Global Connectivity and Local Transformation: A Micro Approach to Studying the Effect of Globalization on Shanghai

Sun, Jiaming

ISBN 10: 0761840087 / ISBN 13: 9780761840084

Published by University Press of America, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Global Connectivity and Local Transformation: A Micro Approach to Studying the Effect of Globalization on Shanghai
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761840087
• ISBN 13: 9780761840084
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Global Connectivity and Local Transformation conceptualizes global connectivity as a powerful but varied mechanism that links local people to the global society. Professor Jiaming Sun explores the massive global connectivity that has been woven in two decades in Shanghai.

About the Author

Jiaming Sun is teaching in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Texas A & M University-Commerce. He was a professor in the Sociology Department, International Politics Department in Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He has published a number of papers on globalization, urban residential life, cultural study, and youth problems in China, Taiwan, Singapore, the United States, and the United Kingdom over the last twenty years.