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Gao Village Revisited : The Life of Rural People in Contemporary China /

This is a close study of Gao village twenty years after the author, an anthropologist and native of Gao village, wrote his original ethnography Gao Village. It combines ethnographic analysis, personal vignettes, and a number of fascinating stories, which presents a convincing yet complex picture of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gao, Mobo C. F., 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : why Gao Village?
  • A critical overall view of China since the late 1990s
  • A brief survey of Gao Village since the late 1990s
  • The resourcefulness and entrepreneurship of the rural Chinese
  • Gao Wenshu : from troublemaker to entrepreneur
  • Gao Changxian, Gao Mingxia, and the background of their hotel business
  • The Gao family clan and its hotel businesses
  • The poor in Gao Village : Gao Lati
  • The real estate boom and Gao Changqi, the entrepreneur rubbish collector
  • Change and continuity : conflicts of values
  • The reach of the state in Gao Village
  • The reinvention of tradition and the impact of lineage identity on local governance
  • The future of Gao Village and rural China.