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Translocal China (Routledge Studies on China in Transition) - Hardcover

 
9780415369206: Translocal China (Routledge Studies on China in Transition)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415369207 ISBN 13: 9780415369206
Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection of essays explores China’s reform era development within the concept of translocality.

A key element of spatial change in today’s China has been the unprecedented geographic mobility of millions of labour migrants, tourists, brides, entrepreneurs, and many others. But translocality doesn’t just mean people. It is crucially constituted by the circulation of capital, ideas, images, goods, styles, services, and disease to name but a few.

With contributions from well-respected China specialists, the essays focus simultaneously on mobilities and localities, drawing our attention to the multiplying forms of mobility in China whilst retaining the importance of localities in people’s lives. The book provides a clear path to understanding the importance of translocality as a concept along with concrete examples of its operation in China. Unique in approach, it is at once a study of the connections between location and culture, politics, economics, bodies, gender and technology.

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About the Author

Tim Oakes is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Louisa Schein is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415369207
ISBN 13 
9780415369206
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
288
Editor
Oakes Tim, Schein Louisa