ISBN:
0415379385
,
9780415369206
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 270 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge studies on China in transition
Parallel Title:
Print version Translocal China
DDC:
304.80951
Keywords:
Social change
;
Migration, Internal Social aspects
;
China Social conditions 2000-
Abstract:
Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection of essays explores China's reform era development within the concept of translocality. These essays focus simultaneously on mobilities and localities, drawing our attention to the multiplying forms of mobility in China, whilst retaining the importance of localities in people's lives
Description / Table of 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*
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
