China constructing capitalism : economic life and urban change
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China constructing capitalism : economic life and urban change
(International library of sociology)
Routledge, 2014
- : pbk
- : hbk
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  Niigata
  Toyama
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  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
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  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
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  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-324) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
China has been growing at over ten per cent annually since 1978, but this has only come to very widespread notice in the past decade. This received wisdom about China has been largely of two types, both of which - more or less - understand China in the context of neoliberalism. The more business- or business studies-oriented literature seems to argue that if China does not adapt the rule of clear and distinct property and contract law - in short, of Western institutions - its economy will stall. The second set of voices is more clearly from the left, arguing that the Chinese economy, and city, is neo-liberal. For them, China does not diverge widely from the Anglo-American model that, from 2008, has brought the world economy to its knees.
China Constructing Capitalism takes issue with these analyses. The authors argue that it is not Western neo-liberalism that is constructing the Chinese economy, but instead that China is constructing its own version of capitalism. The two central theses of their argument are:
economic life - neo-liberal economic life is individualized and disembedded, while the China model is relational and situated
urban change - China has created a form of 'local state capitalism' which stands in contrast to neoliberal versions of the city.
This book analyses China as a 'risk culture', examining among others Chinese firms and political ties, property development, migrant urbanisms and share trading rooms. It scrutinises the ever-present shadow of the risk-averse (yet uncertainty-creating) state. China Constructing Capitalism is a must-read for social scientists, policy makers and investors.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Chinese Thought, Cultural Theory 2. Connections, Networks, Culture: The Institutions of Chinese Capitalism 3. Relational Property and Urban Temporality: China's Urbanisms in the City of Experts 4. Local State Capitalism? From Urban Hierarchy to City Markets 5. Chinese Firms and Political Ties 6. Property Development: Markets and Districts 7. Trading Room Ethnography: Stuck in China 8. Knowing but Not Doing: The Financial Sector in China and Institutional Reform 9. Risk Cultures: Urban Biographies 10. Shenzhen Dwelling: Arrival and Migrant Urbanisms. Bibliography
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