The Specter of Global China

The Specter of Global China

Author: Ching Kwan Lee

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 9780226340838

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 242

View: 256

Unnatural capital: Chinese state investment and its travails in Africa -- Varieties of accumulation: profit maximization and beyond -- Labor bargains: regimes of exploitation and exclusion -- Managerial ethos: collective asceticism versus individual careerism -- Contesting capital: aspiration and capacity from below -- Eventful global China -- Appendix: an ethnographer's odyssey: the mundane and the sublime of researching China in Zambia
Global China
Language: en
Pages: 430

Global China

Authors: Tarun Chhabra, Rush Doshi, Ryan Hass, Emilie Kimball
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-22 - Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

The global implications of China’s rise as a global actor In 2005, a senior official in the George W. Bush administration expressed the hope that China would emerge as a “responsible stakeholder” on the world stage. A dozen years later, the Trump administration dramatically shifted course, instead calling China a
Global China as Method
Language: en
Pages: 137

Global China as Method

Authors: Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-08-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Is China part of the world? Based on much of the political, media, and popular discourse in the West the answer is seemingly no. Even after four decades of integration into the global socioeconomic system, discussions of China continue to be underpinned by a core assumption: that the country represents
The Specter of Global China
Language: en
Pages: 256

The Specter of Global China

Authors: Ching Kwan Lee
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-03 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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
Global China
Language: en
Pages: 412

Global China

Authors: Pak Nung Wong, Yu-shek Joseph Cheng
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-26 - Publisher: World Scientific

After two decades since the disintegration of Soviet Union in 1991, the largest and the most populist socialist state — the People's Republic of China — does not only manage to stay intact, but has also emerged as the second largest economy in the world. Moreover, its political, diplomatic, military
Becoming Activists in Global China
Language: en
Pages:

Becoming Activists in Global China

Authors: Andrew Junker
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-21 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Becoming Activists in Global China is the first purely sociological study of the religious movement Falun Gong and its resistance to the Chinese state. The literature on Chinese protest has intensively studied the 1989 democracy movement while largely ignoring opposition by Falun Gong, even though the latter has been more