The Gilded Cage : : Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China / / Ya-Wen Lei.
How China's economic development combines a veneer of unprecedented progress with the increasingly despotic rule of surveillance over all aspects of lifeSince the mid-2000s, the Chinese state has increasingly shifted away from labor-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing to a process of socio...
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Lei, Ya-Wen, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Gilded Cage : Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China / Ya-Wen Lei. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2023] 2023 1 online resource (416 p.) : 23 b/w illus. 11 tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Labor to Land and Technology -- 3 The Turn to Techno-Development -- 4 Obsolete Capital and Labor -- 5 Robotization -- 6 The Rise of Big Tech -- 7 From Factories to Platforms -- 8 Coding Elites -- 9 Rewiring Techno-State Capitalism -- 10 Conclusion -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star How China's economic development combines a veneer of unprecedented progress with the increasingly despotic rule of surveillance over all aspects of lifeSince the mid-2000s, the Chinese state has increasingly shifted away from labor-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing to a process of socioeconomic development centered on science and technology. Ya-Wen Lei traces the contours of this techno-developmental regime and its resulting form of techno-state capitalism, telling the stories of those whose lives have been transformed-for better and worse-by China's rapid rise to economic and technological dominance.Drawing on groundbreaking fieldwork and a wealth of in-depth interviews with managers, business owners, workers, software engineers, and local government officials, Lei describes the vastly unequal values assigned to economic sectors deemed "high-end" versus "low-end," and the massive expansion of technical and legal instruments used to measure and control workers and capital. She shows how China's rise has been uniquely shaped by its time-compressed development, the complex relationship between the nation's authoritarian state and its increasingly powerful but unruly tech companies, and an ideology that fuses nationalism with high modernism, technological fetishism, and meritocracy.Some have compared China's extraordinary transformation to America's Gilded Age. This provocative book reveals how it is more like a gilded cage, one in which the Chinese state and tech capital are producing rising inequality and new forms of social exclusion. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 09. Dez 2023) Economic development China. Technological innovations China. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies. bisacsh China. Upgrading the Nation: High-Modern Developmentalism in China. Ya-Wen Lei. capitalism. development. internet. platform economy. technology. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691249254?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691249254 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691249254/original |
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