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Transcending boundaries : Zhejiangcun : the story of a migrant village in Beijing /
Based on the author's own six years' fieldwork, this book looks at critical features of China's current social change, recounting how, against the odds, a group of migrants created their own major community outside of the State system and looking at that communities' interaction...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2005.
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| Colección: | China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
v. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of maps
- Author's preface to the abridged English version
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The study area
- 'Community', 'boundaries', guanxi and xi
- the state and the history of Zhejiangcun
- The structure of the study
- My involvement in Zhejiangcun
- 1984: Let's Go to Beijing!
- The migration trail from Wenzhou
- The origins of Zhejiangcun
- Doing it together and roadside guerrilla tactics
- Evasion and remaking tradition
- 1986-1988: Getting Street-wise
- A foot in the door
- Migrant traders and Beijing stores in alliance
- The consignment-selling model
- Capable people, 'one of our own', and people from Yongjia
- "Inapproprate to remain indefinitely"
- 1988-1992: A Breakthrough with Leather
- Jackets
- The craze for leather jackets
- Settling disputes: big players and gangs
- 'Political typhoons' and running away
- Into the 1990s: Networks Across the Country
- Diffusion migration.
- A nationwide Wenzhou migrants' business network Nationwide factor markets
- Reinventing the home clans
- 1992-1994: Government Comes to Zhejiangcun
- Retailing in big state stores
- Large-scale leasing in the private sector
- The 'Jing-Wen' Market collaborative project
- Contradictions and confrontations
- The Yueqing liaison office
- 1994: Taking Root in Beijing
- The craze for building marketplaces
- Expanding business circles and hot competition
- Residential compounds: another craze
- Big players, gangs and 'big men'
- 1995: Capitulations and Comebacks
- Jingwen Market concern group
- Liu Shiming's JO Compound development
- Cold winds in Beijing
- October 1995: an unexpected thunderclap
- Daqingli! a demolition diary
- Getting on with business
- Zhejiangcun compounds make a comeback
- Concluding Remarks
- Transcending boundaries from below
- Policy implications
- Glossary
- Glossary of place names.