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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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]
2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 23 b/w illus. 11 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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