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  • Passport Entanglements

    Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations

    by Nicole Constable ...
    Passport Entanglements traces the many tangled threads—political, historical, economic, global, and local—that are tied to the existence of Indonesian aspal or “real but fake” passports that are carried by as many as a third of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The book explains how and why the HK Indonesian Consulate’s attempts to regularize or “clean up” (pemutihan) these ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Cross-Border Marriages

    Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia

    Edited by Nicole Constable ...
    Illuminating how international marriages are negotiated, arranged, and experienced, Cross-Border Marriages is the first book to chart marital migrations involving women and men of diverse national, ethnic, and class backgrounds. The migrations studied here cross geographical borders of provinces, rural-urban borders within nation-states, and international boundaries, including those of China, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Cross-Border Marriages

    Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia

    Edited by Nicole Constable ...
    Illuminating how international marriages are negotiated, arranged, and experienced, Cross-Border Marriages is the first book to chart marital migrations involving women and men of diverse national, ethnic, and class backgrounds. The migrations studied here cross geographical borders of provinces, rural-urban borders within nation-states, and international boundaries, including those of China, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Migrant Workers in Asia

    Distant Divides, Intimate Connections

    by Nicole Constable ...
    This book provides rich and provocative comparative studies of South and Southeast Asian domestic workers who migrate to other parts of Asia. These studies range from Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore, to Yemen, Israel, Jordan, and the UAE. Conceptually and methodologically, this book challenges us to move beyond established regional divides and proposes new ways of mapping inter-Asian connections. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Born Out of Place

    Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor

    by Nicole Constable ...
    Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these migrant mothers, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Maid to Order in Hong Kong

    Stories of Migrant Workers, Second Edition

    by Nicole Constable ...
    Middle-class Chinese women in the global city of Hong Kong have entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers over the past three decades, and the demand for foreign domestic workers has soared. A decade ago some foretold the decline in foreign workers and the influx of mainland workers. But today over 120,000 women from the Philippines, over 90,000 from Indonesia, and thousands more from other ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Guest People

    Hakka Identity in China and Abroad

    Edited by Nicole Constable ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805450The essays in this volume analyze and compare what it means to be Hakka in a variety of sociocultural, political, geographical, and historical contexts including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Taiwan, and contemporary China. ... Read more

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    chapter 1 provides an orientation that places china in a global comparative context, with special attention given to similarities/differences between china and the united states. chapter 2 explores china's efforts to launch a "new" china on three different occasions--1911, 1949, and 1978. chapter 3 examines contemporary life in china, with a particular look at china's "floating" population, also ... Read more

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  • Multicultural Challenges and Redefining Identity in East Asia

    by Nam-Kook Kim ...
    Globalization and increased migration have brought both new opportunities and new tensions to traditional East Asian societies. Multicultural Challenges and Redefining Identity in East Asia draws together a wide range of distinguished local scholars to discuss multiculturalism and the changing nature of social identity in East Asia. Regional specialists review specific events and situations in ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Miracle

    The Epic Story of Asia's Quest for Wealth

    by Michael Schuman ...
    "If you are interested in how Asia became an economic tiger, read The Miracle."— New York TimesAn international bestseller, The Miracle by business journalist Michael Schuman offers a fascinating exploration of the most meaningful and far-reaching global event since World War II: the economic ascent of the Asian continent. CNN's Wolf Blitzer calls The Miracle, "An amazing story and it's all true," ... Read more

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  • Overreach

    How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise

    by Susan L. Shirk ...
    Winner, The Lionel Gelber Prize Silver Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something changed. For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. They ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • 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

    $20.49 USD