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“xiaoshuo hou”

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  • Young and Restless in China

    Informal Economy, Gender, and the Precariat

    by Xiaoshuo Hou ...
    At a time when precarious labor is on the rise on a global scale, Young and Restless in China explores both the institutional and the individual processes that lead to informal employment and the clustering of the 'great gods' (dashen) – migrant workers, mostly male and born in the 1990s, who are disappointed by exploitative factories and thus choose short-term employment and day labor – in urban ... Read more

    $90.19 USD

  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism

    Edited by John Stone, Rutledge M. Dennis, Polly Rizova, Xiaoshuo Hou ...
    A broad examination of the rise of nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and racism throughout the worldThe Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism provides expert insight into the complex, interconnected factors that are influencing patterns of human relations worldwide in a time of rising populist nationalism, intensified racial and religious tensions, and mounting hostilities ... Read more

    $161.00 USD

  • Social Economy in Asia

    Realities and Perspectives

    by Euiyoung Kim, Hiroki Miura, Bipasha Baruah, Siqi Chen, Gi Bin Hong, Xiaoshuo Hou, Denison Jayasooria, Taekyoon Kim, Eun Sun Lee0, Marguerite Mendell1, Masanari Sakurai2, Hyuk-Sang Sohn3, Ilcheong Yi4 ...
    In Social Economy in Asia: Realities and Perspectives, thirteen scholars from various academic disciplines analyze the reality and different understandings of the social economy in Asia. By providing detailed case studies, engaging in comparative and global discussions, and examining theoretical and policy-relevant implications, the contributors to this collection argue that the Asian social ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Community Capitalism in China

    The State, the Market, and Collectivism

    by Xiaoshuo Hou ...
    Hou proposes to end the dichotomous view of the state and the market, and capitalism and communism, by examining the local institutional innovation in three villages in China and presents community capitalism as an alternative to the neoliberal model of development. Community is both the unit of redistribution and the entity that mobilizes resources to compete in the market; collectivism creates ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

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    The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism

    Narrated by Cindy Kay, Neil Shah ...

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    26 hours 5 min

    A broad examination of the rise of nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and racism throughout the world.The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism provides expert insight into the complex, interconnected factors that are influencing patterns of human relations worldwide in a time of rising populist nationalism, intensified racial and religious tensions, and mounting ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World

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    The "vivid, provocative" untold story of how restrictive policies are preventing China from becoming the world's largest economy (Evan Osnos).Dexter Roberts lived in Beijing for two decades working as a reporter on economics, business and politics for Bloomberg Businessweek. In The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, Roberts explores the reality behind today's financially-ascendant China and pulls the ... Read more

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  • Can We Trust China?

    by Pascal Coppens ...
    By 2030, China will be the largest economy in the world. How is it that the country is overtaking the West in lots of areas? Does China have the wealthy West to thank for this? Or is it the result of a decisive collective society? Do the Chinese play by the rules? And what do the Chinese themselves think of the Party and the system?In the search for answers to these questions, opinions quickly get ... Read more

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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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  • 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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  • The Gilded Cage

    Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China

    by Ya-Wen Lei ...
    How China’s economic development combines a veneer of unprecedented progress with the increasingly despotic rule of surveillance over all aspects of lifeSince the mid-2000s, the Chinese state has increasingly shifted away from labor-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing to a process of socioeconomic development centered on science and technology. Ya-Wen Lei traces the contours of this techno ... Read more

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  • Working in China

    Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation

    Edited by Ching Kwan Lee ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    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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  • 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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