{"product_id":"anxious-homes-mengqi-wang-9781501786808","title":"Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China's Housing Market","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mengqi Wang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501786806\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501786808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Mengqi Wang","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48152906301695,"sku":"9781501786808","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_49954e05-77ba-48d1-9217-475381761f8c.jpg?v=1770779994","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anxious-homes-mengqi-wang-9781501786808","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}