\u003c\/i\u003e. His research investigates China’s transformation from a planned economy to a market economy, focused on urban and regional development, tourism, migration, urban entrepreneurialism, and border politics.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this exciting and innovative exploration of one tourist town in southwest China, Xiaobo Su traces the outlines of a new 'homelessness' among the temporary migrants and tourists who move from cities such as Shanghai and Beijing in search of a 'lost' or 'inner' China to call home. The meanings of home in contemporary China come into focus in a town in which escape from the homelessness of modern urbanity has become its leitmotif.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJohn Agnew (UCLA)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Su's steadfast and sustained study of a single site – in the best tradition of deep ethnography – has afforded him the opportunity to observe the impact of China's great transformation in intimate terms. Su is masterful in presenting the life stories of individuals, situating them at the local level and within epochal transformations in China. This book is very compellingly written and deserves to be read by all interested in the major shifts in Chinese society across disciplines.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eLily Kong (Singapore Management University)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA journey-based critical analysis of the process and implications of homemaking in post-Mao China\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnhomely Life \u003c\/i\u003eexamines why mobile individuals in China experience the loss of home feelings and how they search for home in a rapidly changing world. Offering new insights into the continuity and disruption of home in the context of China's great transformation, Xiaobo Su narrates the subjective experiences of lifestyle migrants, retreat tourists, displaced natives, and rural migrants attempting to bridge the gap between the home they leave behind and the ideal home they imagine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeveloping an original theory that integrates a robust theoretical framework, in-depth research data, and traditional Chinese ideas of home, the author explores how 'unhomely' life reflects and reinforces the unevenness of mobilities and modernity while considering the socio-cultural costs of China's high-speed economic growth. The making of home is not a solely economic calculation for maximum return, Su argues, but rather a search for balance between meaning and money in everyday life under the disappointing conditions of modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnhomely Life: Modernity, Mobilities, and the Making of Home in China\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, lecturers, and academic researchers in cultural studies, migration, tourism, China studies, cultural anthropology, sociology, social geography, and cultural geography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990435315941,"sku":"NP9781394176298","price":94.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781394176298.jpg?v=1761787817","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/unhomely-life-isbn-9781394176298","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}