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1. Reclaiming Chinese Society

   The New Social Activism

   Edited by You-tien Hsing, Ching Kwan Lee

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   Reclaiming Chinese Society analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasizes economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, this volume argues for the centrality of...

   Published September 28th 2009 by Routledge
2. Working in China

   Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation

   Edited by Ching Kwan Lee

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global economy. Its immense labour force accounts for some twenty-nine per cent of the world's total labour pool but all too little is known about Chinese labour...

   Published August 29th 2006 by Routledge