1st Edition
Translocal China Linkages, Identities and the Re-imagining of Space
288 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
288 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
288 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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
