Glossy pictorial boards, 153 pp., signed by the author with a brief inscription on the front free endpaper. Mild wear near lower spine, clean text, tight binding.

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Title: Adventures in Chinese Bureaucracy: A Meta-Anthropological Saga
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Huntington, New York, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1560727764
ISBN 13: 9781560727767
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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This book is a personal saga of woe and intrigue. It recounts a seemingly endless succession of false starts, missteps, detours, dead ends, and disappointments, endured over five years, in the ultimately successful pursuit of a sponsoring unit in the People's Republic of China, for a research project on the rural industrial and artisanal enterprises of Dongyang county, Zhejiang Province. We follow the author in his veritable Confucian perambulation from ministry to ministry, bureau to bureau, institute to institute, academy to academy, office to office, university to university, until he finally manages to teach a quid pro quo with Zhejiang University. Under that agreement, the project would be carried out in collaboration with Professor Jiang Yinhuo of the department of economics. The trials, tribulations and humiliations Cooper and Jiang suffered under the close supervision of the county foreign Affairs and Public Security Offices while they gathered their "data" over two field seasons, are described in detail. One comes away with a clear sense of what it is like to live according to the "regulations governing foreigners" in China. Anyone contemplating travel to China, or business dealings with China might find this book a humorous if poignant object lesson in the maniacal persistence required to get things done in People's China.

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