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• Winner of Winner of the Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthrop.

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I read this sophisticated, engaging, heartfelt book with much absorption and pleasure. Mun Young Cho has done superb fieldwork and has come up with a fascinating framework. Choosing the site of an outcast locale in China's northeast was a marvelous approach, since here one can find a very strong sample of people who were considered the elite of the past; here, too, on the outskirts of the city, one can encounter both impoverished, discarded laborers and discriminated-against peasant migrants. The juxtaposition of the surging prosperity of the nation and the searing poverty of Cho's subjects is stunning. -Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California, Irvine, author of States' Gains, Labor's Losses: China, France and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980-2000 and Contesting Citizenship in Urban China (winner of the Joseph R. Levenson Prize) The issue of downward mobility among the working class, and how this relates to interclass conflict and populism/nationalism is clearly on the policy agenda everywhere in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Mun Young Cho is particularly interested in the emotional dimensions of these interactions in relation to the distinctive and continuing resonance of understandings of 'the people' in the Maoist era and how these understandings have both continued to resonate and been transformed in the post-Mao reform era. -Alan Smart, University of Calgary, author of The Shek Kip Mei Myth

<p> The issue of downward mobility among the working class, and how this relates to interclass conflict and populism/nationalism is clearly on the policy agenda everywhere in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Mun Young Cho is particularly interested in the emotional dimensions of these interactions in relation to the distinctive and continuing resonance of understandings of 'the people' in the Maoist era and how these understandings have both continued to resonate and been transformed in the post-Mao reform era. -Alan Smart, University of Calgary, author of The Shek Kip Mei Myth

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Mun Young Cho is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Yonsei University, Seoul.

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