TechnoViews #7 'Driving Toward Modernity in China' | Jun ZHANG (City University of Hong Kong)

Jun Zhang (City University of Hong Kong), Interviewed by Cornell University Press in March 2020.

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Jun Zhang is Assistant Professor of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong. This episode is about her new book Driving toward Modernity: Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in Contemporary China. In the interview, Jun talks about what it is like to be the first person in your family to ever own a car, the massive increase of cars, and car owners, within China over the past two decades, and how the Chinese, particularly the middle class, have thrived as well as struggled with this unprecedented influx of new automobiles into the country. For more details on the book, please visit the Cornell Press website: