...E. Malcolm Carroll BOOKS The China Tangle: The American Effort in China jrom Pearl Har­ bor to the Marshall Mission. By Herbert Feis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953. Pp. x, 445. $6.00. From the feeling that the loss of China to Communism after the victory over Japan is a great...

... of production takes into account these differences within the context of three Foxconn factories. AGAINST the DAY Devi Sacchetto and Rutvica Andrijasevic Beyond China: Foxconn’s Assembly Plants in Europe E​ conomic globalization has often been regarded...

...Prasenjit Duara 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Prasenjit Duara Local Worlds: The Poetics and Politics of the Native Place in Modern China The modern preoccupation with the hometown or native place (guxiang, xiangtu in Chinese...

...Thomas Lahusen 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Thomas Lahusen Remembering China, Imagining Israel: The Memory of Difference James Clifford writes in his article ‘‘Traveling Cultures’’ that there is no such thing as a singu...

...Ralph Litzinger This essay introduces recent efforts by activists, NGOs, and academics to investigate and report on the working conditions for Chinese workers along Apple’s supply chain in China. Tracking the “suicide express” at the Foxconn factory complex in Shenzhen in 2010, the work of the Hong...

...Ngai Pun; Jenny Chan China’s capitalist transformation offers us a non-Western perspective to understand the contradictions of transnational capital mobility, the working people’s lives, and the changing role of the state. This economic and social transformation continues to require...

... and its policy of embracing globalization created the conditions for the defeat of China’s traditional urban working class. Coinciding with this moment has been the gradual emergence of a new movement of labor headed by migrant workers who have taken advantage of structural flaws in China’s development...

...Kevin Lin; Pun Ngai In June 2018, a group of Chinese truck drivers, overwhelmingly made up of rural migrant workers, staged wildcat strikes across China to demand better pay from a monopolistic, logistic, app-based platform. The strike wave intersects with two emerging phenomena in China...

...June Wang; Xinyue Yu This essay explores the three currents of user-generated content (UGC) platform development in China: one is full of improvised endeavors in the cultural production through amateur creativity; one is featured with affective laboring and networking by prosumers, who struggle...

...Arif Dirlik Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Spiritual Solutions to Material Problems: The "Socialist Ethics and Courtesy Month in China Arif Dirlik On February 28 [1981], a sunny early spring day, Party Chairman Hu Yaobang and other Party and state leaders kicked off...

...Gale W. McGee Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 A CHINA POLICY FOR THE UNITED STATES Gale W. McGee TO A WASHINGTON friend Henry Adams wrote in 1903: My statesmanship is still in China, where the last struggle for power is to come. . . . The only country now on the spot is Russia...

...Charles M. Dobbs Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 American Marines in North China, 1945-1946 Charles M. Dobbs The presence of American marines in North China in 1945 and 1946 undoubtedly altered the course of Chinese history, and certainly chilled American relations...

...Ngai-Ling Sum This paper addresses discussions about neoliberalism in China in six steps. First, it critiques the debate between Harvey (2005) and Ong (2006) over the “strange case” of neoliberalism in China as well as the variegated neoliberalization literature. Second, it suggests how a cultural...

...Ralph Litzinger 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Ralph Litzinger Theorizing Postsocialism: Reflections on the Politics of Marginality in Contemporary China Recent...

...Burton F. Beers Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Americans in China? Some Historical Perspectives on a Contemporary Enthusiasm Burton F. Beers Americans have lately suffered a great many disappointments in their hopes for entering a newly opened China. In the wake of much...

...Stephen Uhalley, Jr. Education in China Today and Prospects for American Involvement Stephen Uhalley., Jr. There is today no realm of Chinese life that better illustrates the determination of China s political leadership to continue the social revolution than what is being done in that country...

...Donald G. Gillin Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 China and the Foreigner, 1911 to 1950 Donald G. Gillin The year 1911 represents a turning point or watershed in the his­ tory of China s relations with other countries. The revolution which took place in China in the fall...

...Donald Gillin Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Donald Gillin Peasant and Communist in Modern China Reflections on the origins of the Communist-led Peasant Movement Before the formation of the Chinese Communist party in 1921, there existed in China no organized or even...

...Burton F. Beers America’s Failure in China, 1941-1950 . By Tsou Tang . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1963 . Pp. xvi , 614 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 130 The South Atlantic Quarterly motives of charity and love is to do an injustice...

...Olin D. Wannamaker The Crisis of Missions in China. By Olin D. Wannamaker, Acting Professor of English in the University of Arkansas. The Orient is in a ferment of new ideas. In one generation Ja­ pan has stepped out ofmedisevialism to the front rank of modern world powers. A swashbuckler samurai...