Overview
- Addresses the impact of Chinese families owning cars on social changes
- Presents multi-disciplinary research on the formation of China's automobile society, and its characteristics and the future development
- Discusses the social problems caused by China’s automobile society, and puts forward policy recommendations based on the authors’ extensive survey data
Part of the book series: Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path (RSCDCDP)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
China has experienced more than 30 years of rapid economic development, and people's living conditions have greatly improved. One of the symbols of this is family-car ownership, which has increased year by year. China is rapidly becoming an automobile society like North America. But China has huge population and limited urban space, and most of the cities are deteriorating environmentally. Added to this are the low degree energy self-sufficiency and people’s lack of awareness of traffic rules, all of which have brought various social problems, such as traffic congestion, lack of parking spaces, air pollution, energy shortage and frequent accidents. The volume presents a series of studies examining the characteristics and problems of China's automobile society development from the perspective of sustainable development.
The reports in the volume are both academic and highly readable, making it an interesting resource for researchers and general readers alike. It offers insights into the trends and problems of private cars in China, as well as observations on China’s social change through the unique medium of cars.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Professor, Head of Department of Social Psychology ,Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).
Xiaoshan Lin, graduated from Sun Yat-Sen University, is a professor of Sociology in the College of Law and Political Science, Zhejiang Normal University where he teaches Consumption of Sociology, Qualitative Research, Gender Studies and Demographic Sociology. His research now mostly focuses on consumption inequality and social stratification, especially the institutional transitions and consumer revolution in modern China. He is also the author of the book: The Social Construction of Car Dream: A Studies of Car Consumption in Urban China Families. Recently he was elected as vice-chairman of the professional committee of consumption sociology of Chinese Sociological Association.
Wanchun Deng, graduated with PH.D. of Sociology fromthe Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China in 2005. Now, he is a professor of School of Politics and Administration, at Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China. He focuses on the study of Time and Space Sociology, Traffic Sociology and automobile society. The major works published recently are Traffic Sociology（co-author, China Social Sciences Press, 2012）, Time and Space Sociology（co-author, Beijing Normal University Press, 2012）.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Development of a Society on Wheels
Book Subtitle: Understanding the Rise of Automobile-dependency in China
Editors: Junxiu Wang
Series Title: Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2270-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. and Social Sciences Academic Press 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-2269-3Published: 14 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-2270-9Published: 01 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2363-6866
Series E-ISSN: 2363-6874
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 307
Number of Illustrations: 124 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social/Human Development Studies, Urban Studies/Sociology, Economy-wide Country Studies, Research Methodology