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..., as something unified and totalizing analogous to the political power of the modern nation-state. Neither the Australian clans that Durkheim studied nor the communities in Wenzhou are society-writ-large; they are local and plural social formations. Related is Durkheim's treatment of totems and deities...

...Shawn Shieh A Path for Chinese Civil Society: A Case Study on Industrial Associations in Wenzhou, China . By Jianxing Yu , Jun Zhou , and Hua Jiang . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2012 . xi, 212 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $64.99 (ebook). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... Capital and the Paradox of Local Upgrading in China .” Politics & Society 42 ( 2 ): 223 –52. Chin Ko-Lin . 1999 . Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine Immigration to the United States . Philadelphia : Temple University Press . China Daily . 2002 . “Wenzhou Lighter Makers Await EU Decision...

... in Chinese Religion . Seattle : University of Washington Press . Weller Robert P. 2000 . “ Living at the Edge: Religion, Capitalism, and the End of the Nation-State in Taiwan .” Public Culture , no. 31 : 477 –98. Wenzhou Daojiao Xiehui . 1999 . “Guanyu jiaqiang Daojiao huodong changsuo...

... 2021 The area around Wenzhou is a hotbed of religious belief and practice. It has been called “China's Jerusalem” because of its abundance of Christian churches. Its landscape is also filled with Buddhist temples and monasteries, local deity temples, enormous ancestral halls, and spectacular ritual...

... with two chapters detailing the vicissitude of Wenzhou migrants throughout the demolition process and the eventual rebirth of a vibrant community positioned somewhat differently vis-a-vis the state after the event. In the rest of the book the author interspersed richly ethnographic accounts of the everyday...

... (pp. 14, 19, 61, 123, 126 33). In spite of her sensitivity in this regard, much of her study is really about Zhejiang (or more exactly Wenzhou) migrants living in Zhejiangcun. Class dynamics within Zhejiangcun between Wenzhou merchants and traders from elsewhere, and between Wenzhou employers...

..., with the government's forceful encouragement, many religious sites had done so, including 498 registered “folk belief activity sites” in Pingyang 平阳, Zhejiang. 11 In Rui'an 瑞安, Wenzhou, the city government ordered Buddhist and Daoist associations to establish financial trusts and required member temples...

... immigration to the Netherlands, and the history of the Chinese associations in the Netherlands. The research design included conducting 200 interviews both in China (Wenzhou and Shenzhen) and the Netherlands, as well as other research. Although eight subgroups of Chinese immigrants are surveyed, including...

... for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 504 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES At times, I wish Li could maintain a more balanced perspective on some of the issues. For instance, in chapter 4, Li reports on the terrible working conditions in private shoe factories in Wenzhou. In chapter 6, Li tells a remarkable...

.... The research design included conducting 200 interviews both in China (Wenzhou and Shenzhen) and the Netherlands, as well as other research. Although eight subgroups of Chinese immigrants are surveyed, including ethnic Chinese from Indonesia and Vietnam, the study concentrates on immigrants from Zhejiang...

... standards of living in Wenzhou County itself a magnet for domestic migrants to work in restaurants in Europe. Such disjunctures between dreams and reality are smoothed over by selective memory, extravagance in Wenzhou, and the privileged place of migration in the imaginations of Wenzhounese. The following...

... reports on the terrible working conditions in private shoe factories in Wenzhou. In chapter 6, Li tells a remarkable story of a peasant-turned-industrialist in Suzhou, who produces fiberglass and who, Li believes, has helped create China's economic miracle. A quite dismal picture of the capitalist economy...

... chapters detailing the vicissitude of Wenzhou migrants throughout the demolition process and the eventual rebirth of a vibrant community positioned somewhat differently vis-a-vis the state after the event. In the rest of the book the author interspersed richly ethnographic accounts of the everyday lives...

... as teachers or in factories, often in such coastal economic hot spots as Shenzhen (in Guangdong) or Wenzhou (in Zhejiang). The older Chinese Hessler pays special attention to are for the most part highly educated individuals, often Western-influenced, who suffered greatly under Mao and by the early years...

... in Wenzhou, Xiamen, and Shenyang; and Sebastian Heilmann's chapter on the interaction and sequencing of local experimentation and national policy making. The first two provide a helpful overview of the ideas behind the project and some data (based on two surveys carried out in 2000 and 2005) on corporate...

..., and this altered the economic geography of Zhejiang. Raw materials were often in short supply, and patterns of trade relied on smuggling networks, but they brought prosperity to Ningbo and Wenzhou, not to mention smaller towns and villages, which benefited from being outside the Japanese-occupied area...

... reported as early as 2000 in detail the crucial exploitation of migrant workers in those model villages, followed by the English media. 3 The third, weaker case of Shangyuan is likely even more exploitative of migrant workers, since it is a small part of the quite raw capitalist market economy, Wenzhou...

... of Europe or the United States, Chinese migration to Italy originated for the most part from the same area (Wenzhou and other neighboring counties in Zhejiang Province). This gave the Italian-Chinese community a uniqueness that can be seen in Chinese media production in Italy, where “the Chinese-language...