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positions (2024) 32 (4): 847–872.
Published: 01 November 2024
[email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Chinese skilled trade migrants transnational-translocal Bourdieusian capitals theory class Over the past twenty-five years, scholars have explored multiple aspects of the cross-border ties that Chinese migrants have maintained...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 917–941.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., and political issues are now infused with an anxiety about Chinese influence. While headlines about “political interference” and “trade wars” have proliferated in recent years, this article explores two arenas that have arguably received less public attention—namely, the role of Chinese migrants and Chinese...
Journal Article
positions (2016) 24 (1): 253–279.
Published: 01 February 2016
... Filipinas.41 The transmission of Chinese language skills to Indone-
sian migrants has its practical function of facilitating communication. Yet, it
also carries an underlying purpose of consolidating the status hierarchy by
subordinating the servant...
Journal Article
positions (2019) 27 (4): 773–798.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Yun Li; Rong Rong Through the autobiographical poetry of contemporary Chinese female peasant workers, this article studies how Chinese migrant workers are dis-identified by the identifying hukou system and thus become bodies of non-identity drifting in cities. Driven by the urban desire intrigued...
Journal Article
positions (2024) 32 (4): 771–796.
Published: 01 November 2024
... postpandemic, in the era of President Xi's Chinese dream, top-down state initiatives by the People's Republic of China (PRC) continue to expand energetically into the global field with the goal of reviving China's historical status as a great world power, while ordinary Chinese migrants and businesses have...
Journal Article
positions (2024) 32 (4): 895–916.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Pál Nyíri; Fanni Beck Abstract Since the 1980s, China has become the source of a new type of international migration. In the liberal world of the 1990s, Chinese migrants became the epitome of “flexible citizenship” aimed at maximizing economic advantages. In the postliberal world of which...
Journal Article
positions (2023) 31 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2023
... industrial age, like a battle cry. — Zheng Xiaoqiong 郑小琼 Stories of Migrant Women Workers (2012) Toward the end of 2017, the Chinese poet Zheng Xiaoqiong 郑小琼 received an unexpected email from Frederik Bous, a German composer. The composer wanted to write a symphonic piece about the nocturnal...
Journal Article
positions (2016) 24 (1): 155–177.
Published: 01 February 2016
...
Introduction
The new millennium was momentous for China’s beauty industry. The
term beauty economy (in Chinese, meinu jingji) entered common usage with
the country’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001...
Journal Article
positions (2009) 17 (3): 617–642.
Published: 01 August 2009
... through the migrant body
is doubly punitive if the migrant body also happens to be female: Chinese
positions 17:3 Winter 2009 626
family life conspires with the rural-urban divide to produce a strong desire...
Journal Article
positions (1999) 7 (3): 653–666.
Published: 01 August 1999
..., pointing out that current levels of world trade and
finance as a proportion of total economic output are hardly unprecedented
as a global phenomenon. However, even if the volume of these transac-
tions has historical parallels, their speed...
Journal Article
positions (2016) 24 (3): 669–692.
Published: 01 August 2016
...
During a rally organized at the Seoul Immigration Service in May 2008
to denounce the state government for detaining Torna Limbu, then the
newly elected chairperson of the Migrants’ Trade Union (MTU),2 I heard
an activist state the above...
Journal Article
positions (2014) 22 (4): 877–906.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to pursue profit. These popular materials invite the public to reconceptualize the relationship between individuals and society and in this sense constitute a significant cultural strategy for governing the population. Tracing the Chinese variations of the global logic...
Journal Article
positions (2011) 19 (2): 229–256.
Published: 01 May 2011
... the collective experience of a people in tran-
sit, or the desire of new characters — like the entertainer, domestic worker,
Moro — to move elsewhere, and even feature film representations of the
Filipino American and Chinese Filipino...
Journal Article
positions (2024) 32 (4): 797–820.
Published: 01 November 2024
... system is signaled by the building of physical and digital infrastructures in the Belt and Road Initiatives, resulting in global trade wars on multiple fronts (Pun 2022 ). Accompanying this new Chinese transnationalism is a new project of subject making: an increasing number of young people, especially...
Journal Article
positions (2016) 24 (2): 555–582.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Ethnic Chinese Community
Wasana Wongsurawat
Introduction
Anecdote: Unsung Heroes of an Unlikely Nationalist Narrative
True to its remarkable record of diplomatic ingenuity and incredibly skilled
double talk, one of the most impressive achievements...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (1): 211–239.
Published: 01 February 2012
...; educational background; trade or professional skills; sources of
income abroad and within China; nancial records (including monthly sal-
ary); names, birthdates, and details on family members; and whether or not
one planned to return to the country...
Journal Article
positions (1999) 7 (2): 307–342.
Published: 01 May 1999
... peasant women earned in the laborious
and highly skilled work of applying wax for batik dying, my first impulse
was, of course, to check the price tag. The bathrobe was going for a cool
$150. By my calculation, the Guizhou household...
Journal Article
positions (2003) 11 (1): 135–181.
Published: 01 February 2003
... of blackAmerica prior to
the Russo-Japanese war forced blackAmericans to make do and theorize
the Japanese and Japanese Americans in light of years of interactions with
Chinese migrants who had fled Fujian and Guangdong for the lure of San...
Journal Article
positions (2003) 11 (3): 735–763.
Published: 01 August 2003
.... As will become
evident below, most Chinese Americans lack the language skills, political
connections, and cultural knowledge to conduct visits on their own. The
cultural tours they participate in are influenced by contemporary identity...
Journal Article
positions (2011) 19 (1): 133–157.
Published: 01 February 2011
... of Chinese students, as
the big cities have large numbers of language and trade schools, universities,
and companies. Thus, government policies as well as formal and informal
social barriers all channel Chinese immigrants to the urban centers. Today...
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