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Translocal China : linkages, identities and the reimagining of space / edited by Tim Oakes and Louisa Schein.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies--China in transition.
- Routledge studies on China in transition.
- Routledge studies on China in transition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Migration, Internal--Social aspects--China.
- Migration, Internal.
- Social change--China.
- Social change.
- China--Social conditions--2000-.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection of essays explores China's reform era development within the concept of translocality. A key element of spatial change in today's China has been the unprecedented geographic mobility of millions of labour migrants, tourists, brides, entrepreneurs, and many others. But translocality doesn't just mean people. It is crucially constituted by the circulation of capital, ideas, images, goods, styles, services, and disease to name but a few. With contributions from well-respected China specialists, the essays focus simultaneously on mob
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Half-Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 Translocal China An introduction; 2 The original translocal society and its modern fate Historical and post-reform south China; 3 Shanxi as translocal imaginary Reforming the local; 4 Openness,change,and translocality New migrants'identification with Hainan; 5 Corporate locality and translocality of private enterprises in China; 6 Urban transformation and professionalization Translocality and rationalities of enterprise in post-Mao China*
- 7 Symbolic city/regions and gendered identity formation in south China8 "Net-moms"-a new place and a new identity Parenting discussion forums on the Internet in China; 9 The village as theme park Mimesis and authenticity in Chinese tourism; 10 Flows of heroin,people,capital, imagination,and thespread of HIV in southwest China; 11 Negotiating scale Miao women at a distance; 12 The leaving of Anhui The southward journey toward the knowledge class; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610480715
- 9781134224036
- 1134224036
- 9781134224043
- 1134224044
- 9781280480713
- 1280480718
- 9780203029398
- 0203029399
- OCLC:
- 275267844
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