Neo-Socialist Property Rights

The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China

Cheuk-Yuet Ho

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Lexington Books
15 July 2015

Homelessness; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Land rights

Neo-Socialist Property Rights: The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China examines how urban dwellers’ practices of acquiring and defending property rights reshape state-property-family relationality in China. Ubiquitous housing ownership has emerged together with a pervasive yet particularized rights discourse and practice in the past two decades. Ho Cheuk-Yuet considers them to be a condensation and vindication of the principles of family values and emergent “neo-socialist” governance. However, there are manifested and latent contradictions between rights as interests and rights as a moral principle. This book concludes that private property rights are at once enabling and disabling when understood in the light of both the rigorous pursuit of well-being in a market economy and the contestation by those who resist forced eviction or the infringement of owners’ rights. In this book, Ho provides rarely available ethnographic record of the encounters between evictees and evictors engaged in housing demolition and approaches the topic of urban housing ownership from the investing perspective in contrast to most anthropologists’ consumption-focus analysis. Neo-Socialist Property Rights links property rights practice to the broader human rights discourse as both a working hypothesis and a historical question.

By: Cheuk-Yuet Ho
Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 490g
ISBN: 9781498506830
ISBN 10: 1498506836
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 15 July 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures Glossary of Chinese Terms Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction: From Vice to the Virtue of Owning Private Property Chapter 2 Exit, or Evict: Re-grounding Rights in Need Chapter 3 Bargaining Demolition: When Needs and Desires Meet Chapter 4 Investing Citizens: Embracing Desires and Risks Chapter 5 Affective Ownership: Situating Rights in Desires Chapter 6 The Property Question: Meanings and Values Chapter 7 The Real Life of Rights: A Detour from Needs and Desires to Interests Chapter 8 Final Thoughts: The Ambivalence of Rights Afterword Locating and Mislocating Rights in Neo-Socialist China Appendix Research Methods References Index

Ho Cheuk-Yuet is adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Reviews for Neo-Socialist Property Rights: The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China

Rich in empirical evidence and theoretical exploration, Neo-Socialist Property Rights tackles the tension created by an authoritarian government and a market economy. It sheds intriguing light on the property issue that is at the heart of China's growth and decay in the post-Mao era. -- Qin Shao, author of Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity This provocative study offers a deeply human portrait of urban citizens engaged in everyday struggles over the right to housing. With theoretical sophistication and rich ethnographic observation, Ho Cheuk-Yuet reveals the paradoxes of housing privatization, and in so doing, advances a new understanding of emergent notions of property rights and debates over home ownership in China's booming real estate market. -- Christina Schwenkel, University of California, Riverside