Oakes / Schein Translocal China

Linkages, Identities and the Reimagining of Space
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-134-22403-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection of essays explores China’s reform era development within the concept of translocality.

A key element of spatial change in today’s China has been the unprecedented geographic mobility of millions of labour migrants, tourists, brides, entrepreneurs, and many others. But translocality doesn’t just mean people. It is crucially constituted by the circulation of capital, ideas, images, goods, styles, services, and disease to name but a few.

With contributions from well-respected China specialists, the essays focus simultaneously on mobilities and localities, drawing our attention to the multiplying forms of mobility in China whilst retaining the importance of localities in people’s lives. The book provides a clear path to understanding the importance of translocality 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oakes, Tim

Schein, Louisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Oakes is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Louisa Schein is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA