... and microprocesses of social life in relation to urban inequality. Drawing on fifteen months of ethnographic research conducted between 2009 and 2011 and in-depth interviews with twenty-two South Korean young adults, the author analyzes how a host of young adults strive for their belonging as they confront their own...

... with the conservative recovery of an ideal rural community, in an attempt to overcome social inequality and the urban exploitation of the rural caused by capital accumulation. qz83@duke.edu Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 new villages the Nationalist state labor alienation urban village...

...Xia Zhang In recent years, China's labor market deregulation and increasing unemployment and underemployment have hit Chinese youth particularly hard. How are Chinese urban youth responding to these new labor conditions? This article argues that they are not only creating new forms of work...

..., they all parody the existing class inequality in Japanese society through gratuitous, chauvinistic depictions of sex and violence in the urban underground, offering a view into the lives of hustlers and gangsters, streetwalkers and street lawyers...

... for obtaining Shenzhen legal residence, this essay maps the geotectonic inequality- the institutionalization of the rural-urban division of labor-on which the integration of the PRC into the world capitalist sys- tem has been constructed...

... (Suzhi 195. 15. Andrew Kipnis, “Dissecting Homo Neoliberalis: Suzhi Discourse and (Non-)Neoliberalism in the PRC” (n.d 16. The greatest degree of inequality in China is between rural and urban citizens. Far from...

... . “ Land Development, Inequality, and Urban Villages in China .” International Journal of Urban and Regional Studies 33 , no. 4 : 885 – 89 . Wu Jieh-min . 2010 . “ Rural Migrant Workers and China's Differential Citizenship: A Comparative Institutional Analysis .” In One Country, Two...

... . 2017 . “ Precarious Seoul: Urban Inequality and Belonging of Young Adults in South Korea .” positions 25 , no. 4 : 745 – 67 . Jung Sook Kyung , and Norton Bonny . 2002 . “ Language Planning in Korea: The New Elementary English Program .” In Language Policies in Education...

... marginalization and alienation. Jung peeks behind Seoul’s facade to reveal the tenuous nature of belong- ing under conditions of increasing urban inequality in Asia. “Precarious Seoul” uses the cases of three young adults living in new forms of substan...

... in the field of China studies for her ethnography of rural-to-urban migration in China. Her research on the cultural politics of inequality can be found in her books, including Maid in China: Media, Morality and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries (2009), Subaltern China: Rural Migrants, Media and Cultural...

...-­driven development and persistent rural-­ urban inequality that the stage for transnational market-­based antitraffick- ing efforts that bind the state, private sector, nonprofit organizations, and migrant workers has been set. Transnational...

..., rural-­urban inequality for the environment, health, and everyday experiences will be discussed. Everyday Hygiene Ayi was always concerned that her house would seem dirty (meji in Shang dialect) to me. The usual phrase she employed while I...

... and Jakimów 2022 : 462; Friedman 2022 : 32)—but also how widely Lü’s and Wang's ideas diverge, even as they both target global capitalist hegemony as the primary cause of social inequalities in China and elsewhere. While insisting that “China's urbanization and industrialization can't be reversed...

... of postsocialist transformation are seen most clearly in China's urban villages. The retreat of the language of class, which once upheld the ethos of egalitarianism and collective belonging by the Chinese state, has compelled us to elucidate the ongoing dynamics of dispossession and inequality as they unfold...

... for residents there. In a public speech, Li called urban slums “a debt accumulated through history and a scar left on the city” and claimed that China would move to tackle the issue of urban inequality exemplified by “high-rise buildings and slums standing side by side” (Lei 2017 ). After Li's visit...

... Bulldozer Urbanism in Shanghai .” Urban Studies 58 , no. 6 : 1141 – 57 . Liu Zhilin , and Wang Yujun . 2014 . “ Housing Access, Sense of Attachment, and Settlement Intention of Rural Migrants in Chinese Cities: Findings from a Twelve-City Migrant Survey .” In Housing Inequality...

... within the larger transformations gripping Vietnam today. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Trung Hoà- Nhân Chính: Constructing a New Urban Center in Hanoi. Photo by Christina Schwenkel Neo- Geomancy and Real Estate Fever in Postreform Vietnam Erik Harms Urban Geomancers...

... in resource command immediately turned into inequalities in benefits. For this reason, urban industrial reform did not merely involve the question of state ownership but became a problem of the whole national economic structure. In these complex...

...: their anxiety about emerging class inequality and consequent hunger for log- ics that render it technical (a problem to be solved through scienti c mod- els promoting economic growth) and moral (the prosperous deserve their comfortable status). Writing...

... our intellectual reflexes and our theories are not sufficient to grasp the social inequality that is restructuring the conditions of our everyday life. In China a new class system is recoding cultural practices. Right under the eyes of cultural...