This article analyzes the contemporary salience of yuanshengtai, a Chinese concept that valorizes core features similar to those of “indigeneity,” including cultural distinctiveness and …
B Goodman - Modern China, 1995 - journals.sagepub.com
Interplay between two constructions of territorial identity shaped the development of Chinese urban nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One construction …
Remote Homeland, Recovered Borderland addresses a long-ignored issue in the existing studies of community construction: How does the past failure of an ethnic people to maintain …
J Rudolph, H Lu - Urban China in Transition, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Shanghai and Taipei, two of Greater China's most vibrant cities, increasingly vie with one another for recognition as international hubs and regional economic powers. Physically …
W Sun - Translocal China, 2006 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The massive spontaneous population movement, from villages to towns, from towns to cities, from one county to another county, and from one province to another province, is part of the …
T Zhou - The Journal of Asian Studies, 2021 - read.dukeupress.edu
Located immediately north of Hong Kong, Shenzhen is China's most successful special economic zone (SEZ). Commonly known as the “social laboratory” of reform and opening …
Twentieth century China has seen local societies undergo unprecedented transformations accompanied by a remarkable continuity in state practice. In this path-breaking study of two …
PC Perdue - Locating China, 2007 - api.taylorfrancis.com
In this chapter I discuss four distinct visions of China's national space, as revealed in recent debates over economic development, political legitimation, and cultural production in …
EJ Perry - The Danwei, 2015 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Identities based upon place have long been central to urban Chinese society and politics. 1 Unlike the European or American city-dweller, who meets a person for the first time with the …