... reconceptualization and demonstrates that, similar to the urban, the rural too can be global, heterogeneous, and transformative. linhknguyen@fullerton.edu Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Vietnam transnational marriages translocal marriages global rural fractals In 2013, Người đưa...

...Yang Zhan Abstract For decades, Chinese rural migrants have been understood as engaging in dagong 打工 (working for a boss), or the selling of their waged labor, conditioned by the global production chain, dormitory regimes, and exploitive labor relations within and beyond factories. Meanwhile...

... to transform certain major cities in China into “world cities” (or “global cities”) (e.g., Timberlake et al. 2014 ; Gu, Wei, and Cook 2015 ). A municipal planning blueprint from 2008, for example, explicitly premised Beijing's urban-rural restructuring on “the goal of building an internationalised megacity...

... publication. Linh Khanh Nguyen's “Geometries of Fractals and Power: Transnational Marriages, Translocal Marriages, and Asia's Global Ruralities” kicks off a set of studies all focused on global labor migration. In the article, Nguyen lays out a relatively familiar spatial configuration—the urban and the rural...

..., or emotional inadequacies of poor, rural single mothers who abandon their children. Such claims about maternal unfitness are part of a growing neoliberal tendency in Vietnam to render the family and reproduction technical problems to be solved through the application of scientific expertise. Although rendering...

... of women flock to retail beauty counters where they consult with cosmetics sales agents about how to best enhance their appearance so as to ensure their place in the labor market. This research examines the workers of China's beauty economy through a case study of rural migrant cosmetics sales...

... project insofar as Shenzhen, and by extension Shenzheners, geo- graphically mediated the contradictions between global capitalism and the still backward, rural parts of China. Pioneering New Subject Positions My title is adapted...

... global channels of accumulation. Second, the functional divi- sion of labor inherent in Guizhou’s commercial rural crafts production is marked by gender and ethnicity. The Guizhou crafts industry is segmented into Han versus non-Han...

... working class, the majority of whom are young migrant laborers. The authors claim that in China the state played a significant role in accelerating global capital accumulation. The authors hope to make sense of the way that a state-capital alliance is shaping a new form of labor recruitment and labor use...

... in the urban villages. China's urban villages are thus contested spaces situated in the interstices between the rural and the urban, between histories of socialism and its afterlives in a globalizing present (Franceschini, Loubere, and Sorace 2019 ). Competing claims to wealth, as well as opposing visions...

... as history since then has proceeded apace. In that year the events in Beijing became a spark for the breakup of the Soviet Union and of Eastern Europe, which in turn marked the beginning of the global domination of neoliberalism in economic...

... income and resolve China’s Three Rurals,6 one should look globally and see that Mexico is about 70 percent urbanized, whereas China is only about 40 percent urbanized; Mexico’s per capita income once reached US$4,000, whereas that is a target...

... industry. Not to be dismissed as simple promotional lures to capture viewer's attention and simultaneously evade state censorship, this trend is read against the backdrop of the nation's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. These films share the same response to trade globalization...

... economy of Chinese peasant migra- tion under reform and globalization. Iwill then explore the interconnected nature of various state policies/practices and popular urban constructions of peasant migrants, their rural origins, and their urban...

... levels. The promotion of Nanhai from rural county to urban city was, therefore, only one catalyst in the multifaceted transformation of scale relationships in the city. In terms of the underlying structures, economic globalization...

... is no doubt also connected to gender’s ability to make visible the new social exigencies that marketization imposes. These include massive female unemployment, the exploitation of rural female factory laborers in highly globalized regions...

... unmaking of the Maoist peasant classes entails the emaciation of rural populations, as Yan Hairong has described, through the intensified extraction and exploitation of the migrant classes. The tu er dai is a place-based group of former peasants who have quickly elevated to the rentier class thanks...

...” of peasants and rural migrants.12 Both Anagnost and Yan have made major contributions to theorizing suzhi, arguing that it is central to neoliberal governmentality and global capitalism.13 Of particular importance has been their recognition...

...Tong Lam Abstract In spite of their informal and substandard nature, Chinese urban villages are actually part of the infrastructure that institutionalizes and normalizes China's uneven development by providing cheap dormitory-style accommodations to the country's vast army of unskilled rural...

... countries and strengthen their geopolitical position. Second, while the CCP did not funnel its big rural population into light industry, government administrators did mobilize large quantities of rural labor for another purpose. The Maoist state routinely made up for scarce domestic machinery by routing...