Print Email Facebook Twitter Book review Title Book review: In search of paradise: middle-class living in a Chinese metropolis Author Chen, Y. (TU Delft Urban Development Management) Date 2014-05-12 Abstract China’s eye-catching urbanization process and an emerging real estate market not only transformed the landscape of Chinese cities, but greatly altered the way urban Chinese live and think about their private space, public space and their traditional communities. In Search of Paradise: Middle-class living in a Chinese metropolis by Li Zhang explored the emergence of a rising middle class and their personal experience following housing privatization and profound economic, spatial, cultural and social changes. From an ethnographic approach, the author explored the interplay between house ownership and privatization of space, security, life style, consumption practices, status and the property right protection. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8a14dfc0-3dc9-45a6-9663-34b94223626b DOI DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.914672 Access restriction Campus only ISSN 1949-1247 Source International Journal of Housing Policy, 14 (2), 204-206 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type review Rights © 2014 Y. Chen Files PDF Chen_2014_Book_review_int ... Policy.pdf 133.84 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8a14dfc0-3dc9-45a6-9663-34b94223626b/datastream/OBJ/view