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The Specter of Global China

Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa

By: Ching Kwan Lee

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The Specter of Global China

Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa

By: Ching Kwan Lee

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. Among major foreign investors in Africa, China has stirred the most fear, hope, and controversy. For many, the specter of a Chinese neocolonial scramble is looming, while for others China is Africa’s best chance at economic renewal. Yet, global debates about China in Africa have been based more on rhetoric than on empirical evidence. Ching Kwan Lee’s The Specter of Global China is the first comparative ethnographic study that addresses the critical question: Is Chinese capital a different kind of capital? Offering the clearest look yet at China’s state-driven investment in Africa, this book is rooted in six years of extensive fieldwork in copper mines and construction sites in Zambia, Africa’s copper giant. Lee shadowed Chinese, Indian, and South African managers in underground mines, interviewed Zambian miners and construction workers, and worked with Zambian officials. Distinguishing carefully between Chinese state capital and global private capital in terms of their business objectives, labor practices, managerial ethos, and political engagement with the Zambian state and society, she concludes that Chinese state investment presents unique potential and perils for African development. The Specter of Global China will be a must-read for anyone interested in the future of China, Africa, and capitalism worldwide.

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Gender and the South China Miracle

Two Worlds of Factory Women

By: Ching Kwan Lee

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Gender and the South China Miracle

Two Worlds of Factory Women

By: Ching Kwan Lee

An excellent comparative ethnography of gender and factory work in South China."--Ruth Milkman, author of Farewell to the Factory

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0520211251

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Against the Law

Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt

By: Ching Kwan Lee

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Against the Law

Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt

By: Ching Kwan Lee

This powerful 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 dissects the world of Chinese workers today and finds a rising tide of labor unrest mostly hidden from the world's attention. Intense working-class agitation is being spurred by massive unemployment of Mao's socialist proletariat in the northern rustbelt and by the exploitation of millions of young workers in the southern sunbelt. Providing a broad comparative political and economic analysis of the vast mosaic of this labor struggle together with unprecedented fine-grained ethnographic detail, the book portrays the multi-faceted humanity of the Chinese working class as their stories unfold in bankrupt state factories and global sweatshops, in crowded dormitories and remote villages, at heroic moments of street protests as well as in quiet disenchantment with the corrupt officialdom and the fledgling legal system.

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Univ of California Press

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0520250974

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9780520250970

Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution

The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memory in Reform China

By: Ching Kwan Lee

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Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution

The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memory in Reform China

By: Ching Kwan Lee

A comprehensive study of contemporary memories of China's revolutionary epoch, from the time of Japanese imperialism through the Cultural Revolution. This volume examines the memories of a range of social groups, including disenfranchised workers and rural women, who have often been neglected in scholarship.

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Stanford University Press

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0804758530

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Against the Law

Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt

By: Ching Kwan Lee

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Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt

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Gender and the South China Miracle

Two Worlds of Factory Women

By: Ching Kwan Lee

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Two Worlds of Factory Women

By: Ching Kwan Lee

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 investment in Hong Kong and South China, both women are also participating in the spectacular economic transformation that has come to be called the South China miracle. Yet, as Ching Kwan Lee demonstrates in her unique and fascinating study of women workers on either side of the Chinese-Hong Kong border, the working lives and factory cultures of these women are vastly different. In this rich comparative ethnography, Lee describes how two radically different factory cultures have emerged from a period of profound economic change. In Hong Kong, "matron workers" remain in factories for decades. In Guangdong, a seemingly endless number of young "maiden workers" travel to the south from northern provinces, following the promise of higher wages. Whereas the women in Hong Kong participate in a management system characterized by "familial hegemony," the young women in Guangdong find an internal system of power based on regional politics and kin connections, or "localistic despotism." Having worked side-by-side with these women on the floors of both factories, Lee concludes that it is primarily the differences in the gender politics of the two labor markets that determine the culture of each factory. Posing an ambitious challenge to sociological theories that reduce labor politics to pure economics or state power structures, Lee argues that gender plays a crucial role in the cultures and management strategies of factories that rely heavily on women workers. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999. 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 o

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052092004X

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Hong Kong

Global China's Restive Frontier

By: Ching Kwan Lee

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Hong Kong

Global China's Restive Frontier

By: Ching Kwan Lee

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 mechanisms – economic statecraft, patron-clientelism, and symbolic domination – around the world, including Hong Kong. This Chinese power project triggers a variety of countermovements from Asia to Africa, ranging from acquiescence and adaptation to appropriation and resistance. In Hong Kong, reactions against the totality of Chinese power have taken the form of eventful protests, which, over two decades, have broadened into a momentous decolonization struggle. More than an ideological conflict between a liberal capitalist democratizing city and its Communist authoritarian sovereign, the Hong Kong story, stunning and singular in its many peculiarities, offers lessons about China as a global force. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108906648

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The Specter of Global China

Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa

By: Ching Kwan Lee

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Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa

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Marketing Death

Culture and the Making of a Life Insurance Market in China

By: Cheris Shun-ching Chan

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Marketing Death

Culture and the Making of a Life Insurance Market in China

By: Cheris Shun-ching Chan

Marketing Death is the first book to offer a penetrating sociological analysis of the emergence of a life insurance market outside of the Euro-American context. Drawing on rich ethnographic data, it documents the processes and micro-politics through which local cultures shape the way a market is formed and, hence, sheds light on the dynamics through which modern capitalist enterprises are diffused to regions with different cultural traditions."--Publisher's description.

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OUP USA

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0195394070

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Baguazhang (Emei Baguazhang)

Chinese Internal Martial Arts : Theory and Applications

By: Shou-Yu Liang,Jwing-Ming Yang,Wen-Ching Wu

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Baguazhang (Emei Baguazhang)

Chinese Internal Martial Arts : Theory and Applications

By: Shou-Yu Liang,Jwing-Ming Yang,Wen-Ching Wu

This comprehensive guide explains the principles and practices essential for Bagua training.

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0940871300

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Tai Chi Chuan

24 and 48 Postures with Martial Applications

By: Shou-Yu Liang,Wen-Ching Wu,Denise Breiter-Wu

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24 and 48 Postures with Martial Applications

By: Shou-Yu Liang,Wen-Ching Wu,Denise Breiter-Wu

24 and 48 postures with martial applications.

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Book's by Ching Kwan Lee

The Specter of Global China

The Specter of Global China

Gender and the South China Miracle

Gender and the South China Miracle

Against the Law

Against the Law

Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution

Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution

Against the Law

Against the Law

Gender and the South China Miracle

Gender and the South China Miracle

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

The Specter of Global China

The Specter of Global China

Marketing Death

Marketing Death

Baguazhang (Emei Baguazhang)

Baguazhang (Emei Baguazhang)

Tai Chi Chuan

Tai Chi Chuan

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