Add to your library with this fantastic set of autographed books by renowned sociologist Deborah S. Davis. This set is a must-have for any scholar of contemporary China.

This package includes the following paperback books:

The Consumer Revolution in Urban China (University of California press)

Deborah S. Davis, editor (Please note: The set includes both the English and Chinese editions of this book.)

Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
by Deborah S. Davis (Editor), Richard Kraus (Editor), Barry Naughton (Editor), Elizabeth J. Perry (Editor)

Chinese Society on the Eve of Tiananmen, ed. with Ezra Vogel. Contemporary China Series/Harvard University Press.

Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (Studies on China, No 17)
by Deborah Davis (Editor), Stevan Harrell (Editor)

Long Lives: Chinese Elderly and the Communist Revolution. (Stanford University Press)
by Deborah Davis (Author)

About the author:

Deborah S. Davis is Professor of Sociology at Yale University specializing in the study of contemporary Chinese society. Using materials from extensive fieldwork in China, she currently has two separate research projects, one focused on the social and political consequences of privatizing urban housing and one on reform of rural education. Past publications have analyzed the politics of the Cultural Revolution, Chinese family life, social welfare, occupational mobility and the urban consumer revolution. Her books include: Long Lives: Chinese Elderly and the Chinese Revolution, Chinese Society on the Eve of Tiananmen, Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era, Urban Spaces in Contemporary China, and The Consumer Revolution in Urban China. She received an MA in East Asian Studies from Harvard and a PhD in sociology from Boston University. She has also taught at Chung Chi College (now part of CUHK) in Hong Kong and Tunghai University in Taiwan. She also serves on the Yale-China Association's Board of Trustees.

About the books:

The Consumer Revolution in Urban China

Deborah S. Davis, editor
Description from the publisher (University of California Press):

After decades of egalitarian, restricted consumption, residents of China's cities are surrounded by a level of material comfort and commercial hype unimaginable just ten years ago. In this first in-depth treatment of the consumer revolution in China, fourteen leading scholars of Chinese culture and society explore the interpersonal consequences of rapid commercialization.

In the early 1980s, Beijing's communist leadership advocated decollectivization, foreign trade, and private entrepreneurship to jump-start a stagnant economy, while explicitly rejecting any notion that economic reforms would promote political change. However, by the early 1990s the reforms in the marketplace not only produced double-digit growth but also enabled ordinary citizens to nurture dreams and social networks that challenged official discourse and conventions through millions of daily commercial transactions. Using participant observation, contributors to this book describe and analyze a wide range of these changing consumer practices: luxury housing, white wedding gowns, greeting cards, McDonald's, discos, premium cigarettes, bowling, and more.

Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
by Deborah S. Davis (Editor), Richard Kraus (Editor), Barry Naughton (Editor), Elizabeth J. Perry (Editor)

Description from amazon.com:

The post-Mao urban reforms of the past decade have physically and psychologically transformed China's cities. Urban Spaces in Contemporary China explores how the character of city life changed after political-economic restructuring intensified in 1984, and how this change affected the creation of new physical, economic and cultural space in urban China. Drawing on a wide range of backgrounds, including economics, art history, law, and sociology, the authors bring personal insights to dimensions of urban Chinese life that are often misunderstood: China's large "floating populations," avant-garde art, labor movements, and leisure.

Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (Studies on China, No 17)
by Deborah Davis (Editor), Stevan Harrell (Editor)

Description from amazon.com:

How have the momentous policy shifts that followed the death of Mao Zedong changed families in China? What are the effects of the decollectivization of agriculture, the encouragement of limited private enterprise, and the world's strictest birth-control policy? Eleven sociologists and anthropologists explore these and other questions in this path-breaking volume. The essays concern both urban and rural communities and range from intellectual to working-class families. They show that there is no single trend in Chinese family organization today, but rather a mosaic of forms and strategies that must be seen in the light of particular local conditions.