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Cheris Shun-ching Chan is associate professor of sociology at the University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University. Her writings have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, International Sociology, and The China Quarterly, and have won several awards from the American Sociological Association.

出版者:Oxford University Press

作者:Cheris Shun-ching Chan

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页数:304

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出版时间:2012-3-22

价格:USD 65.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780195394078

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社会学
海外中国研究
经济社会学
保险业
文化社会学
陈纯菁
中国研究
经济

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How do companies sell life insurance in a country where death is a taboo subject? In Marketing Death, Cheris S.C. Chan explores both how and why the life insurance industry has managed to emerge in China, a country with an entrenched cultural stigma against the very topic of death. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and engaging with current scholarship, Chan explores the processes and micro-politics by which foreign and domestic companies have negotiated local cultural resistance and created a market in spite of it. In doing so, she asks larger questions about how different societies view and value life and death, what is meant by "cultural values," how they interact with a set of fragmented cultural tools to compellingly organize individuals' practical daily lives, and how the market is influenced by them. Chan tells a story not just of the emergence of the Chinese life insurance industry, but of the dynamic relationships between culture and markets, local norms and foreign influences in one of the world's fastest-growing economies.

Marketing Death is the first book to offer a sociological analysis of the emergence of a life insurance market outside of a European or American context. Through in-depth study of the expansion of an industry whose unique "product" - gambling on one's own sudden death - has always met with a measure of resistance, but never more so than in China, Chan provides a new lens for understanding how modern capitalist enterprises are diffused to regions with disparate cultural traditions.