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ISBN 10: 0804742065
ISBN 13: 978-0804742061
Author: Li Zhang
With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migration policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China’s “floating population,” have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This massive flow of rural migrants directly challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control.
This book traces the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks within a mobile population that has broken through the constraints of the government’s household registration system. The author explores this important social change through a detailed ethnographic account of the construction, destruction, and eventual reconstruction of the largest migrant community in Beijing. She focuses on the informal privatization of space and power in this community through analyzing the ways migrant leaders build their power base by controlling housing and market spaces and mobilizing social networks.
The author argues that to gain a deeper understanding of recent Chinese social and political transformations, one must examine not only to what extent state power still dominates everyday social life, but also how the aims and methods of late socialist governance change under new social and economic conditions. In revealing the complexities and uncertainties of the shifting power and social relations in post-Mao China, this book challenges the common notion that sees recent changes as an inevitable move toward liberal capitalism and democracy.
Strangers in the City 1st Table of contents:
1. The Floating Population as Subjects
Naming and Categorizing Mobile People
The Production of Discourse About the Floating Population
Regulating Migrant Subjects Through Everyday Practices
Resisting Subjectification
Conclusion
2. Commercial Culture, Social Networks, and Migration Passages
Commercial Culture and the Wenzhou Spirit
Migration Passages
The Formation of Zhejiangcun
3. The Privatization of Space
Under the Roofs of Local Farmers
Dayuan: A Space of Their Own
Spatial Inscription of Marginality and Liminality
The Formation of Space as a Social Process
4. The Privatization of Power
Local Order and the Politics of Popular Organizations
Migrant Leadership and Local Power Dynamics
Conclusion
5. Reconfigurations of Gender, Work, and Household
“Household” as a Flexible Social Field
Middle- and Lower-Income Households
Wealthy Households
The Predicament of Working Girls
Coping Tactics and Everyday Resistance
Conclusion
6. Contesting Crime and Order
Crime and Representation
An Ethnography of Crime and Its Origins
Conclusion
7. The Demolition of Zhejiangcun
Panic and Social Conflict on the Eve of the Demolition
The Motivations
The Campaign Mobilization
Unpacking the State
Popular Resistance
Native-Place Alliances
The Demolition
8. Displacement and Revitalization
Coping with Relocation
Migrant Leadership at Work
“New Bottle, Old Wine”
Closer Collaboration or Deeper Control?
Conclusion
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