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Cosmologies of credit : transnational mobility and the politics of destination in China / Julie Y. Chu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chu, Julie Y., 1974-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fujian Sheng (China)--Emigration and immigration.
- Fujian Sheng (China).
- Fujian Sheng (China)--Rural conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (359 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An ethnographic account of the logics and regimes of value propelling desires for transnational mobility-largely via human smuggling networks-throughout Fuzhou, China.
- Contents:
- To be emplaced : Fuzhounese migration and the geography of desire
- Stepping out : contesting the moral career from peasant to overseas Chinese
- Snakeheads and paper trails : the making of exits
- Bad subjects : human smuggling, legality, and the problem of entrance
- For use in heaven or hell : the circulation of the U.S. dollar among gods, ghosts, and ancestors
- Partings and returns : gender, kinship, and the mediation of renqing.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613251893
- 9780822393160
- 0822393166
- 9781283251891
- 1283251892
- OCLC:
- 709617162
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