China Constructing Capitalism: Economic Life and Urban Change

Author:   Michael Keith (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Scott Lash (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK) ,  Jakob Arnoldi (Aarhus University, Denmark) ,  Tyler Rooker (University of Nottingham, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415497053


Pages:   344
Publication Date:   10 September 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Michael Keith (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Scott Lash (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK) ,  Jakob Arnoldi (Aarhus University, Denmark) ,  Tyler Rooker (University of Nottingham, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.800kg
ISBN:  

9780415497053


ISBN 10:   0415497051
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   10 September 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction 1. Chinese Thought, Cultural Theory 2. Connections, Networks, Culture: The Institutions of Chinese Capitalism 3. Relational Property and Urban Temporality: China’s Urbanisms in the City of Experts 4. Local State Capitalism? From Urban Hierarchy to City Markets 5. Chinese Firms and Political Ties 6. Property Development: Markets and Districts 7. Trading Room Ethnography: Stuck in China 8. Knowing but Not Doing: The Financial Sector in China and Institutional Reform 9. Risk Cultures: Urban Biographies 10. Shenzhen Dwelling: Arrival and Migrant Urbanisms. Bibliography

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Scott Lash, (co-) author of such books as Sociology of Postmodernism (Routledge), Reflexive Modernization, Economies of Signs and Space, The End of Organized Capitalism, Critique of information and Global Culture Industry. Lash has published 17 books, now translated in fifteen languages. He is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has acquired a working knowledge of Mandarin. Michael Keith is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths. For a decade he has been leader of Tower Hamlets Council, London. His books include After Cosmopolitanism and Geographies of Resistance. He is learning to speak Mandarin. Jakob Arnoldi is Vice-Dean of the Business School at Aarhus University, Denmark. He was until recently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lehrstuhl Ulrich Beck's at the University of Munich. He has just completed the book, Uncertain Knowledge to appear in 2008 at Cambridge Polity. Arnoldi has written widely in economic sociology. Tyler Rooker did his PhD at University of California, Santa Cruz -- an ethnography of a high-tech innovation district in Beijing. He is Research Associate on the Goldsmiths China project. He reads, speaks writes Mandarin fluently.

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