{"product_id":"9781501786815-anxious-homes","title":"Anxious Homes","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInflexible Demand and China's Housing Market\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnxious Homes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a study of the power that shapes the forms of the homes Chinese citizens strive for and the possible paths they may take to realize their home ownership dreams.\u003c\/b\u003e Mengqi Wang discusses how the Chinese real estate industry functions in the everyday, welding aspirational middle-class families, especially migrant families, to the property-owning class and the urban growth machine. Urban housing was a socialist benefit in China until the market reforms and privatization in the 1990s. Today, most Chinese citizens consider homeownership a necessity rather than an economic privilege. Wang analyzes the making of homeownership ideologies through \"inflexible demand\" (\u003ci\u003egangxu\u003c\/i\u003e) – a concept that real estate brokers, developers, homebuyers, and the government in China use to craft homeownership as indispensable for fulfilling dreams of urban citizenship. The ethnography shows that \u003ci\u003egangxu\u003c\/i\u003e helps to articulate diverse attempts to accumulate value through housing at China's urbanizing city periphery, while giving shape to a housing-based, postsocialist right to the city. \u003ci\u003eAnxious Homes\u003c\/i\u003e argues that homeownership does not necessarily engender independence but suggests further inclusion of citizens within the dominant regime of accumulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57891678159222,"sku":"9781501786815","price":22.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41371972_3f23221c-82f4-45c9-8752-7dd6dc7c4fca.jpg?v=1779339734","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781501786815-anxious-homes","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}