China Constructing Capitalism: Economic Life and Urban Change

ISBN-13: 9780415497053 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 344 str.

Scott Lash; Michael Keith; Jakob Arnoldi

Opis

This text analyzes China as a 'risk culture', embracing the opportunity & adventure of Beijing's Olympic architecture, Shenzhen investment bank traders, Shanghai property developers & art markets. It examines the risk-sharing of intergenerational family mortgages, wage-pooling microfinance & regimes of collective saving.

Spis treści

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