Translocal China : Linkages, Identities and the Reimagining of Space

ISBN-13: 9780415369206 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 270 str.

Tim Oakes; Louisa Schein

Opis

Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection of essays explores Chinas reform era development within the concept of trans-locality. A key element of spatial change in today's China has been the unprecedented geographic mobility of millions of labor migrants, tourists, brides, entrepreneurs, and many others. But trans-locality doesn't just mean people. It is crucially constituted by the circulation of capital, ideas, images, goods, styles, services, disease to name but a few.
With contribution from well-respected China specialists, the essays focus simultaneously on mobilites and localities, drawing our attention to the multiplying forms of mobility in China whilst retaining the importance of localities in peoples lives. The book provides a clear path to understanding the importance of trans-locality as a concept along with concrete examples of its operation in China. Unique in approach, it is at once a study of the connections between location and culture, politics, economics, bodies, gender and technology.

Spis treści

1. Translocal China: an introduction – Tim Oakes and Louisa Schein 2. The original translocal society and its modern fate: historical and post-reform south China – David Faure and Helen Siu 3. Shanxi as translocal imaginary: reforming the local – David S G Goodman 4. Openness, change and translocality: new migrants’ identification with Hainan – Feng Chongyi and Zhan Changzhi 5. How local are local enterprises? Privatization and translocality of small firms in Zhejiang and Jiangsu – Hans Hendrischke 6. Urban transformation and professionalization: translocality and rationalities of enterprise in post-Mao China – Lisa Hoffman 7. Symbolic city/regions and gendered identity formation in south China – Carolyn Cartier 8. "Net-Moms": a new place and a new identity – parenting discussion forums on the internet in China – Wang Gan 9. The village as theme park: mimesis and authenticity in Chinese tourism – Tim Oakes 10. The flows of heroin, people, capital, imagination and the spread of HIV in southwest China – Weng Naiqun 11. Negotiating scale: Miao women at a distance – Louisa Schein 12. The leaving of Anhui: the southward journey towards the knowledge class – Wanning Sun