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  • Cultural Gene of the Institution

    by Jiaming Sun Ph.D. ...
    This book offers a close-up view of American university life based on the author's intimate, firsthand experience across various institutions. Through "American Campus Observation," the author investigates the characteristics of Western cultural attributes by utilizing sociological methods, including field observation and comparative analysis. The book elucidates the underlying reasons behind ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Global Connectivity and Local Transformation

    A Micro Approach to Studying the Effect of Globalization on Shanghai

    by Jiaming Sun ...
    Increasing overseas traveling, booming Internet and electronic communication, and expanding global social ties are primary features of intensifying global connectivity and integration. Global Connectivity and Local Transformation conceptualizes global connectivity as a powerful but varied mechanism that links local people to the global society. Professor Jiaming Sun explores the massive global ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • China's Generation Gap

    by Jiaming Sun, Dongmei Cheng ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Based on data collected for the Generation Gap Survey in Shanghai and updated to take into account contemporary trends, this book uses an empirical approach to study the generation gap in China. It covers various aspects of life from professional and family life to political participation and belief systems, analysing and comparing the values held by four different generations. Encompassing more ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Chinese Globalization

    A Profile of People-Based Global Connections in China

    by Jiaming Sun, Scott Lancaster ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This book examines the explicit effects of global connectivity on local culture and society in post-reform mainland China. It focuses on individual level globalization in China and how global socialization impacts local residents’ behaviors, lifestyle, value orientation and the consequence of local transformation. Asking questions such as:What types of individual global connections have emerged ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Consumer-Citizens of China

    The Role of Foreign Brands in the Imagined Future China

    by Kelly Tian, Lily Dong ...
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  • How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

    by Yuen Yuen Ang ...
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  • In Search of Paradise

    Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis

    by Li Zhang ...
    A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and ... Read more

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    by Hu Wenzhong, Cornelius N. Grove, Zhuang Enping ...
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  • The New Rich in China

    Future rulers, present lives

    Edited by David Goodman ...
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  • Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self

    by Fengshu Liu ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
    Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the Internet in China is so far a predominantly urban-youth phenomenon, with young people under thirty ... Read more

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  • Working in China

    Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation

    Edited by Ching Kwan Lee ...
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    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 beyond the image of workers toiling under appalling sweatshop conditions for extremely low wages.Working in ... Read more

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