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01-12-2013 | Society’s Books of Note
Society’s Books of Note
November/December 2013
Published in: Society | Issue 6/2013
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John Osburg, Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality among China’s New Rich. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. $22.95. 264pp.…Osburg, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Rochester, examines the rise of elite networks in China and documents the changing values, lifestyles, and consumption habits of China’s new rich and new middle classes. He also describes the changing gender relations in Post-Mao China and the ways in which money and material wealth intersect with ideologies of love and feelings in people’s social, marital, and romantic relationships.