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Knowing China

A Twenty-First Century Guide

By: Frank N. Pieke

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Knowing China

A Twenty-First Century Guide

By: Frank N. Pieke

Contemporary China appears both deceptively familiar and inexplicably different. China is a cauldron of forms of entrepreneurship, social organization, ways of life and governance that are at once new and unique, recognizably Chinese and generically modern. In analyzing and interpreting these developments, Frank N. Pieke adopts a China-centric perspective to move beyond western preoccupations, desires, or fears. Each chapter starts with a key question about China, showing that such questions and assumptions are often based on a misunderstanding or misconstruction of what China is today. Pieke explores twenty-first-century China as a unique kind of neo-socialist society, combining features of state socialism, neoliberal governance, capitalism and rapid globalization. Understanding this society not only helps us to know China better, but takes us beyond the old dichotomies of West versus East, developed versus developing, tradition versus modernity, democracy versus dictatorship, and capitalism versus socialism.

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237

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Cambridge University Press

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1316720829

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9781316720820

Internal and International Migration

Chinese Perspectives

By: Hein Mallee,Frank N. Pieke

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Internal and International Migration

Chinese Perspectives

By: Hein Mallee,Frank N. Pieke

Comparing migration in China itself to Chinese migration to Europe, this book critically assesses received ideas, perceptions and theories concerning internal and international migration.Comparing migration in China itself to Chinese migration to Europe, this book critically assesses received ideas, perceptions and theories concerning internal and international migration. The book argues for the emergence of a Chinese world system in which internal and international mobility is a central and heterogenous feature. The book presents an unusually rich case study of migration and transnationalism of migrants from southern Zhejiang province in Chinese and European cities, studies of rural-urban migration in booming southern China, implementation of the birth control policy among migrants in Beijing, discrimination and stereotypisation of rural migrants in Shanghai, contract worker teams in Beijing, and forced urban-rural migration during the Cultural Revolution.

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374

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Routledge

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1136814442

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9781136814440

The Ordinary & The Extraordinary

An Anthropological Study of Chinese Reform and the 1989 People's movement in Beijing

By: Frank N Pieke

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The Ordinary & The Extraordinary

An Anthropological Study of Chinese Reform and the 1989 People's movement in Beijing

By: Frank N Pieke

First Published in 1996. This study is the outcome of eight-months' fieldwork in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China (PRC), from 8 November 1988 to 17 June 1989. The original purpose of the fieldwork had been to acquire a grass-roots perspective on the dynamics of Chinese state socialist society under the impact of ten years of reform. This was extended to include People's Movement. The central questions this book therefore tries to answer are: how can these two different fieldwork experiences be reconciled with each other, and what do they tell us about the dynamics of Chinese culture and society?

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300

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Routledge

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1136167617

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9781136167614

Transnational Chinese

Fujianese Migrants in Europe

By: Frank N. Pieke

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Transnational Chinese

Fujianese Migrants in Europe

By: Frank N. Pieke

This book investigates the origins and mechanics of recent Chinese migration, focusing on the work and life of Fujianese migrants in the United Kingdom, Hungary, and Italy, and exploring the many transnational spaces that connect Fujianese across Europe, the United States, and China.

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276

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Stanford University Press

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0804749957

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9780804749954

The Good Communist

Elite Training and State Building in Today's China

By: Frank N. Pieke

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The Good Communist

Elite Training and State Building in Today's China

By: Frank N. Pieke

This book examines how the Chinese Communist Party retains control over China's rulers through their education and training.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521199905

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9780521199902

The Good Communist

Elite Training and State Building in Today's China

By: Frank N. Pieke

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The Good Communist

Elite Training and State Building in Today's China

By: Frank N. Pieke

Has China become just another capitalist country in a socialist cloak? Will the Chinese Communist Party's rule survive the next ten years of modernization and globalization? Frank Pieke investigates these conundrums in this fascinating account of how government officials are trained for placement in the Chinese Communist Party. Through in-depth interviews with staff members and aspiring trainees, he shows that while the Chinese Communist Party has undergone a radical transformation since the revolutionary years under Mao, it is still incumbent upon cadres, who are selected through a highly rigorous process, to be ideologically and politically committed to the party. It is the lessons learnt through their teachers that shape the political and economic decisions they will make in power. The book offers unique insights into the structure and the ideological culture of the Chinese government, and how it has reinvented itself over the last three decades as a neo-socialist state.

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1139482130

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Book's by Frank N. Pieke

Knowing China

Knowing China

Internal and International Migration

Internal and International Migration

The Ordinary & The Extraordinary

The Ordinary & The Extraordinary

Transnational Chinese

Transnational Chinese

The Good Communist

The Good Communist

The Good Communist

The Good Communist

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