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New Masters, New Servants

Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China

By: Hairong Yan

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New Masters, New Servants

Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China

By: Hairong Yan

On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their jobs in one of China’s large cities. As the photo caption indicated, the image represented the “transformation of migrant women”; the women’s “transformation” was signaled by their status as consumers. New Masters, New Servants is an ethnography of class dynamics and the subject formation of migrant domestic workers. Based on her interviews with young women who migrated from China’s Anhui province to the city of Beijing to engage in domestic service for middle-class families, as well as interviews with employers, job placement agencies, and government officials, Yan Hairong explores what these migrant workers mean to the families that hire them, to urban economies, to rural provinces such as Anhui, and to the Chinese state. Above all, Yan focuses on the domestic workers’ self-conceptions, desires, and struggles. Yan analyzes how the migrant women workers are subjected to, make sense of, and reflect on a range of state and neoliberal discourses about development, modernity, consumption, self-worth, quality, and individual and collective longing and struggle. She offers keen insight into the workers’ desire and efforts to achieve suzhi (quality) through self-improvement, the way workers are treated by their employers, and representations of migrant domestic workers on television and the Internet and in newspapers and magazines. In so doing, Yan demonstrates that contestations over the meanings of migrant workers raise broad questions about the nature of wage labor, market economy, sociality, and postsocialism in contemporary China.

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Duke University Press

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0822388650

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9780822388654

China Experiments

From Local Innovations to National Reform

By: Ann M. Florini,Hairong Lai,Yeling Tan

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China Experiments

From Local Innovations to National Reform

By: Ann M. Florini,Hairong Lai,Yeling Tan

All societies face a key question: how to empower governments to perform essential governmental functions while constraining the arbitrary exercise of power. This balance, always in flux, is particularly fluid in today's China. This insightful book examines the changing relationship between that state and its society, as demonstrated by numerous experiments in governance at subnational levels, and explores the implications for China's future political trajectory. Ann Florini, Hairong Lai, and Yeling Tan set their analysis at the level of townships and counties, investigating the striking diversity of China's exploration into different governance tools and comparing these experiments with developments and debates elsewhere in the world. China Experiments draws on multiple cases of innovation to show how local authorities are breaking down traditional models of governance in responding to the challenges posed by the rapid transformations taking place across China's economy and society. The book thus differs from others on China that focus on dynamics taking place at the elite level in Beijing, and is unique in its broad but detailed, empirically grounded analysis. The introduction examines China's changing governance architecture and raises key overarching questions. It addresses the motivations behind the wide variety of experiments underway by which authorities are trying to adapt local governance structures to meet new demands. Chapters 2–5 then explore each type of innovation in detail, from administrative streamlining and elections to partnerships in civil society and transparency measures. Each chapter explains the importance of the experiment in terms of implications for governance and draws upon specific case studies. The final chapter considers what these growing numbers of experiments add up to, whether China is headed towards a stronger more resilient authoritarianism or evolving towards its own version of democracy, and suggests a serie

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Rowman & Littlefield

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081572201X

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9780815722014

New Masters, New Servants

Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China

By: Hairong Yan

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Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China

By: Hairong Yan

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The Chinese are the Worst?

Human Rights and Labor Practices in Zambian Mining

By: Barry Sautman,Hairong Yan

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Human Rights and Labor Practices in Zambian Mining

By: Barry Sautman,Hairong Yan

Examines conditions at China Nonferrous Metal Mining Company (CNMC) and Zambia's mining enterprises, and empirically evaluates practices implicating rights related to safety, wages, hours, unions, and job security in order to evaluate assertions by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that CNMC engages in labor abuses and is a "bad employer" compared to Western-based foreign investors.

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1932330399

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9781932330397

Social Economy in China and the World

By: Ngai Pun,Ben Hok-bun Ku,Hairong Yan,Anita Koo

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Social Economy in China and the World

By: Ngai Pun,Ben Hok-bun Ku,Hairong Yan,Anita Koo

This book examines the concept of social economy in China and around the world. It offers to rethink space, economy and community in a trans-border context which moves us beyond both planned and market economies. The chapters address theoretical issues, critical reflections and case studies on the practice of social economy in the context of glo

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Routledge

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0367598477

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9780367598471

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New Masters, New Servants

New Masters, New Servants

China Experiments

China Experiments

New Masters, New Servants

New Masters, New Servants

The Chinese are the Worst?

The Chinese are the Worst?

Social Economy in China and the World

Social Economy in China and the World

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