Tim Oakes / Louisa Schein (eds.)

Translocal China

Linkages, Identities and the Re-imagining of Space
Herausgeber: Oakes, Tim; Schein, Louisa

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Produktbeschreibung

With contributions from well-known China specialists, this volume explores China's reform era development within the context of translocality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780415379380
• ISBN-10: 0415379385
• Artikelnr.: 21510884

Autorenporträt

Tim Oakes is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Louisa Schein is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University, USA

Inhaltsangabe

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. How Local are
Local Enterprises?: Privatization and Translocality of Small Firms in
Zhejiang and Jiangsu 6. Urban Transformation and Professionalization:
Translocality and Rationalities of Enterprise in Post-Mao China 7. Symbolic
City/Regions and Gendered Identity Formation in South China 8. "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. The Flows of Heroin, People, Capital, Imagination and
the Spread of HIV in Southwest China 11. Negotiating Scale: Miao Women at a
Distance 12. The Leaving of Anhui: The Southward Journey Towards the
Knowledge Class