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Charlotte L. Beahan

Bio: Charlotte L. Beahan is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & Modernity. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 9 publications receiving 188 citations.

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Abstract: (1998). Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 89-90.

54 citations


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TL;DR: A national campaign for detection and treatment of syphilis, and a credible prevention strategy, are urgently needed, and the results suggest that a range of unique biological and social forces are driving the spread ofSyphilis in China.

275 citations

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TL;DR: The authors studied the diversity among Chinese consumers across seven regional markets and found that consumers from various regions are significantly different from one another in terms of purchasing power, attitudes, lifestyles, media use, and consumption patterns.
Abstract: As one of the big emerging markets, China’s enormous population and rapid increase in consumer spending have attracted many multinational corporations (MNCs). Meanwhile, the misconception of China as a homogeneous market often leads to difficulties in assessing market demand and enacting effective strategies. Examines the diversity among Chinese consumers across seven regional markets. Data from a national survey suggest that consumers from various regions are significantly different from one another in terms of purchasing power, attitudes, lifestyles, media use, and consumption patterns. MNCs need to take a cautionary approach when expanding into the inland regions, and must adapt to the local market conditions and devise sustainable strategies.

267 citations

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24 Mar 2005-AIDS
TL;DR: The combined effect of sexual practices, sex work, and a true male surplus on HIV transmission is described, which believes that surplus men and sex workers will have a profound effect on the future of HIV spread in China and on the success or failure of future interventions.
Abstract: While 70% of HIV positive individuals live in sub-Saharan Africa it is widely believed that the future of the epidemic depends on the magnitude of HIV spread in India and China the world’s most populous countries. China’s 1.3 billion people are in the midst of significant social transformation which will impact future sexual disease transmission. Soon approximately 8.5 million ‘surplus men’ unmarried and disproportionately poor and migrant will come of age in China’s cities and rural areas. Meanwhile many millions of Chinese sex workers appear to represent a broad range of prices places and related HIV risk behaviors. Using demographic and behavioral data this paper describes the combined effect of sexual practices sex work and a true male surplus on HIV transmission. Alongside a rapid increase in sexually transmitted disease incidence across developed parts of urban China surplus men could become a significant new HIV risk group. The anticipated high sexual risk among many surplus men and injecting drug use use among a subgroup of surplus men may create bridging populations from high to low risk individuals. Prevention strategies that emphasize traditional measures – condom promotion sex education medical training – must be reinforced by strategies which acknowledge surplus men and sex workers. Reform within female sex worker mandatory re-education centers and site specific interventions at construction sites military areas or unemployment centers may hold promise in curbing HIV/sexually transmitted infections. From a sociological perspective we believe that surplus men and sex workers will have a profound effect on the future of HIV spread in China and on the success or failure of future interventions. (authors)

188 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, Tad Ballew, Susan Brownell, Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark, Robert Efird, Suzanne Z. Gottschang, Ellen Hertz, Lisa Hoffman, Sandra Hyde, Lyn Jeffery, Lida Junghans, Louisa Schein, Li Zhang, and Li Zhang focus on the direct sales industry, the Chinese rock music market, the discursive production of femininity and motherhood in urban hospitals, and transformations in access to healthcare.
Abstract: China Urban is an ethnographic account of China’s cities and the place that urban space holds in China’s imagination. In addition to investigating this nation’s rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the “urban” and the utility of urban-focused anthropological critiques during a period of unprecedented change on local, regional, national, and global levels. Through close attention to everyday lives and narratives and with a particular focus on gender, market, and spatial practices, this collection stresses that, in the case of China, rural life and the impact of socialism must be considered in order to fully comprehend the urban. Individual essays note the impact of legal barriers to geographic mobility in China, the proliferation of different urban centers, the different distribution of resources among various regions, and the pervasive appeal of the urban, both in terms of living in cities and in acquiring products and conventions signaling urbanity. Others focus on the direct sales industry, the Chinese rock music market, the discursive production of femininity and motherhood in urban hospitals, and the transformations in access to healthcare. China Urban will interest anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and those studying urban planning, China, East Asia, and globalization. Contributors. Tad Ballew, Susan Brownell, Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark, Robert Efird, Suzanne Z. Gottschang, Ellen Hertz, Lisa Hoffman, Sandra Hyde, Lyn Jeffery, Lida Junghans, Louisa Schein, Li Zhang

127 citations

Book
15 Feb 2012
TL;DR: Critical Han Studies as mentioned in this paper is a collection of trenchant, penetrating essays interrogating what it means to be "Han" in China, both historically and today, both by examining the social construction of hierarchy and in-group favoritism.
Abstract: Addressing the problem of the ‘Han’ ethnos from a variety of relevant perspectives—historical, geographical, racial, political, literary, anthropological, and linguistic—Critical Han Studies offers a responsible, informative deconstruction of this monumental yet murky category. It is certain to have an enormous impact on the entire field of China studies.” Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania “This deeply historical, multidisciplinary volume consistently and fruitfully employs insights from critical race and whiteness studies in a new arena. In doing so it illuminates brightly how and when ideas about race and ethnicity change in the service of shifting configurations of power.” David Roediger, author of How Race Survived U.S. History “A great book. By examining the social construction of hierarchy in China,Critical Han Studiessheds light on broad issues of cultural dominance and in-group favoritism.” Richard Delgado, author of Critical Race Theory: An Introduction “A powerful, probing account of the idea of the ‘Han Chinese’—that deceptive category which, like ‘American,’ is so often presented as a natural default, even though it really is of recent vintage. . . . A feast for both Sinologists and comparativists everywhere.” Magnus Fiskesjo, Cornell University “This collection of trenchant, penetrating essays interrogates what it means to be ‘Han’ in China, both historically and today. It will make a valuable and enduring contribution to our understanding of the uniqueness and complexity of Chinese history and culture. Dru Gladney, Pomona College Constituting over ninety percent of China's population, Han is not only the largest ethnonational group in that country but also one of the largest categories of human identity in world history. In this pathbreaking volume, a multidisciplinary group of scholars examine this ambiguous identity, one that shares features with, but cannot be subsumed under, existing notions of ethnicity, culture, race, nationality, and civilization. Thomas S. Mullaney is a professor of history at Stanford University. James Leibold is senior lecturer and Asian studies program convenor at La Trobe University. Stephane Gros is a research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Eric Vanden Bussche is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University. Contributors: Uradyn E. Bulag, Kevin Carrico, Zhihong Chen, Tamara Chin, Mark Elliott, C. Patterson Giersch, James Leibold, Thomas S. Mullaney, Nicholas Tapp, Emma J. Teng, Chris Vasantkumar, and Xu Jieshun Series: New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society, vol. 4

114 citations