Zhang The Labor of Reinvention

Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55129-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Lin Zhang explores how the everyday labor of entrepreneurial reinvention is remaking China. She tells the stories of people from diverse class, gender, and age backgrounds across rural, urban, and transnational settings in rich detail, vividly conveying how the contradictions of entrepreneurialism have played out in China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhang, Lin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: The Cult of Entrepreneurialism

1. The Labor of Entrepreneurial Reinvention

Part I. City in Transition
2. Navigating the Investor State: Elite and Grassroots Entrepreneurs in Zhongguancun
3. From Science Park to Coworking: ZGC’s Contested Spaces of Innovation

Part II. Back to the Countryside
4. The Platformization of Family Production: Reinventing Rural Familism and Governance for the E-Commerce Era
5. Moving Beyond Shanzhai? The Contradictions of Entrepreneurial Reinvention in Rural China

Part III. Transnational Encounters
6. Between Individualization and Retraditionalization: Reinventing Self and Work Through Platform-Based Daigou
Epilogue: Toward a China Paradigm

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zhang Lin:
Lin Zhang (USC Annenberg School for Communication, Ph.D.) is assistant professor in the department of communication at the University of New Hampshire. Her work has been published in a wide range of publications, including New Media and Society, International Journal of Communication, Feminist Media Studies, and China Information.Lin Zhang is assistant professor of communication and media studies at the University of New Hampshire.