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Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China
Carlos Rojas
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Description for Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China
Hardback. This volume's contributors examine the ways the legacies of socialism continue to shape and inform China's capitalist present, contending that contemporary China is shaped by an overlapping mix of socialist and capitalist institutional strategies, political procedures, legal regulations, religious rituals, and everyday practices. Editor(s): Rojas, Carlos; Litzinger, Ralph A. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHMC; KCM; KCP; RGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present. This volume's contributors see contemporary China as haunted by the promises of capitalism, the institutional legacy of the Maoist regime, and the spirit of Marxist resistance. China's development does not result from historical imperatives or deliberate economic strategies, but from the effects of discrete practices the contributors call protocols, which stem from an overlapping mix of socialist and capitalist institutional strategies, political procedures, legal regulations, religious rituals, and everyday practices. Analyzing the process of urbanization and the ways marginalized communities and ... Read more
Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present. This volume's contributors see contemporary China as haunted by the promises of capitalism, the institutional legacy of the Maoist regime, and the spirit of Marxist resistance. China's development does not result from historical imperatives or deliberate economic strategies, but from the effects of discrete practices the contributors call protocols, which stem from an overlapping mix of socialist and capitalist institutional strategies, political procedures, legal regulations, religious rituals, and everyday practices. Analyzing the process of urbanization and the ways marginalized communities and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822361770
SKU
V9780822361770
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About Carlos Rojas
Carlos Rojas is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University. He is the author, editor, and translator of several books, most recently Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China. Ralph A. Litzinger is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and the author of ... Read more
Reviews for Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China
"This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, political science, and cultural studies, or for readers interested in post-socialism, China studies, and migration studies in general."
Fang Xu
Journal of International and Global Studies
"Ghost Protocol is an important volume that is grounded in solid research and that contributes provocative challenges to ... Read more
Fang Xu
Journal of International and Global Studies
"Ghost Protocol is an important volume that is grounded in solid research and that contributes provocative challenges to ... Read more