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Chinese Borderlands in Transition

Mobility, Penetration, and Transformation

Edited by Junmin Liu, Fangyi Cheng ...

Series series Asian Borderlands
Chinese Borderlands in Transition: Mobility, Penetration, and Transformation offers a compelling exploration of borderlands as dynamic cultural spaces.Through a collection of thought-provoking essays, this edited volume examines the representations, negotiations, practices, and experiences that define border regions across time and place. It illuminates the intricate intersections of identity, ... Read more

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Chinese Borderlands in Transition: Mobility, Penetration, and Transformation offers a compelling exploration of borderlands as dynamic cultural spaces.Through a collection of thought-provoking essays, this edited volume examines the representations, negotiations, practices, and experiences that define border regions across time and place. It illuminates the intricate intersections of identity,
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Heritage, Homemaking, and Identity Formation in Migrant Workers

An Ethnographic Study of Yi Migrants in Shenzhen

by Junmin Liu ...

Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
Liu explores the experiences of Yi migrant workers in Shenzhen, China, investigating how their cultural heritage influences their search for identity and a sense of belonging. This book uncovers the intricate relationship between heritage and homemaking, examining how Yi migrants engage in their cultural practices within various settings such as families, workplaces, restaurants, tourist sites, ... Read more

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Liu explores the experiences of Yi migrant workers in Shenzhen, China, investigating how their cultural heritage influences their search for identity and a sense of belonging. This book uncovers the intricate relationship between heritage and homemaking, examining how Yi migrants engage in their cultural practices within various settings such as families, workplaces, restaurants, tourist sites,
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Anxious Wealth

Money and Morality Among China's New Rich

by John Osburg ...

Who exactly are China's new rich? This pioneering investigation introduces readers to the private lives—and the nightlives—of the powerful entrepreneurs and managers redefining success and status in the city of Chengdu. Over the course of more than three years, anthropologist John Osburg accompanied, and in some instances assisted, wealthy Chinese businessmen as they courted clients, partners, and ... Read more

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Who exactly are China's new rich? This pioneering investigation introduces readers to the private lives—and the nightlives—of the powerful entrepreneurs and managers redefining success and status in the city of Chengdu. Over the course of more than three years, anthropologist John Osburg accompanied, and in some instances assisted, wealthy Chinese businessmen as they courted clients, partners, and
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Shanghai Lalas

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This is the first ethnographic study of lala (lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) communities and politics in China, focusing on the city of Shanghai. Based on several years of in-depth interviews, the volume concentrates on lalas’ everyday struggle to reconcile same-sex desire with a dominant rhetoric of family harmony and compulsory marriage, all within a culture denying women’s active and ... Read more

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This is the first ethnographic study of lala (lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) communities and politics in China, focusing on the city of Shanghai. Based on several years of in-depth interviews, the volume concentrates on lalas’ everyday struggle to reconcile same-sex desire with a dominant rhetoric of family harmony and compulsory marriage, all within a culture denying women’s active and
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The New Rich in China

Future rulers, present lives

Edited by David Goodman ...

Three decades of reform since 1978 in the People’s Republic of China have resulted in the emergence of new social groups which have included new occupations and professions generated as the economy has opened up and developed and, most spectacularly given the legacy of state socialism, the identification of those who are regarded as wealthy. However, although China’s new rich are certainly a ... Read more

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Three decades of reform since 1978 in the People’s Republic of China have resulted in the emergence of new social groups which have included new occupations and professions generated as the economy has opened up and developed and, most spectacularly given the legacy of state socialism, the identification of those who are regarded as wealthy. However, although China’s new rich are certainly a
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Diasporic Hallyu

The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture

by Kyong Yoon ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This open access book examines the lived experiences of diasporic Korean youth in light of the transnational flows of South Korean popular culture, known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Korean Canadian youth and their engagement with the Korean Wave, the book proposes a critical understanding of the interactions between diasporic youth audiences and popular ... Read more

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This open access book examines the lived experiences of diasporic Korean youth in light of the transnational flows of South Korean popular culture, known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Korean Canadian youth and their engagement with the Korean Wave, the book proposes a critical understanding of the interactions between diasporic youth audiences and popular
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Making Our Own Destiny

Single Women, Opportunity, and Family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo

by Lynne Y. Nakano ...

In East Asia’s largest cities, hundreds of thousands of women remain single into middle age and beyond, giving rise to a demographic transformation with profound implications for their societies. Labeled in the media as “loser dogs” and “parasites” in Japan and “leftover women” in mainland China and Hong Kong, single women in East Asia are criticized for being choosy, selfish, and overly ... Read more

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In East Asia’s largest cities, hundreds of thousands of women remain single into middle age and beyond, giving rise to a demographic transformation with profound implications for their societies. Labeled in the media as “loser dogs” and “parasites” in Japan and “leftover women” in mainland China and Hong Kong, single women in East Asia are criticized for being choosy, selfish, and overly
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Chinese Women - Living and Working

by Anne McLaren ...

Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Experts in gender, politics, media studies, and anthropology discuss the impact of economic reform and globalization on Chinese women in family businesses, management, the professions, the prostitution industry and domestic service. ... Read more

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This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Experts in gender, politics, media studies, and anthropology discuss the impact of economic reform and globalization on Chinese women in family businesses, management, the professions, the prostitution industry and domestic service.
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Voices of New China

Chinese Young Adults Talk About Their Lives

by C.J. Shane ...

Planning on a trip to China or to do business with the Chinese? Learn about China from the Chinese perspective. Chinese young adults tell us in their own words about their lives, their values, their goals for the future, their joys, their challenges, and what they think of us. Commentary by the author on Confucian values, recent Chinese history, and the typical life stages of the Chinese give ... Read more

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Planning on a trip to China or to do business with the Chinese? Learn about China from the Chinese perspective. Chinese young adults tell us in their own words about their lives, their values, their goals for the future, their joys, their challenges, and what they think of us. Commentary by the author on Confucian values, recent Chinese history, and the typical life stages of the Chinese give
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Self as Method

Thinking Through China and the World

by Biao Xiang, Qi Wu ...

Translated by David Ownby ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversations between Xiang Biao ... Read more

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Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversations between Xiang Biao
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Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society

Edited by Youna Kim ...

The Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society is an accessible and interdisciplinary resource that explores the formation and transformation of Korean culture and society.Each chapter provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking overview on key topics, including: compressed modernity, religion, educational migration, social class and inequality, popular culture, digitalisation, diasporic ... Read more

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The Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society is an accessible and interdisciplinary resource that explores the formation and transformation of Korean culture and society.Each chapter provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking overview on key topics, including: compressed modernity, religion, educational migration, social class and inequality, popular culture, digitalisation, diasporic
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Rural Origins, City Lives

Class and Place in Contemporary China

by Roberta Zavoretti ...

A new understanding of rural-urban migration and inequality in contemporary ChinaMany of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences are far more nuanced than popular narratives might suggest. Rural Origins, City Lives probes long-held assumptions about migrant ... Read more

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A new understanding of rural-urban migration and inequality in contemporary ChinaMany of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences are far more nuanced than popular narratives might suggest. Rural Origins, City Lives probes long-held assumptions about migrant
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