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By June Hee Kwon
Published: 13 October 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2746-1
... migration neoliberalism Korean Chinese history privatized China post–Cold War South Korea ...
Book Chapter

By June Hee Kwon
Published: 13 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027461-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2746-1
... and opening up of its economy that China initiated in the 1980s. In particular, the introduction maps how the wave of Korean Chinese migration to South Korea starting in the 1990s was driven by the new political economy: neoliberal, democratic South Korea and privatized, self-sufficiency-requiring China...
Published: 25 March 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374589-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7458-9
... From the big business of Mexican industrial manufacturing to the small kiosks of the nation’s rampant informal sector, China’s impact is acute. In 2013 Mexico reported a trade deficit with China of $56 billion, and that over 900,000 manufacturing jobs had been lost to Chinese competition...
Published: 05 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374022-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7402-2
... feature through a detailed ethnographic study of a relatively minor “event.” The protagonists of the event are a group of unskilled workers in Liaoning Province, Northeast China, who are enterprising, risk taking, legally savvy, and financially shrewd. They paid a large amount of money to a private agent...
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By Adrian H. Hearn
Published: 25 March 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374589-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7458-9
... is forcing public, private, and civic sectors to interact in new ways. In Cuba, nascent trade and investment agreements with China have provoked a grudging awareness that uncompromising state control is poorly suited to post–Cold War rationalism. In Mexico, unrelenting Chinese commercial competition has...
Published: 05 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374022-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7402-2
... As authors take to the Internet to discuss formerly taboo topics, their texts articulate private desires within a public space, highlighting central concerns regarding the relationship between social oppression and the expression of sexual identity in contemporary China. In this chapter, I use...
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By Carlos Rojas, Ralph A. Litzinger
Published: 05 August 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7402-2
... This chapter examines hydropower development on Southwest China’s Nu River. Drawing on the notion of the moral economy, I illustrate how different constituent groups—including government agencies and hydropower corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and communities facing displacement...
Published: 22 March 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392774-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9277-4
Published: 05 February 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374619-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7461-9
... the Chinese revolution attracted the participation and sacrifices of youth. Situating youth in the context of the revolution and its narratives, Cai explores the ways in which representations of youth realized the formation of the modern subject/subjectivity and the extent to which the supposed private issues...