Faubion, James D.2009-06-042009-06-042001Zhang, Qin. "Eat, drink, man, woman: Modernity and urban lifestyles in China." (2001) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/18056">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/18056</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/18056Based on my fieldwork and research in Beijing and other Chinese urban cities in the 1990s, this dissertation focuses on urban Chinese lifestyles caught up in historical and momentous dynamics of continuity and transition. It is to study how lifestyles are embodied by urban men and women in the 1990s and played out in the bars, coffee shops, teahouses and Karoke halls in Beijing, as well as Shanghai and Zhengzhou. In general, this dissertation tries to explore how lifestyles become both reflexive and performative bodies in a complex of historical, political, social, cultural phenomena in a flow of fluxes and trends, a flow of information, a flow of history, a flow of modernity and a flow of globalization.331 p.application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.Cultural anthropologyRecreationAnthropologyThesisTHESIS ANTH. 2001 ZHANG