Translocal China: Linkages, Identities and the Re-imagining of Space

by Oakes; Tim

• ISBN13: 9780415379380
• ISBN10: 0415379385
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-09-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In recent decades, China has experienced an explosion of new types of mobility. Translocal China details how this mobility affects different localities and identities across China. Much previous scholarship has focused on the rapid increase in migration within China, particularly that of rural labourers moving to the booming coastal cities. This volume, however, assembles a broader array of mobilities, including finance capital, print and visual media, disease, tourists, brides, and entrepreneurs, as well as migrant workers. The contributors suggest that identities and other ties in contemporary China have not been simply uprooted from their localized cultural foundations to float free in the rapidly urbanizing reform era. Rather, people and institutions have come to be translocal, that is, to belong to more than one locality simultaneously. The volume breaks new theoretical ground by bringing together the concepts of place, space, and scale to bear on China's current transformations.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. ix
Notes on contributors	p. x
Preface	p. xii
Translocal China: an introduction	p. 1
The original translocal society and its modern fate: historical and post-reform south China	p. 36
Shanxi as translocal imaginary: reforming the local	p. 56
Openness, change, and translocality: new migrants' identification with Hainan	p. 74
Corporate locality and translocality of private enterprises in China	p. 93
Urban transformation and professionalization: translocality and rationalities of enterprise in post-Mao China	p. 109
Symbolic city/regions and gendered identity formation in south China	p. 138
"Net-moms"-a new place and a new identity: parenting discussion forums on the Internet in China	p. 155
The village as theme park: mimesis and authenticity in Chinese tourism	p. 166
Flows of heroin, people, capital, imagination, and the spread of HIV in southwest China	p. 193
Negotiating scale: Miao women at a distance	p. 213
The leaving of Anhui: the southward journey toward the knowledge class	p. 238
Index	p. 263
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