The Specter of Global China
Download or Read eBook The Specter of Global China PDF written by Ching Kwan Lee and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Ching Kwan Lee |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2018-01-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780226340838 |
ISBN-13 | : 022634083X |
Rating | : 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Specter of Global China by : Ching Kwan Lee
Book excerpt: Unnatural capital: Chinese state investment and its travails in Africa -- Varieties of accumulation: profit maximization and beyond -- Labor bargains: regimes of exploitation and exclusion -- Managerial ethos: collective asceticism versus individual careerism -- Contesting capital: aspiration and capacity from below -- Eventful global China -- Appendix: an ethnographer's odyssey: the mundane and the sublime of researching China in Zambia