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China Constructing Capitalism: Economic Life and Urban Change book cover

1st Edition

China Constructing Capitalism Economic Life and Urban Change

By Michael Keith, Scott Lash, Jakob Arnoldi, Tyler Rooker Copyright 2014
344 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

340 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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China has been growing at over ten per cent annually since 1978, but this has only come to very widespread notice in the past decade. This received wisdom about China has been largely of two types, both of which – more or less – understand China in the context of neoliberalism. The more business- or business studies-oriented literature seems to argue that if China does not adapt the rule of clear... Read more

Introduction  1. Chinese Thought, Cultural Theory  2. Connections, Networks, Culture: The Institutions of Chinese Capitalism  3. Relational Property and Urban Temporality: China’s Urbanisms in the City of Experts  4. Local State Capitalism? From Urban Hierarchy to City Markets  5. Chinese Firms and Political Ties  6. Property Development: Markets and Districts  7. Trading Room Ethnography: Stuck in China  8. Knowing but Not Doing: The Financial Sector in China and Institutional Reform  9. Risk Cultures: Urban Biographies  10. Shenzhen Dwelling: Arrival and Migrant Urbanisms.  Bibliography

Biography

Michael Keith is Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society and holds a personal chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oxford.

Scott Lash is Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Jakob Arnoldi is Professor in the Department of Business Administration at Aarhus University.

Tyler Rooker is Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham.

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