Border Crossing in Greater China: Production, Community and Identity

ISBN-13: 9780415744850 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 264 str.

Jenn-Hwan Wang

Opis

This book examines the transformation of socioeconomic relations between Taiwan and China as the Taiwanese economy has become more deeply integrated into the Greater China region. Specifically, it focuses on how the rise of China in recent decades has altered the socioeconomic power relations across the region, and the impact of the huge flow of people from Taiwan and Hong Kong to China. The book is divided into three sections: 'production', which examines how investments from Taiwan to China have transformed production networks; 'community and daily life', which explores the impact of cross boundary mobility and the integration of Taiwanese migrants into Chinese communities; and finally, 'identity formation', which engages with what is one of the most important issues in contemporary Taiwanese society. By contributing to our knowledge of the micro-processes of socio-economic transformations across the region, this book helps us to understand more fully the future formation and transformation of Greater China. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of Taiwan studies, Chinese society and Chinese economics.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Crossing borders in greater China: A multidimensional perspective  Part Ⅰ: Production 2. Managing cross-border innovation networks: Taiwan’s IC design industry 3. Embedded trust and beyond: The organizational network transformation of Taishang’s shoe industry in China 4. Taiwanese architects and post-Mao China’s production of the built environment 5. Establishing Guanxi in Chinese market: Comparative analysis of Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese expatriates in mainland China 6. Local response of "growth" and "dependency": A case study of Taiwan businessmen in Suzhou, China  Part Ⅱ: Community 7. Lifestyle migrants: Taiwanese women in China 8. Marginal mobilities: Taiwanese manufacturing companies’ migration to inner China 9. Cross-strait economic exchanges by night: Pleasure, work, and power in Chinese karaoke hostess bars 10. Class, gender and globalized intimacy: The second-wife phenomenon in Great China  Part Ⅲ: Identity 11. How identities matter? Taiwanese cultural workers in China 12. Class or identity matters? The social assimilation of Taiwanese Sojourners in China 13. Ethnic identity of Hong Kong people: An academic question turned political 14. Hong Kong and diasporic China

O autorze

Jenn-hwan Wang is Chair Professor of the Graduate Institute of Development Studies at National Chengchi University, Taiwan.