<p>Jun Zhang's <i>Driving Toward Modernity: Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in Contemporary China</i> presents an exceptional and fascinating ethnographic study that examines the relationship between the rise of the 'automotive regime' and the (re-)emergence of the middle class.</p>

China Information

<p>This rich ethnography will be a benchmark for any forthcoming scholarly work on car consumption in China. Zhang's ethnographic account of the car-owning mobility of middle-class consumers in southern China represents a major contribution to an important topic in the understanding of contemporary Chinese society.</p>

Pacific Affairs

<p>Jun Zhang's analytical goal has been admirably achieved, and the book will be a welcome addition to a growing field of scholarship on automobility and its impacts and revelations across different locales.</p>

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute