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Author : Lisa M. Hoffman
Release : 2010-03-19
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 361/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China by : Lisa M. Hoffman
Download or read book Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China written by Lisa M. Hoffman. This book was released on 2010-03-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at urban professionals in post-Mao China as they balance social responsibility and individual achievement.
Author : Lisa M. Hoffman
Release : 2010-03-19
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 352/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China by : Lisa M. Hoffman
Download or read book Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China written by Lisa M. Hoffman. This book was released on 2010-03-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the post-Maoist era, China adopted a strategy for investing in the “quality” of its people—through education and training opportunities—that created talented labor. In her significant ethnographic study, Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China, Lisa Hoffman explains why the development of “human capital” is seen as fundamental for economic growth and national progress. She examines these new urban employees, who were deemed vital to the success of the global city in China, and who hoped for social mobility, a satisfying career, and perhaps a family. Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China addresses the emergence of this urban professional subject in Dalian, a port city in China. Hoffman identifies who these new professionals are, what choices they have made, and how they have remained closely connected with the nation—although not necessarily the Communist party—leading to a new social form she calls “Patriotic Professionalism.” Hoffman contributes to the understanding of changing urban life in China while providing an analysis of the country’s “late-socialist neoliberalism.” In the process, she asks pressing questions about how such shifts in urban life reshape cities, impact individual and family decisions, and reflect economic growth in China in tandem with “global” neoliberal practices.
Author : Cindy Isenhour
Release : 2015-03-05
Genre : Law
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 341/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sustainability in the Global City by : Cindy Isenhour
Download or read book Sustainability in the Global City written by Cindy Isenhour. This book was released on 2015-03-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban sustainability has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a beacon of hope. Yet we know little about how the concept is implemented in daily life, particularly with regard to questions of social justice and equity. This volume provides a unique and vital contribution to ongoing conversations about urban sustainability by looking beyond the promises, propaganda, and policies associated with the concept in order to explore both its mythic meanings and the practical implications in a variety of everyday contexts. The authors present ethnographic studies from cities in eleven countries and six continents. Each chapter highlights the universalized assumptions underlying interpretations of sustainability while elucidating the diverse and contradictory ways in which people understand, incorporate, advocate for, and reject sustainability in the course of their daily lives.
Author : Meg E. Rithmire
Release : 2015-10-06
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 33X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism by : Meg E. Rithmire
Download or read book Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism written by Meg E. Rithmire. This book was released on 2015-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land reforms have been critical to the development of Chinese capitalism over the last several decades, yet land in China remains publicly owned. This book explores the political logic of reforms to land ownership and control, accounting for how land development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity in China. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and archival research, the book tracks land reforms and urban development at the national level and in three cities in a single Chinese region. The study reveals that the initial liberalization of land was reversed after China's first contemporary real estate bubble in the early 1990s and that property rights arrangements at the local level varied widely according to different local strategies for economic prosperity and political stability. In particular, the author links fiscal relations and economic bases to property rights regimes, finding that more 'open' cities are subject to greater state control over land.
Author : Jie Yang
Release : 2015-11-25
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 177/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Unknotting the Heart by : Jie Yang
Download or read book Unknotting the Heart written by Jie Yang. This book was released on 2015-11-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this understudied group of workers and their experiences of being laid off, "counseled," and then reoriented to the market economy. Using fieldwork from reemployment programs, community psychosocial work, and psychotherapy training sessions in Beijing between 2002 and 2013, Yang highlights the role of psychology in state-led interventions to alleviate the effects of mass unemployment. She pays particular attention to those programs that train laid-off workers in basic psychology and then reemploy them as informal "counselors" in their capacity as housemaids and taxi drivers. These laid-off workers are filling a niche market created by both economic restructuring and the shortage of professional counselors in China, helping the government to defuse intensified class tension and present itself as a nurturing and kindly power. In reality, Yang argues, this process creates both new political complicity and new conflicts, often along gender lines. Women are forced to use the moral virtues and work ethics valued under the former socialist system, as well as their experiences of overcoming depression and suffering, as resources for their new psychological care work. Yang focuses on how the emotions, potentials, and "hearts" of these women have become sites of regulation, market expansion, and political imagination.
