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22 produkter
Specter of Global China
Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa
Häftad, 2018
316 kr
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China has recently emerged as one of Africa's top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent's booming construction market. Even though Africa has become a popular destination of foreign investment from around the world, China has …
Reclaiming Chinese Society
The New Social Activism
Av You-tien Hsing, Ching Kwan Lee
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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Reclaiming Chinese Society analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasizes economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, this volume argues for the centrality of …
Reclaiming Chinese Society
The New Social Activism
Av You-tien Hsing, Ching Kwan Lee
Häftad, 2009
793 kr
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Reclaiming Chinese Society analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasizes economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, this volume argues for the centrality of …
Working in China
Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation
Inbunden, 2006
2510 kr
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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 …
Working in China
Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation
Häftad, 2006
822 kr
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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 …
Gender and the South China Miracle
Two Worlds of Factory Women
Häftad, 1998
400 kr
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Both Yuk-ling, a busy Hong Kong mother of two, and Chi-ying, a young single woman from a remote village in northern China, work in electronics factories owned by the same foreign corporation, manufacturing identical electronic components. After a decade of job growth and increasing foreign …
Against the Law
Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt
Häftad, 2007
306 kr
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This study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on remarkable fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, "Against the Law" …
Social Question in the Twenty-First Century
A Global View
Av Jan Breman, Kevan Harris m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
306 kr
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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, these are the focus of the Social Question. In 1942 William Beveridge called them the “giant evils” …
Gender and the South China Miracle
Two Worlds of Factory Women
E-bok, 1998
458 kr
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Both Yuk-ling, a busy Hong Kong mother of two, and Chi-ying, a young single woman from a remote village in northern China, work in electronics factories owned by the same foreign corporation, manufacturing identical electronic components. After a decade of job growth and increasing foreign …
Against the Law
Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt
E-bok, 2007
520 kr
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This study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world''s most dynamic and populous country. Based on remarkable fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, Against the Law …
Forever Hong Kong
A Global City's Decolonization Struggle
Inbunden, 2025
404 kr
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An on-the-ground account of the dramatic 2019 Hong Kong protests, showing how they represent the latest stage of a decades-old decolonization struggle.Long known for its glamour and affluence, Hong Kong shocked the world in 2019 when millions of its citizens took to the streets in protest. For more …
From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization
Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China
Av Sarosh Kuruvilla, Ching Kwan Lee m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
603 kr
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In the thirty years since the opening of China's economy, China's economic growth has been nothing short of phenomenal. At the same time, however, its employment relations system has undergone a gradual but fundamental transformation from stable and permanent employment with good benefits (often …
Hong Kong
Global China's Restive Frontier
Häftad, 2022
302 kr
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How did Hong Kong transform itself from a 'shoppers' and capitalists' paradise' into a 'city of protests' at the frontline of a global anti-China backlash? CK Lee situates the post-1997 China-Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of 'global China.' Beijing deploys a bundle of power …
Hong Kong
Global China''s Restive Frontier
E-bok, 2022
287 kr
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How did Hong Kong transform itself from a ''shoppers'' and capitalists'' paradise'' into a ''city of protests'' at the frontline of a global anti-China backlash? CK Lee situates the post-1997 China–Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of ''global China.'' Beijing deploys a bundle of power …
Hong Kong
Global China''s Restive Frontier
E-bok, 2022
294 kr
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How did Hong Kong transform itself from a ''shoppers'' and capitalists'' paradise'' into a ''city of protests'' at the frontline of a global anti-China backlash? CK Lee situates the post-1997 China–Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of ''global China.'' Beijing deploys a bundle of power …
Reclaiming Chinese Society
The New Social Activism
Av Ching Kwan Lee, You-tien Hsing
E-bok, 2009
935 kr
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Reclaiming Chinese Society analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasizes economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, this volume argues for the centrality of …
Reclaiming Chinese Society
The New Social Activism
Av Ching Kwan Lee, You-tien Hsing
E-bok, 2009
935 kr
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Reclaiming Chinese Society analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasizes economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, this volume argues for the centrality of …
Take Back Our Future
An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
Inbunden, 2019
1694 kr
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In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-day occupation movement in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement. The essays presented here by a team of experts with deep local knowledge ask: how …
Take Back Our Future
An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
Häftad, 2019
443 kr
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In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-day occupation movement in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement. The essays presented here by a team of experts with deep local knowledge ask: how …
Southern Interregnum
Remaking Hegemony in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa
Av Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Karl von Holdt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1227 kr
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How do governing elites in the global South attempt to remake hegemony in a conjuncture of durable crisis? This is the question at the core of Southern interregnum, a comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa. Working with a Gramscian notion …
Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution
The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memory in Reform China
Av Ching Kwan Lee, Guobin Yang
Inbunden, 2007
1505 kr
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Popular memories of the revolutionary past have become a political and cultural force in China. Traumatic memory and active criticism make up part of this wave, but so does nostalgia for collective responsibility and for feelings of freedom and progress. Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution is the …
Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution
The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memory in Reform China
Av Ching Kwan Lee, Guobin Yang
Häftad, 2007
354 kr
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Popular memories of the revolutionary past have become a political and cultural force in China. Traumatic memory and active criticism make up part of this wave, but so does nostalgia for collective responsibility and for feelings of freedom and progress. Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution is the …
